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Planned maintenance scheduled April 17/18, 2019 at 00:00UTC (8:00pm US/Eastern)The mysteries of mathpaletteHow to make a larger “dot”A comma decimal separator that is bigger than a dotTo write dot product cdot is not working

I'm trying to replicate the dot that my professor uses in his notes for the dot product between vectors but I am having a hard time doing so. This is what it looks like:

enter image description here

I have tried a couple of things. cdot is too thin

asdf

and bullet is too thick

enter image description here

and using Large with cdot gives an error. Moreover, after digging through the list of symbols I cannot find a nice medium between cdot and bullet.

How can I get a dot closest to the first picture?

edited 9 mins ago

Svend Tveskæg

20.9k1053143

asked Mar 25 '15 at 22:09

sardoj

313135

I use bullet for dot products.

– k-l
Mar 22 '17 at 0:13

add a comment |

I'm trying to replicate the dot that my professor uses in his notes for the dot product between vectors but I am having a hard time doing so. This is what it looks like:

enter image description here

I have tried a couple of things. cdot is too thin

asdf

and bullet is too thick

enter image description here

and using Large with cdot gives an error. Moreover, after digging through the list of symbols I cannot find a nice medium between cdot and bullet.

How can I get a dot closest to the first picture?

edited 9 mins ago

Svend Tveskæg

20.9k1053143

asked Mar 25 '15 at 22:09

sardoj

313135

I use bullet for dot products.

– k-l
Mar 22 '17 at 0:13

add a comment |

I'm trying to replicate the dot that my professor uses in his notes for the dot product between vectors but I am having a hard time doing so. This is what it looks like:

enter image description here

I have tried a couple of things. cdot is too thin

asdf

and bullet is too thick

enter image description here

and using Large with cdot gives an error. Moreover, after digging through the list of symbols I cannot find a nice medium between cdot and bullet.

How can I get a dot closest to the first picture?

edited 9 mins ago

Svend Tveskæg

20.9k1053143

asked Mar 25 '15 at 22:09

sardoj

313135

I'm trying to replicate the dot that my professor uses in his notes for the dot product between vectors but I am having a hard time doing so. This is what it looks like:

enter image description here

I have tried a couple of things. cdot is too thin

asdf

and bullet is too thick

enter image description here

and using Large with cdot gives an error. Moreover, after digging through the list of symbols I cannot find a nice medium between cdot and bullet.

How can I get a dot closest to the first picture?

math-mode symbols

edited 9 mins ago

Svend Tveskæg

20.9k1053143

asked Mar 25 '15 at 22:09

sardoj

313135

edited 9 mins ago

Svend Tveskæg

20.9k1053143

asked Mar 25 '15 at 22:09

sardoj

313135

edited 9 mins ago

Svend Tveskæg

20.9k1053143

edited 9 mins ago

Svend Tveskæg

20.9k1053143

edited 9 mins ago

Svend Tveskæg

20.9k1053143

asked Mar 25 '15 at 22:09

sardoj

313135

asked Mar 25 '15 at 22:09

sardoj

313135

asked Mar 25 '15 at 22:09

sardoj

313135

I use bullet for dot products.

– k-l
Mar 22 '17 at 0:13

add a comment |

I use bullet for dot products.

– k-l
Mar 22 '17 at 0:13

I use bullet for dot products.

– k-l
Mar 22 '17 at 0:13

add a comment |

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May be you find a better name like dotp or something like that.

documentclassscrartcl
usepackagegraphicx

makeatletter
newcommand*bigcdotmathpalettebigcdot@.5
newcommand*bigcdot@[2]mathbinvcenterhboxscalebox#2$m@th#1bullet$
makeatother

begindocument
$a bigcdot b$
enddocument

enter image description here

answered Mar 25 '15 at 22:19

Manuel

21.6k846109

2

@Manuel (or anyone who understands this), could you clarify a couple of points about your macros? 1. What are the two parameters to mathpalette? (I only "see" one, unless "bigcdot@" and ".5" are separate in which case I don't understand why mathpalette is called. 2. What ends up being the first parameter (#1) to bigcdot@, used right before bullet?

– dedded
Feb 3 '16 at 13:22

1

That's how mathpalette works, the #1 that is passed to bigcdot@ is the current math style (displaystyle, textstyle, scriptstyle, or scriptscriptstyle depending on the case).Basically what mathpalette does is taking two arguments, and passing the currentstyle in first place and the second argument after it, so mathpaletefoowhatever ends up being for instance foodisplaystylewhatever, so you have to define foo accordingly.

– Manuel
Feb 3 '16 at 14:06

@sardoj See The mysteries of mathpalette

– egreg
Nov 28 '16 at 21:11

add a comment |

Here is a simple trick which needs the amsmath package.

[
a boldsymbolcdot b = 0
]

and the result is

enter image description here

edited Nov 28 '16 at 21:12

egreg

735k8919343257

answered Nov 28 '16 at 21:05

H. R.

441415

Interesting solution; but bf has been deprecated for 20+ years. Besides, align* serves no purpose here, where equation* would be the correct environment.

– egreg
Nov 28 '16 at 21:09

@egreg: Yeah! I am new to LaTex! Sorry for those! :) I changed the answer a little bit. Let me know if it is OK. :)

– H. R.
Nov 28 '16 at 21:11

This answer has a downside that the other one has not: if used within the scope of a mathversionbold (or boldmath, if you prefer) declaration, the dot cannot become any bolder. I agree, nonetheless, that it is an interesting solution.

– GuM
Nov 28 '16 at 21:58

add a comment |

The following example extends Manuel's answer in two ways:

The vertical position is fixed to center the symbol vertically around the
math axis as cdot and bullet do.

The width of the symbol is not the scaled down width of the bullet
(with scaled down side bearings), but a little larger width of cdot.

The scale and width factor can be configured by macros bigcdot@scalefactor and bigcdot@widthfactor.

documentclassscrartcl
usepackagecolor
usepackagegraphicx

makeatletter
newcommand*bigcdot% Check if undefined
DeclareRobustCommand*bigcdot%
 mathbinmathpalettebigcdot@%

newcommand*bigcdot@scalefactor.5
newcommand*bigcdot@widthfactor1.15
newcommand*bigcdot@[2]%
 % #1: math style
 % #2: unused
 sbox0$#1vcenter$% math axis
 sbox2$#1cdotm@th$%
 hbox to bigcdot@widthfactorwd2%
 hfil
 raiseht0hbox%
 scaleboxbigcdot@scalefactor%
 lowerht0hbox$#1bulletm@th$%
 %
 %
 hfil
 %

makeatother

begindocument
[ a bigcdot b ]
%
% Comparison with cdot and bullet
[ a cdot b bigcdot c bullet d ]
%
% Different math styles
[ a bigcdot b quad
 scriptstyle a bigcdot b quad
 scriptscriptstyle a bigcdot b
]
%
% Visualization of the math axis
[
 sbox0$-cdotbigcdotbullet-$
 rlapcopy0%
 vcenter%
 hbox%
 textcolorred%
 vrule widthwd0 height .05pt depth .05ptrelax
 %
 %
 
]
enddocument

edited May 9 '18 at 16:59

answered Mar 31 '18 at 23:23

Heiko Oberdiek

232k19563913

I love it! And some more words to exceed the character limit.

– Simon
Nov 13 '18 at 19:10

add a comment |

-1

a texttextbullet b = 0

How about to use a text symbol instead?

At least it is simple!

enter image description here

answered Mar 20 '18 at 9:38

GyuHyeon Choi

1216

You should at least use a binop here.

– John Dorian
Apr 1 '18 at 9:13

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4 Answers
4

active

oldest

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May be you find a better name like dotp or something like that.

documentclassscrartcl
usepackagegraphicx

makeatletter
newcommand*bigcdotmathpalettebigcdot@.5
newcommand*bigcdot@[2]mathbinvcenterhboxscalebox#2$m@th#1bullet$
makeatother

begindocument
$a bigcdot b$
enddocument

enter image description here

answered Mar 25 '15 at 22:19

Manuel

21.6k846109

2

@Manuel (or anyone who understands this), could you clarify a couple of points about your macros? 1. What are the two parameters to mathpalette? (I only "see" one, unless "bigcdot@" and ".5" are separate in which case I don't understand why mathpalette is called. 2. What ends up being the first parameter (#1) to bigcdot@, used right before bullet?

– dedded
Feb 3 '16 at 13:22

1

That's how mathpalette works, the #1 that is passed to bigcdot@ is the current math style (displaystyle, textstyle, scriptstyle, or scriptscriptstyle depending on the case).Basically what mathpalette does is taking two arguments, and passing the currentstyle in first place and the second argument after it, so mathpaletefoowhatever ends up being for instance foodisplaystylewhatever, so you have to define foo accordingly.

– Manuel
Feb 3 '16 at 14:06

@sardoj See The mysteries of mathpalette

– egreg
Nov 28 '16 at 21:11

add a comment |

May be you find a better name like dotp or something like that.

documentclassscrartcl
usepackagegraphicx

makeatletter
newcommand*bigcdotmathpalettebigcdot@.5
newcommand*bigcdot@[2]mathbinvcenterhboxscalebox#2$m@th#1bullet$
makeatother

begindocument
$a bigcdot b$
enddocument

enter image description here

answered Mar 25 '15 at 22:19

Manuel

21.6k846109

2

@Manuel (or anyone who understands this), could you clarify a couple of points about your macros? 1. What are the two parameters to mathpalette? (I only "see" one, unless "bigcdot@" and ".5" are separate in which case I don't understand why mathpalette is called. 2. What ends up being the first parameter (#1) to bigcdot@, used right before bullet?

– dedded
Feb 3 '16 at 13:22

1

That's how mathpalette works, the #1 that is passed to bigcdot@ is the current math style (displaystyle, textstyle, scriptstyle, or scriptscriptstyle depending on the case).Basically what mathpalette does is taking two arguments, and passing the currentstyle in first place and the second argument after it, so mathpaletefoowhatever ends up being for instance foodisplaystylewhatever, so you have to define foo accordingly.

– Manuel
Feb 3 '16 at 14:06

@sardoj See The mysteries of mathpalette

– egreg
Nov 28 '16 at 21:11

add a comment |

May be you find a better name like dotp or something like that.

documentclassscrartcl
usepackagegraphicx

makeatletter
newcommand*bigcdotmathpalettebigcdot@.5
newcommand*bigcdot@[2]mathbinvcenterhboxscalebox#2$m@th#1bullet$
makeatother

begindocument
$a bigcdot b$
enddocument

enter image description here

answered Mar 25 '15 at 22:19

Manuel

21.6k846109

May be you find a better name like dotp or something like that.

documentclassscrartcl
usepackagegraphicx

makeatletter
newcommand*bigcdotmathpalettebigcdot@.5
newcommand*bigcdot@[2]mathbinvcenterhboxscalebox#2$m@th#1bullet$
makeatother

begindocument
$a bigcdot b$
enddocument

enter image description here

answered Mar 25 '15 at 22:19

Manuel

21.6k846109

answered Mar 25 '15 at 22:19

Manuel

21.6k846109

answered Mar 25 '15 at 22:19

Manuel

21.6k846109

answered Mar 25 '15 at 22:19

Manuel

21.6k846109

2

@Manuel (or anyone who understands this), could you clarify a couple of points about your macros? 1. What are the two parameters to mathpalette? (I only "see" one, unless "bigcdot@" and ".5" are separate in which case I don't understand why mathpalette is called. 2. What ends up being the first parameter (#1) to bigcdot@, used right before bullet?

– dedded
Feb 3 '16 at 13:22

1

That's how mathpalette works, the #1 that is passed to bigcdot@ is the current math style (displaystyle, textstyle, scriptstyle, or scriptscriptstyle depending on the case).Basically what mathpalette does is taking two arguments, and passing the currentstyle in first place and the second argument after it, so mathpaletefoowhatever ends up being for instance foodisplaystylewhatever, so you have to define foo accordingly.

– Manuel
Feb 3 '16 at 14:06

@sardoj See The mysteries of mathpalette

– egreg
Nov 28 '16 at 21:11

add a comment |

2

@Manuel (or anyone who understands this), could you clarify a couple of points about your macros? 1. What are the two parameters to mathpalette? (I only "see" one, unless "bigcdot@" and ".5" are separate in which case I don't understand why mathpalette is called. 2. What ends up being the first parameter (#1) to bigcdot@, used right before bullet?

– dedded
Feb 3 '16 at 13:22

1

That's how mathpalette works, the #1 that is passed to bigcdot@ is the current math style (displaystyle, textstyle, scriptstyle, or scriptscriptstyle depending on the case).Basically what mathpalette does is taking two arguments, and passing the currentstyle in first place and the second argument after it, so mathpaletefoowhatever ends up being for instance foodisplaystylewhatever, so you have to define foo accordingly.

– Manuel
Feb 3 '16 at 14:06

@sardoj See The mysteries of mathpalette

– egreg
Nov 28 '16 at 21:11

@Manuel (or anyone who understands this), could you clarify a couple of points about your macros? 1. What are the two parameters to mathpalette? (I only "see" one, unless "bigcdot@" and ".5" are separate in which case I don't understand why mathpalette is called. 2. What ends up being the first parameter (#1) to bigcdot@, used right before bullet?

– dedded
Feb 3 '16 at 13:22

That's how mathpalette works, the #1 that is passed to bigcdot@ is the current math style (displaystyle, textstyle, scriptstyle, or scriptscriptstyle depending on the case).Basically what mathpalette does is taking two arguments, and passing the currentstyle in first place and the second argument after it, so mathpaletefoowhatever ends up being for instance foodisplaystylewhatever, so you have to define foo accordingly.

– Manuel
Feb 3 '16 at 14:06

@sardoj See The mysteries of mathpalette

– egreg
Nov 28 '16 at 21:11

add a comment |

Here is a simple trick which needs the amsmath package.

[
a boldsymbolcdot b = 0
]

and the result is

enter image description here

edited Nov 28 '16 at 21:12

egreg

735k8919343257

answered Nov 28 '16 at 21:05

H. R.

441415

Interesting solution; but bf has been deprecated for 20+ years. Besides, align* serves no purpose here, where equation* would be the correct environment.

– egreg
Nov 28 '16 at 21:09

@egreg: Yeah! I am new to LaTex! Sorry for those! :) I changed the answer a little bit. Let me know if it is OK. :)

– H. R.
Nov 28 '16 at 21:11

This answer has a downside that the other one has not: if used within the scope of a mathversionbold (or boldmath, if you prefer) declaration, the dot cannot become any bolder. I agree, nonetheless, that it is an interesting solution.

– GuM
Nov 28 '16 at 21:58

add a comment |

Here is a simple trick which needs the amsmath package.

[
a boldsymbolcdot b = 0
]

and the result is

enter image description here

edited Nov 28 '16 at 21:12

egreg

735k8919343257

answered Nov 28 '16 at 21:05

H. R.

441415

Interesting solution; but bf has been deprecated for 20+ years. Besides, align* serves no purpose here, where equation* would be the correct environment.

– egreg
Nov 28 '16 at 21:09

@egreg: Yeah! I am new to LaTex! Sorry for those! :) I changed the answer a little bit. Let me know if it is OK. :)

– H. R.
Nov 28 '16 at 21:11

This answer has a downside that the other one has not: if used within the scope of a mathversionbold (or boldmath, if you prefer) declaration, the dot cannot become any bolder. I agree, nonetheless, that it is an interesting solution.

– GuM
Nov 28 '16 at 21:58

add a comment |

Here is a simple trick which needs the amsmath package.

[
a boldsymbolcdot b = 0
]

and the result is

enter image description here

edited Nov 28 '16 at 21:12

egreg

735k8919343257

answered Nov 28 '16 at 21:05

H. R.

441415

Here is a simple trick which needs the amsmath package.

[
a boldsymbolcdot b = 0
]

and the result is

enter image description here

edited Nov 28 '16 at 21:12

egreg

735k8919343257

answered Nov 28 '16 at 21:05

H. R.

441415

edited Nov 28 '16 at 21:12

egreg

735k8919343257

edited Nov 28 '16 at 21:12

egreg

735k8919343257

edited Nov 28 '16 at 21:12

egreg

735k8919343257

answered Nov 28 '16 at 21:05

H. R.

441415

answered Nov 28 '16 at 21:05

H. R.

441415

answered Nov 28 '16 at 21:05

H. R.

441415

Interesting solution; but bf has been deprecated for 20+ years. Besides, align* serves no purpose here, where equation* would be the correct environment.

– egreg
Nov 28 '16 at 21:09

@egreg: Yeah! I am new to LaTex! Sorry for those! :) I changed the answer a little bit. Let me know if it is OK. :)

– H. R.
Nov 28 '16 at 21:11

This answer has a downside that the other one has not: if used within the scope of a mathversionbold (or boldmath, if you prefer) declaration, the dot cannot become any bolder. I agree, nonetheless, that it is an interesting solution.

– GuM
Nov 28 '16 at 21:58

add a comment |

Interesting solution; but bf has been deprecated for 20+ years. Besides, align* serves no purpose here, where equation* would be the correct environment.

– egreg
Nov 28 '16 at 21:09

@egreg: Yeah! I am new to LaTex! Sorry for those! :) I changed the answer a little bit. Let me know if it is OK. :)

– H. R.
Nov 28 '16 at 21:11

This answer has a downside that the other one has not: if used within the scope of a mathversionbold (or boldmath, if you prefer) declaration, the dot cannot become any bolder. I agree, nonetheless, that it is an interesting solution.

– GuM
Nov 28 '16 at 21:58

Interesting solution; but bf has been deprecated for 20+ years. Besides, align* serves no purpose here, where equation* would be the correct environment.

– egreg
Nov 28 '16 at 21:09

@egreg: Yeah! I am new to LaTex! Sorry for those! :) I changed the answer a little bit. Let me know if it is OK. :)

– H. R.
Nov 28 '16 at 21:11

This answer has a downside that the other one has not: if used within the scope of a mathversionbold (or boldmath, if you prefer) declaration, the dot cannot become any bolder. I agree, nonetheless, that it is an interesting solution.

– GuM
Nov 28 '16 at 21:58

add a comment |

The following example extends Manuel's answer in two ways:

The vertical position is fixed to center the symbol vertically around the
math axis as cdot and bullet do.

The width of the symbol is not the scaled down width of the bullet
(with scaled down side bearings), but a little larger width of cdot.

The scale and width factor can be configured by macros bigcdot@scalefactor and bigcdot@widthfactor.

documentclassscrartcl
usepackagecolor
usepackagegraphicx

makeatletter
newcommand*bigcdot% Check if undefined
DeclareRobustCommand*bigcdot%
 mathbinmathpalettebigcdot@%

newcommand*bigcdot@scalefactor.5
newcommand*bigcdot@widthfactor1.15
newcommand*bigcdot@[2]%
 % #1: math style
 % #2: unused
 sbox0$#1vcenter$% math axis
 sbox2$#1cdotm@th$%
 hbox to bigcdot@widthfactorwd2%
 hfil
 raiseht0hbox%
 scaleboxbigcdot@scalefactor%
 lowerht0hbox$#1bulletm@th$%
 %
 %
 hfil
 %

makeatother

begindocument
[ a bigcdot b ]
%
% Comparison with cdot and bullet
[ a cdot b bigcdot c bullet d ]
%
% Different math styles
[ a bigcdot b quad
 scriptstyle a bigcdot b quad
 scriptscriptstyle a bigcdot b
]
%
% Visualization of the math axis
[
 sbox0$-cdotbigcdotbullet-$
 rlapcopy0%
 vcenter%
 hbox%
 textcolorred%
 vrule widthwd0 height .05pt depth .05ptrelax
 %
 %
 
]
enddocument

edited May 9 '18 at 16:59

answered Mar 31 '18 at 23:23

Heiko Oberdiek

232k19563913

I love it! And some more words to exceed the character limit.

– Simon
Nov 13 '18 at 19:10

add a comment |

The following example extends Manuel's answer in two ways:

The vertical position is fixed to center the symbol vertically around the
math axis as cdot and bullet do.

The width of the symbol is not the scaled down width of the bullet
(with scaled down side bearings), but a little larger width of cdot.

The scale and width factor can be configured by macros bigcdot@scalefactor and bigcdot@widthfactor.

documentclassscrartcl
usepackagecolor
usepackagegraphicx

makeatletter
newcommand*bigcdot% Check if undefined
DeclareRobustCommand*bigcdot%
 mathbinmathpalettebigcdot@%

newcommand*bigcdot@scalefactor.5
newcommand*bigcdot@widthfactor1.15
newcommand*bigcdot@[2]%
 % #1: math style
 % #2: unused
 sbox0$#1vcenter$% math axis
 sbox2$#1cdotm@th$%
 hbox to bigcdot@widthfactorwd2%
 hfil
 raiseht0hbox%
 scaleboxbigcdot@scalefactor%
 lowerht0hbox$#1bulletm@th$%
 %
 %
 hfil
 %

makeatother

begindocument
[ a bigcdot b ]
%
% Comparison with cdot and bullet
[ a cdot b bigcdot c bullet d ]
%
% Different math styles
[ a bigcdot b quad
 scriptstyle a bigcdot b quad
 scriptscriptstyle a bigcdot b
]
%
% Visualization of the math axis
[
 sbox0$-cdotbigcdotbullet-$
 rlapcopy0%
 vcenter%
 hbox%
 textcolorred%
 vrule widthwd0 height .05pt depth .05ptrelax
 %
 %
 
]
enddocument

edited May 9 '18 at 16:59

answered Mar 31 '18 at 23:23

Heiko Oberdiek

232k19563913

I love it! And some more words to exceed the character limit.

– Simon
Nov 13 '18 at 19:10

add a comment |

The following example extends Manuel's answer in two ways:

The vertical position is fixed to center the symbol vertically around the
math axis as cdot and bullet do.

The width of the symbol is not the scaled down width of the bullet
(with scaled down side bearings), but a little larger width of cdot.

The scale and width factor can be configured by macros bigcdot@scalefactor and bigcdot@widthfactor.

documentclassscrartcl
usepackagecolor
usepackagegraphicx

makeatletter
newcommand*bigcdot% Check if undefined
DeclareRobustCommand*bigcdot%
 mathbinmathpalettebigcdot@%

newcommand*bigcdot@scalefactor.5
newcommand*bigcdot@widthfactor1.15
newcommand*bigcdot@[2]%
 % #1: math style
 % #2: unused
 sbox0$#1vcenter$% math axis
 sbox2$#1cdotm@th$%
 hbox to bigcdot@widthfactorwd2%
 hfil
 raiseht0hbox%
 scaleboxbigcdot@scalefactor%
 lowerht0hbox$#1bulletm@th$%
 %
 %
 hfil
 %

makeatother

begindocument
[ a bigcdot b ]
%
% Comparison with cdot and bullet
[ a cdot b bigcdot c bullet d ]
%
% Different math styles
[ a bigcdot b quad
 scriptstyle a bigcdot b quad
 scriptscriptstyle a bigcdot b
]
%
% Visualization of the math axis
[
 sbox0$-cdotbigcdotbullet-$
 rlapcopy0%
 vcenter%
 hbox%
 textcolorred%
 vrule widthwd0 height .05pt depth .05ptrelax
 %
 %
 
]
enddocument

edited May 9 '18 at 16:59

answered Mar 31 '18 at 23:23

Heiko Oberdiek

232k19563913

The following example extends Manuel's answer in two ways:

The vertical position is fixed to center the symbol vertically around the
math axis as cdot and bullet do.

The width of the symbol is not the scaled down width of the bullet
(with scaled down side bearings), but a little larger width of cdot.

The scale and width factor can be configured by macros bigcdot@scalefactor and bigcdot@widthfactor.

documentclassscrartcl
usepackagecolor
usepackagegraphicx

makeatletter
newcommand*bigcdot% Check if undefined
DeclareRobustCommand*bigcdot%
 mathbinmathpalettebigcdot@%

newcommand*bigcdot@scalefactor.5
newcommand*bigcdot@widthfactor1.15
newcommand*bigcdot@[2]%
 % #1: math style
 % #2: unused
 sbox0$#1vcenter$% math axis
 sbox2$#1cdotm@th$%
 hbox to bigcdot@widthfactorwd2%
 hfil
 raiseht0hbox%
 scaleboxbigcdot@scalefactor%
 lowerht0hbox$#1bulletm@th$%
 %
 %
 hfil
 %

makeatother

begindocument
[ a bigcdot b ]
%
% Comparison with cdot and bullet
[ a cdot b bigcdot c bullet d ]
%
% Different math styles
[ a bigcdot b quad
 scriptstyle a bigcdot b quad
 scriptscriptstyle a bigcdot b
]
%
% Visualization of the math axis
[
 sbox0$-cdotbigcdotbullet-$
 rlapcopy0%
 vcenter%
 hbox%
 textcolorred%
 vrule widthwd0 height .05pt depth .05ptrelax
 %
 %
 
]
enddocument

edited May 9 '18 at 16:59

answered Mar 31 '18 at 23:23

Heiko Oberdiek

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Heiko Oberdiek

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Heiko Oberdiek

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I love it! And some more words to exceed the character limit.

– Simon
Nov 13 '18 at 19:10

I love it! And some more words to exceed the character limit.

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Nov 13 '18 at 19:10

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You should at least use a binop here.

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a texttextbullet b = 0

How about to use a text symbol instead?

At least it is simple!

enter image description here

answered Mar 20 '18 at 9:38

GyuHyeon Choi

1216

You should at least use a binop here.

– John Dorian
Apr 1 '18 at 9:13

add a comment |

-1

a texttextbullet b = 0

How about to use a text symbol instead?

At least it is simple!

enter image description here

answered Mar 20 '18 at 9:38

GyuHyeon Choi

1216

a texttextbullet b = 0

How about to use a text symbol instead?

At least it is simple!

enter image description here

answered Mar 20 '18 at 9:38

GyuHyeon Choi

1216

answered Mar 20 '18 at 9:38

GyuHyeon Choi

1216

answered Mar 20 '18 at 9:38

GyuHyeon Choi

1216

answered Mar 20 '18 at 9:38

GyuHyeon Choi

1216

You should at least use a binop here.

– John Dorian
Apr 1 '18 at 9:13

add a comment |

You should at least use a binop here.

– John Dorian
Apr 1 '18 at 9:13

You should at least use a binop here.

– John Dorian
Apr 1 '18 at 9:13

add a comment |

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