Tips & Tricks: Including Symbols, Superscripts, Subscripts & Line Breaks

Symbols

Symbols can be added to the label column via unicode. Here is a quick reference to commonly used symbols.

#> 
#> Attaching package: 'huxtable'
#> The following object is masked from 'package:dplyr':
#> 
#>     add_rownames
SymbolTextual DescriptionUnicode
←Left arrow\u2190
→Right arrow\u2192
≤Less-than or equal to\u2264
≥Greater-than or equal to\u2265
≠Not equal to\u2260
±Plus-minus sign\u00b1
αAlpha\u03b1
βBeta\u03b2
μMu\u03bc
«Non-breaking space\u00ab

Here is an example call to tidytlg::gentlg() that will add the symbols to the label column.

df <- tibble::tibble(
  label = c("\u2264", "\u2265"),
  col1 = c("100", "200")
)

tidytlg::gentlg(df,
  file = "demo"
)

Superscripts and Subscripts

Superscripts and Subscripts can be added to the label column via unicode.

df <- tibble::tibble(
  label = c(
    "This is a superscript a{\\super a}",
    "This is a subscript b{\\sub b}"
  ),
  col1 = c("100", "200")
)

tidytlg::gentlg(df,
  file = "demo"
)

Superscripts and Subscripts can be added to the footnotes via unicode as well.

df <- tibble::tibble(
  label = c(
    "This is a superscript a{\\super a}",
    "This is a subscript b{\\sub b}"
  ),
  col1 = c("100", "200")
)

tidytlg::gentlg(df,
  file = "demo",
  footers = "This is a footnote superscript{\\super a}"
)

Inline RTF Line Breaks

Sometimes you need add a line break into your RTF. Inserting ‘\\\n’ into your string will add your line break for you.

df <- tibble::tibble(
  label = c("Bodysystem \\\n Preferred Term"),
  col1 = c("100")
)

tidytlg::gentlg(df,
  file = "demo"
)

If you need a line break followed by a tab, just add in ‘\\li180’.

df <- tibble::tibble(
  label = c("Bodysystem\\\n\\li180Preferred Term"),
  col1 = c("100")
)

tidytlg::gentlg(df,
  file = "demo"
)