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  2. From: RATZKA@phyth1.ngate.uni-regensburg.de (Wolfgang Ratzka)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
  4. Subject: Re: LaTeX macro
  5. Message-ID: <MAILQUEUE-101.921117100336.256@rphnw2.ngate.uni-regensburg.de>
  6. Date: 18 Nov 92 02:05:50 GMT
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  11. > Date:       Mon, 16 Nov 92 18:00:23 CST
  12. > From:       "Maurizio Ferconi" <PHYSFERC@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
  13. > Reply-to:   "Maurizio Ferconi" <PHYSFERC@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
  14. > To:         INFO-TeX@shsu.edu
  15. > Subject:    LaTeX macro
  16.  
  17. > I would like to know how to produce in LaTeX a symbol  which
  18. > combines the greater than sign together with the \sim tilted
  19.                                     not easily possible ^^^^^^
  20. > in order to represent  what roughly speaking is: greater
  21. > than or almost equal to..
  22. These are mine:
  23. %
  24. \newcommand{\lapprox}{%
  25. \mathrel{%
  26. \setbox0=\hbox{$<$}
  27. %\setbox1=\hbox{$\sim$}
  28. \raise0.6ex\copy0\kern-\wd0
  29. \lower0.65ex\hbox{$\sim$}
  30. }}
  31. %
  32. \newcommand{\gapprox}{%
  33. \mathrel{%
  34. \setbox0=\hbox{$>$}
  35. %\setbox1=\hbox{$\sim$}
  36. \raise0.6ex\copy0\kern-\wd0
  37. \lower0.65ex\hbox{$\sim$}
  38. }}
  39. %
  40. > Thanks in advance,
  41. >                    maurizio
  42. You're welcome
  43.  
  44.                                                        Wolfgang Ratzka
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