[OS X TeX] A puzzle

[Ross Moore]

Hi George,

On 12/05/2014, at 12:59 AM, George Gratzer wrote:

> I needed a symbol for "swing to", see attachment. How did I do it?

The symbol you "constructed" already exists in Unicode, 
and is available in the STIX font set.

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Generally you are doing no-one any favours by inventing a completely
new symbol. It will not be supported in fonts, and has no way to
be accessible to mathematicians with visual impairment.

It is far better to take a good look at what is already available,
and just invent the new usage case for an existing symbol.


> 
> GG


Hope this helps,

	Ross

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