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For a comparison table I am using the symbols of wasysym which gives me an empty circle, a full circle and also half filled circle.

However I would rather use a more fine grained sale and for this I need also a quarterly filled circle and a circle which is filled by 3/4.

Does anyone know if such symbols exist in any LaTeX package?

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    @percusse and voters for closing: did you check that the required symbols are there? They aren't. – egreg Dec 08 '12 at 13:19
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    @egreg It's in the universal package under \bauquarter macro – percusse Dec 08 '12 at 13:37
  • Or \manfilledquartercircle from manfnt to be combined with an empty circle. – percusse Dec 08 '12 at 13:42
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    for whatever it's worth, these symbols are in unicode as U+25D4 and U+25D5, so should be in the xits and stix fonts. – barbara beeton Dec 08 '12 at 14:02
  • @percusse There's only one of the possible 3/4 filled circles (of course one can rotate it), but there's no 1/4 filled one. And you might have added the package and the macro to the comment. – egreg Dec 08 '12 at 14:03
  • I apologize for my laziness. egreg is right. The required info was missing. – percusse Dec 08 '12 at 16:03

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Not the best macro in the world, but perhaps something like

\usepackage{tikz}

\newcommand{\pie}[1]{%
\begin{tikzpicture}
 \draw (0,0) circle (1ex);\fill (1ex,0) arc (0:#1:1ex) -- (0,0) -- cycle;
\end{tikzpicture}%
}

And an example

Hello world \pie{90} \pie{120} \pie{240} \pie{270}

Output:

enter image description here

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    +1 nicely done! It's generally best to post a complete MWE though; just remember it for next time :) – cmhughes Dec 08 '12 at 15:58
  • Thanks, however I would need the circle to work "clockwise". Your solution is elegant, however it has its origin not at the top of the circle and it goes counter-clockwise... I tried to modify your macro, however it always did mess up the arc... can you help me out? – Conman Dec 08 '12 at 23:10
  • @Conman Just put -#1 inside the macro or enter the angles with a minus sign e.g. \pie{-120} – percusse Dec 09 '12 at 00:15
  • @percusse: Yes, you are right, that changes the dircetion into clock-wise, however the "origin" is still not at the top but instead at 3 o'clock... any idea how to fix this, too? – Conman Dec 09 '12 at 07:40
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    Got it myself: \fill[rotate=90] does that. Thanks to you all! – Conman Dec 09 '12 at 08:32
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Circle with upper right quadrant black: ◔ Unicode hexadecimal: 0x25d4 In block: Geometric Shapes

There are probably symbols that black each of the four quadrants separately, or you can rotate this one: see Is there a readymade symbol for a 90 degrees rotated \Bowtie? for rotation code.

I found the answer with http://shapecatcher.com/.

Edit: @Barbara Beeton comments above ... these symbols are in unicode as U+25D4 and U+25D5, so should be in the xits and stix fonts. Then the answer here may help: Is it already possible to use the STIX fonts?

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