# [texhax] LaTeX command \leq and \leqslant

Konstantin Karapetyan texnic at photonica.ru
Sun Jan 30 15:07:10 CET 2005

Dear Patric,

I wonder what packages you use. Below is an example which works fine
with my MiKTeX 2.4:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\begin{document}
$1 \leqslant 2 \leq 4$
\end{document}

Regards,
KK.

P.S. You probably wanted to say \leq = “less or equal”.

>
> actually the LaTeX command \leq should produce the  "greater or
> equal symbol" where the lower bar of the = sign is horizontal  and
> the command \leqslant should produce a "greater or equal symbol"
> with the  bar for "equal" parallel to the the < symbol. Yet in my
> LaTeX-Files both  commands produce the latter version of the
> "greater or equal symbol". If it is  of importance for the solution
> of the problem: I use Dante's LaTeX  distributionTex-Live.
> If this you are not the right address to pose this  question to,
> could you tell me another contact address or forum  site?
> Thanks a lot for your help.
> Best regards
>
> Patric Gloede