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Dashed left arrow over symbol
I want to put dashed left arrow over symbol.
Dashed left arrow looks like this:
$x \dashedleftarrow y$
I want arrow to be over symbol $x$, like in
$\overleftarrow{x}$
, only dashed.
I tried ...
6
votes
1answer
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Typesetting inline Penrose/Cvitanovic tensor diagrams (birdtracks)
In the 50's, Roger Penrose invented a private graphical notation for tensors, which he later published. Wikipedia has a short description. It's basically a directed graph with some labels on it and ...
3
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2answers
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Adding symbols at the end(s) of a horizontal line
I'm looking for variations of the symbol \relbar, or any other horizontal line that is about as along as a standard-length arrow.
In particular, I'd like to be able to add arrowheads, as in ...
3
votes
1answer
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Arrow with a point on it and cancelled arrow
I stumbled over this kind of arrows and can't find any reference to it (since I not even know how they're called).
Does anyone know the right command for those? Or are this constructed elements?
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2
votes
1answer
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Searching for up and down arrow symbol (⇅)
Whats the command for this symbol: ⇅
I've found ⇈ \upuparrows but I can't find the other one.
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4answers
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Looking for a symbol (arrow with dot)
I am looking for this symbol:
I recently discovered it in a paper. However, I was not able to find it in the "Comprehensive List" (symbols-a4.pdf) or anywhere else.
7
votes
1answer
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How to typeset inclusion arrow?
I would like to know what is the best way to do an inclusion arrow, using xy or tikz. I know that there is a command for an arrow, like \to, for inclusions, but this is not expansible.
What do you ...
3
votes
0answers
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\upharpoonright problem [closed]
Sometimes \upharpoonright prints the "restriction" (as it is supposed to do) on the output text file, but sometimes it prints horizontal bars (on top of the line) - which I don't know how to correct.
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7
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3answers
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“Broken” arrow symbol
In his pretty awesome book “Undergraduate Algebraic Geometry” M. Reid uses (e.g. see page 4) symbol of “broken” arrow (which looks quite a like dash+space+short arrow : “- →”) for partially ...
7
votes
5answers
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Symbol for “rotate around axis”
I have two pictures of an object where I need to indicate that one is rotated by x° (around a certain axis), preferably with the arrow in the picture - BUT - I can't seem to find this arrow in the ...
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votes
1answer
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Yield symbol (chemistry)
I'm trying to format a chemical reaction with LaTeX, and apparently it doesn't accept "→" as a character. Is there any way to do it?
7
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4answers
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How to use \leadsto in LaTeX2e?
I tried to draw an arrow with the command
\leadsto
But I get the following exception:
! LaTeX Error: Command \leadsto not provided in base LaTeX2e.
So how can I draw such an arrow?
I tried to ...
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vote
1answer
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math.SE-compatible LaTeX for diagrams with non-horizontal “decorated” arrows?
I'm looking for LaTeX directives that I can use in posts to math.SE to make category-theory-style diagrams that use non-horizontal (vertical, slanted, curved) arrows, both "plain" (i.e. the ...
3
votes
2answers
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Easy way to type more kinds of arrows?
There is \rightrightarrows to produce two parallel arrows, \longrightarrow to produce a longer arrow and \xrightarrow to produce an extendable arrow. But is there an easy way to produce two long ...
2
votes
1answer
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How to create \ssearrow with two heads
I'm using \ssearrow to denote a deformation retraction in algebraic topology. I want to use the same arrow, but with two heads for a strong deformation retraction. It doesn't exist in MnSymbol.
Is ...
10
votes
1answer
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Acronyms with an arrow in front of them
I'm using the acronyms package and I wonder if there's an easy way of marking acronyms as such by putting an arrow in front of them?
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3answers
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Command for horizontally flipped newline symbol
I'm looking for the command to produce the often used symbol indicating a line break --- but flipped horizontally.
So basically this symbol:
|
|
| \
|------
/
It should fit within one line ...
5
votes
3answers
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Arrow with text above
I am drawing an arrow using the following command:
$ \xleftarrow{\mbox{\tiny{BCast}}} $.
I have tested the command in two different environments:
TeXShop (MacOS, uses TeX Live) outputs an arrow ...
5
votes
1answer
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Change arrow head of \xrightarrow[]{}
I am using \xrightarrow{} in many places in my document. I want to change the tip to look like the one that gets produced by -latex.
I am trying to get a similar tip for the \xrightarrow{} macro.
10
votes
1answer
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Extending arrows with overset text
I'd like to extend an arrow to allow better readability of characters which are overset using \overset{}{}.
Right now I have
\overset{k_1}{\rightleftharpoons}
which produces:
and this leaves ...
10
votes
5answers
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How do I stack more than two arrows in math mode?
The command \rightrightarrows (from amssymb) draws two arrows, one on top of another. How do I get three arrows arranged in a similar fashion? An example of this (and other fancy arrow stackings) ...
