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    From CTAN Announcements@manfred@ctan.org to ctan-ann on Tue Apr 14 09:33:09 2026
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    Scott Pakin submitted an update to the

    The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List

    package.

    Version: 16.0
    License: lppl1.3c

    Summary description: Symbols accessible from LaTeX

    Announcement text: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List is a document that organizes over 25000 symbols accessible from
    LaTeX by topic and package. The aim is to make it easy to find symbols and learn how to incorporate
    them into a LaTeX document. An index further helps locate symbols of interest.

    Much has changed since the last release of the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List over two years ago.
    Most notably, the list presents thousands of new symbols from a handful of additional packages.
    Smaller improvements include refactoring a few tables into more meaningful pieces, updating a few
    tables to cover recently added or renamed symbols, moving brand icons and logos into their own
    chapter, and making numerous small improvements to the index to better categorize the symbols
    appearing in the document. The accompanying SYMLIST text file now uses two columns to present a
    mapping from user-visible control sequences to the document's internal representation.

    While not visible to the reader of the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List, compilation has been sped up
    immensely by leveraging the Ninja build system. The document builds with LuaLaTeX whereas previous
    versions required pdfLaTeX. In fact, the companion Raw Font Tables document now requires LuaLaTeX,
    which it exploits to show font tables for OpenType and TrueType fonts that define more than 256
    characters.

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    This package is located at
    https://mirrors.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive

    More information is at
    https://ctan.org/pkg/comprehensive


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    Thanks for the upload.

    For the CTAN Team
    Manfred Lotz


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