[SOLVED] Inserting microseconds symbol in LaTex

kushalkoolwal · 08-14-2009, 03:37 PM

I am trying to write something like:

Code:

200 micro-seconds

but I am not sure how to insert the symbol for micro-seconds.

I did some googling and I came up with "\us" and "\mu" but doesn't look like they work. Do I need to include any package to use these commands?

jlinkels · 08-14-2009, 07:22 PM

Use this:

Code:

The dreaded $\mu$ character as in $\mu$s

Maybe you forgot to surround the \mu with '$' which you should do when using math symbols inline.

I pasted this line into the document on page 8 of the "Not so short introduction to Latex" and it showed up exactly as you want.

jlinkels

Code:

documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
% define the title
\author{H.~Partl}
\title{Minimalism}
\begin{document}
% generates the title
\maketitle
% insert the table of contents
\tableofcontents
\section{Some Interesting Words}
Well, and here begins my lovely article.
The dreaded $\mu$ character as in $\mu$s
\section{Good Bye World}
\ldots{} and here it ends.
\end{document}

kushalkoolwal · 08-14-2009, 08:04 PM

Thanks worked like a charm!! You were right, I was missing "$".

Stefan_K · 10-16-2009, 09:32 AM

$\mu$s would result in italic \mu but upright s. Possibilities to get an upright symbol:

Code:

\usepackage{textcomp}
\textmu s

Code:

\usepackage{upgreek}
$\upmu$s

Further there are LaTeX packages specialized in typesetting units, for instance siunitx.

Stefan

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