man@whizzle.stanford.edu (Michael Nowak) (11/13/90)
I want it so that I can use it like I would a \le sign, roughly the same size, well centered vertically and horizontally, etc., etc. By the way, I'm using Textures on the Mac. I don't know if that's significant or not. Thanks in advance. Mike Nowak
myers@ut-emx.uucp (Eric Myers) (11/13/90)
% \simge and \simle make the "greater than about" and the "less % than about" symbols with spacing as relations. \def\simge{\mathrel{% \rlap{\raise 0.511ex \hbox{$>$}}{\lower 0.511ex \hbox{$\sim$}}}} \def\simle{\mathrel{ \rlap{\raise 0.511ex \hbox{$<$}}{\lower 0.511ex \hbox{$\sim$}}}} -- Eric Myers "Frankie say '\relax'" Center for Relativity, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin myers@emx.utexas.edu | myers@utaphy.bitnet | myers@ut-emx.UUCP
edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) (11/13/90)
In the AMS fonts, it is called \gtrsim, code 1326. It is in the font msam10, at position 26 hex. -- Gerald A. Edgar Department of Mathematics Bitnet: EDGAR@OHSTPY The Ohio State University Internet: edgar@mps.ohio-state.edu Columbus, OH 43210 ...!{att,pyramid}!osu-cis!shape.mps.ohio-state.edu!edgar
hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen) (11/14/90)
In article <39611@ut-emx.uucp> myers@ut-emx.uucp (Eric Myers) writes:
% \simge and \simle make the "greater than about" and the "less
% than about" symbols with spacing as relations.
\def\simge{\mathrel{%
\rlap{\raise 0.511ex \hbox{$>$}}{\lower 0.511ex \hbox{$\sim$}}}}
\def\simle{\mathrel{
\rlap{\raise 0.511ex \hbox{$<$}}{\lower 0.511ex \hbox{$\sim$}}}}
Or better yet, if you find you need to do this kind of things very
often, get AMSFonts. These symbols are in the msam font.
- Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@imf.unit.no>
Division of Mathematical Sciences
The Norwegian Institute of Technology
N-7034 Trondheim, NORWAY
mrm@cfa.HARVARD.EDU (Michael Merrifield) (11/15/90)
From article <MAN.90Nov12143849@whizzle.stanford.edu>, by man@whizzle.stanford.edu (Michael Nowak): > I want it so that I can use it like I would a \le sign, roughly the same > size, well centered vertically and horizontally, etc., etc. > If you don't have the AmS-TeX fonts, here's a set of definitions (courtesy of Bill Press) that does the trick: \newbox\grsign \setbox\grsign=\hbox{$>$} \newdimen\grdimen \grdimen=\ht\grsign \newbox\simlessbox \newbox\simgreatbox \setbox\simgreatbox=\hbox{\raise.5ex\hbox{$>$}\llap {\lower.5ex\hbox{$\sim$}}}\ht1=\grdimen\dp1=0pt \setbox\simlessbox=\hbox{\raise.5ex\hbox{$<$}\llap {\lower.5ex\hbox{$\sim$}}}\ht2=\grdimen\dp2=0pt \def\simgreat{\mathrel{\copy\simgreatbox}} \def\simless{\mathrel{\copy\simlessbox}} then just use \simgreat and \simless just like any other math relations