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From: hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: How do I make a greater than approx (> over ~)?
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Date: 13 Nov 90 17:45:33 GMT
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In-Reply-To: myers@ut-emx.uucp's message of 13 Nov 90 00:12:33 GMT

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