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Getting a tick in LaTeX

So you need to show something is good in your LaTeX document, and want a tick (or a cross)? The pifont package gives you access to ZapfDingbats, which has lots of neat characters as shown in the documentation (along with dinglists and other nifty features).

So, after \usepackage{pifont} a quick \newcommand{\tick}{\ding{52}} gives you \tick for all your ticking needs!

The MarvoSym package also has some Winding type things, like laundry instructions (?).

file this under the "easy when you know how but otherwise takes you at least half an hour" category...

posted at: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:16 | in /linux/tips | permalink | add comment (3 others)

Posted by TWiStErRob at Thu Sep 18 02:49:16 2008

You can use a standard $\surd$ command coming with I think amssym package.

Posted by Stefan at Sat Jul 25 00:03:04 2009

Thanks for this, used it initially but then found that there's also \checkmark (add \usepackage{amsfonts}) to your preamble) which provides a finer tick.

Posted by Jevon at Fri Jan 29 13:41:04 2010

I found the following symbols were awesome for ticks and crosses:

\usepackage{amsfonts}
\newcommand{\tickYes}{\checkmark}
\usepackage{pifont}
\newcommand{\tickNo}{\hspace{1pt}\ding{55}}

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