Special Symbols - Index

All these symbols are invoked from within the _SYMB( ) macro.
for example: _SYMB(pi) will display

Most everything is at 20pt size and was generated with xfig, cropped & reversed with xv, and the background was made transparent with giftrans. However, the foreground color is black.

These symbols are a simple and useful hack until the time when HTML fully supports math equation typesetting in a form similar to LaTeX. The problem with using these gifs is that all the symbols are place flush with the output line ... there's no concept of descenders like the letter g or y.

The entire collection of gifs can be downloaded.

Del		alpha		Alpha
box		beta		Beta
di		gamma		Gamma
PROD		delta		Delta
Prod		epsilon		Epsilon
prod		zeta		Zeta
SUM		eta		Eta
Sum		theta		Theta
sum		iota		Iota
UNION		kappa		Kappa
Union		lambda		Lambda
union		mu		Mu
Subset		nu		Nu
subset		xi		Xi
notsubset		omicron		Omicron
Superset		pi		Pi
superset		rho		Rho
empty		sigma		Sigma
member		tau		Tau
approx		upsilon		Upsilon
noteq		phi		Phi
ge		chi		Chi
le		psi		Psi
similar		omega		Omega
exists		varomega		vartheta
forall		varphi		varzeta
therefore		para		perpen