Latex symbols (was: Re: String freeze break in gedit)

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

On 06/09/2005, at 12:34 AM, Frank Arnold wrote:

> Am Montag, den 05.09.2005, 21:35 +0930 schrieb Clytie Siddall:
>
> > While this is being discussed, I understand the ASCII shorthand for
> > â and â, but what do >> and << mean?
> >
> > Thankyou to anyone who can enlighten me. :)

> These are Latex symbols \gg and \ll or naturally written "much  
> greater"
> and "much less".
>
> Image to see how they look like:
> http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~elip/latex_symbols3.gif
>
> Unicode would be:
> â U+226A MUCH LESS-THAN
> â U+226B MUCH GREATER-THAN

Frank, thanks a heap for this. Since I'm using UTF-8, I try to input  
the correct characters if I can, but I don't know latex. With this  
excellent diagram, I can do much better. Thankyou!

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhÃm  
Viát hÃa phán mám tá do)
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