Where do I find a symbol that looks like a slightly smaller version of a 90 degrees rotated \Bowtie
from the wasysym
package?
Something like .
I couldn't find anything in the usual tables. The detexify site yields nothing close. I managed the following hack (which defines a binary operator):
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{wasysym,graphicx}
\newcommand{\uproduct}{\mathbin{\;{\rotatebox{90}{$\small\Bowtie$}}}}
\begin{document}
$A \uproduct B$
\end{document}
It produces . Although it looks OK here, it looks bad when used in a subscript. This is surely not the right solution. I'd well believe that a solution using metafont exists, but would prefer something less esoteric. Perhaps there is a standard symbols package that I overlooked?
**EDIT: Geoffrey and Aditya gave admirable solutions for creating this symbol (I'm sorry for previously calling them "hacks"). And Seamus found a font package.
\mathchoice
-based solution should be safe to most contingencies.\mathchoice
(like\;
,\[
etc) is a TeX primitive, aditya's\mathpalette
comes fromplain.tex
,\scalebox
fromgraphics.sty
and\rotatebox
fromgraphicx.sty
have both been around for 15+ years. I.e., 99.99% of the problems that might surface have already been ironed out. Rest easy. :)