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I'm trying to replicate the dot that my professor uses in his notes for the dot product between vectors but I am having a hard time doing so. This is what it looks like:



enter image description here



I have tried a couple of things. cdot is too thin



 asdf



and bullet is too thick



enter image description here



and using Large with cdot gives an error. Moreover, after digging through the list of symbols I cannot find a nice medium between cdot and bullet.



How can I get a dot closest to the first picture?










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  • I use bullet for dot products.

    – k-l
    Mar 22 '17 at 0:13
















42















I'm trying to replicate the dot that my professor uses in his notes for the dot product between vectors but I am having a hard time doing so. This is what it looks like:



enter image description here



I have tried a couple of things. cdot is too thin



 asdf



and bullet is too thick



enter image description here



and using Large with cdot gives an error. Moreover, after digging through the list of symbols I cannot find a nice medium between cdot and bullet.



How can I get a dot closest to the first picture?










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  • I use bullet for dot products.

    – k-l
    Mar 22 '17 at 0:13














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I'm trying to replicate the dot that my professor uses in his notes for the dot product between vectors but I am having a hard time doing so. This is what it looks like:



enter image description here



I have tried a couple of things. cdot is too thin



 asdf



and bullet is too thick



enter image description here



and using Large with cdot gives an error. Moreover, after digging through the list of symbols I cannot find a nice medium between cdot and bullet.



How can I get a dot closest to the first picture?










share|improve this question
















I'm trying to replicate the dot that my professor uses in his notes for the dot product between vectors but I am having a hard time doing so. This is what it looks like:



enter image description here



I have tried a couple of things. cdot is too thin



 asdf



and bullet is too thick



enter image description here



and using Large with cdot gives an error. Moreover, after digging through the list of symbols I cannot find a nice medium between cdot and bullet.



How can I get a dot closest to the first picture?







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  • I use bullet for dot products.

    – k-l
    Mar 22 '17 at 0:13



















  • I use bullet for dot products.

    – k-l
    Mar 22 '17 at 0:13

















I use bullet for dot products.

– k-l
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I use bullet for dot products.

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May be you find a better name like dotp or something like that.



documentclass{scrartcl}
usepackage{graphicx}

makeatletter
newcommand*bigcdot{mathpalettebigcdot@{.5}}
newcommand*bigcdot@[2]{mathbin{vcenter{hbox{scalebox{#2}{$m@th#1bullet$}}}}}
makeatother

begin{document}
$a bigcdot b$
end{document}


enter image description here






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    @Manuel (or anyone who understands this), could you clarify a couple of points about your macros? 1. What are the two parameters to mathpalette? (I only "see" one, unless "bigcdot@" and ".5" are separate in which case I don't understand why mathpalette is called. 2. What ends up being the first parameter (#1) to bigcdot@, used right before bullet?

    – dedded
    Feb 3 '16 at 13:22








  • 1





    That's how mathpalette works, the #1 that is passed to bigcdot@ is the current math style (displaystyle, textstyle, scriptstyle, or scriptscriptstyle depending on the case).Basically what mathpalette does is taking two arguments, and passing the currentstyle in first place and the second argument after it, so mathpaletefoo{whatever} ends up being for instance foodisplaystyle{whatever}, so you have to define foo accordingly.

    – Manuel
    Feb 3 '16 at 14:06











  • @sardoj See The mysteries of mathpalette

    – egreg
    Nov 28 '16 at 21:11





















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Here is a simple trick which needs the amsmath package.



[
a boldsymbol{cdot} b = 0
]


and the result is



enter image description here






share|improve this answer


























  • Interesting solution; but bf has been deprecated for 20+ years. Besides, align* serves no purpose here, where equation* would be the correct environment.

    – egreg
    Nov 28 '16 at 21:09













  • @egreg: Yeah! I am new to LaTex! Sorry for those! :) I changed the answer a little bit. Let me know if it is OK. :)

    – H. R.
    Nov 28 '16 at 21:11













  • This answer has a downside that the other one has not: if used within the scope of a mathversion{bold} (or boldmath, if you prefer) declaration, the dot cannot become any bolder. I agree, nonetheless, that it is an interesting solution.

    – GuM
    Nov 28 '16 at 21:58



















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The following example extends Manuel's answer in two ways:




  • The vertical position is fixed to center the symbol vertically around the
    math axis as cdot and bullet do.

  • The width of the symbol is not the scaled down width of the bullet
    (with scaled down side bearings), but a little larger width of cdot.


The scale and width factor can be configured by macros bigcdot@scalefactor and bigcdot@widthfactor.



documentclass{scrartcl}
usepackage{color}
usepackage{graphicx}

makeatletter
newcommand*{bigcdot}{}% Check if undefined
DeclareRobustCommand*{bigcdot}{%
mathbin{mathpalettebigcdot@{}}%
}
newcommand*{bigcdot@scalefactor}{.5}
newcommand*{bigcdot@widthfactor}{1.15}
newcommand*{bigcdot@}[2]{%
% #1: math style
% #2: unused
sbox0{$#1vcenter{}$}% math axis
sbox2{$#1cdotm@th$}%
hbox to bigcdot@widthfactorwd2{%
hfil
raiseht0hbox{%
scalebox{bigcdot@scalefactor}{%
lowerht0hbox{$#1bulletm@th$}%
}%
}%
hfil
}%
}
makeatother

begin{document}
[ a bigcdot b ]
%
% Comparison with cdot and bullet
[ a cdot b bigcdot c bullet d ]
%
% Different math styles
[ a bigcdot b quad
scriptstyle a bigcdot b quad
scriptscriptstyle a bigcdot b
]
%
% Visualization of the math axis
[
sbox0{${-}{cdot}{bigcdot}{bullet}{-}$}
rlap{copy0}%
vcenter{%
hbox{%
textcolor{red}{%
vrule widthwd0 height .05pt depth .05ptrelax
}%
}%
}
]
end{document}



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  • I love it! And some more words to exceed the character limit.

    – Simon
    Nov 13 '18 at 19:10





















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a text{textbullet} b = 0


How about to use a text symbol instead?



At least it is simple!



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documentclass{scrartcl}
usepackage{graphicx}

makeatletter
newcommand*bigcdot{mathpalettebigcdot@{.5}}
newcommand*bigcdot@[2]{mathbin{vcenter{hbox{scalebox{#2}{$m@th#1bullet$}}}}}
makeatother

begin{document}
$a bigcdot b$
end{document}


enter image description here






share|improve this answer



















  • 2





    @Manuel (or anyone who understands this), could you clarify a couple of points about your macros? 1. What are the two parameters to mathpalette? (I only "see" one, unless "bigcdot@" and ".5" are separate in which case I don't understand why mathpalette is called. 2. What ends up being the first parameter (#1) to bigcdot@, used right before bullet?

    – dedded
    Feb 3 '16 at 13:22








  • 1





    That's how mathpalette works, the #1 that is passed to bigcdot@ is the current math style (displaystyle, textstyle, scriptstyle, or scriptscriptstyle depending on the case).Basically what mathpalette does is taking two arguments, and passing the currentstyle in first place and the second argument after it, so mathpaletefoo{whatever} ends up being for instance foodisplaystyle{whatever}, so you have to define foo accordingly.

    – Manuel
    Feb 3 '16 at 14:06











  • @sardoj See The mysteries of mathpalette

    – egreg
    Nov 28 '16 at 21:11


















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May be you find a better name like dotp or something like that.



documentclass{scrartcl}
usepackage{graphicx}

makeatletter
newcommand*bigcdot{mathpalettebigcdot@{.5}}
newcommand*bigcdot@[2]{mathbin{vcenter{hbox{scalebox{#2}{$m@th#1bullet$}}}}}
makeatother

begin{document}
$a bigcdot b$
end{document}


enter image description here






share|improve this answer



















  • 2





    @Manuel (or anyone who understands this), could you clarify a couple of points about your macros? 1. What are the two parameters to mathpalette? (I only "see" one, unless "bigcdot@" and ".5" are separate in which case I don't understand why mathpalette is called. 2. What ends up being the first parameter (#1) to bigcdot@, used right before bullet?

    – dedded
    Feb 3 '16 at 13:22








  • 1





    That's how mathpalette works, the #1 that is passed to bigcdot@ is the current math style (displaystyle, textstyle, scriptstyle, or scriptscriptstyle depending on the case).Basically what mathpalette does is taking two arguments, and passing the currentstyle in first place and the second argument after it, so mathpaletefoo{whatever} ends up being for instance foodisplaystyle{whatever}, so you have to define foo accordingly.

    – Manuel
    Feb 3 '16 at 14:06











  • @sardoj See The mysteries of mathpalette

    – egreg
    Nov 28 '16 at 21:11
















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39







May be you find a better name like dotp or something like that.



documentclass{scrartcl}
usepackage{graphicx}

makeatletter
newcommand*bigcdot{mathpalettebigcdot@{.5}}
newcommand*bigcdot@[2]{mathbin{vcenter{hbox{scalebox{#2}{$m@th#1bullet$}}}}}
makeatother

begin{document}
$a bigcdot b$
end{document}


enter image description here






share|improve this answer













May be you find a better name like dotp or something like that.



documentclass{scrartcl}
usepackage{graphicx}

makeatletter
newcommand*bigcdot{mathpalettebigcdot@{.5}}
newcommand*bigcdot@[2]{mathbin{vcenter{hbox{scalebox{#2}{$m@th#1bullet$}}}}}
makeatother

begin{document}
$a bigcdot b$
end{document}


enter image description here







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  • 2





    @Manuel (or anyone who understands this), could you clarify a couple of points about your macros? 1. What are the two parameters to mathpalette? (I only "see" one, unless "bigcdot@" and ".5" are separate in which case I don't understand why mathpalette is called. 2. What ends up being the first parameter (#1) to bigcdot@, used right before bullet?

    – dedded
    Feb 3 '16 at 13:22








  • 1





    That's how mathpalette works, the #1 that is passed to bigcdot@ is the current math style (displaystyle, textstyle, scriptstyle, or scriptscriptstyle depending on the case).Basically what mathpalette does is taking two arguments, and passing the currentstyle in first place and the second argument after it, so mathpaletefoo{whatever} ends up being for instance foodisplaystyle{whatever}, so you have to define foo accordingly.

    – Manuel
    Feb 3 '16 at 14:06











  • @sardoj See The mysteries of mathpalette

    – egreg
    Nov 28 '16 at 21:11
















  • 2





    @Manuel (or anyone who understands this), could you clarify a couple of points about your macros? 1. What are the two parameters to mathpalette? (I only "see" one, unless "bigcdot@" and ".5" are separate in which case I don't understand why mathpalette is called. 2. What ends up being the first parameter (#1) to bigcdot@, used right before bullet?

    – dedded
    Feb 3 '16 at 13:22








  • 1





    That's how mathpalette works, the #1 that is passed to bigcdot@ is the current math style (displaystyle, textstyle, scriptstyle, or scriptscriptstyle depending on the case).Basically what mathpalette does is taking two arguments, and passing the currentstyle in first place and the second argument after it, so mathpaletefoo{whatever} ends up being for instance foodisplaystyle{whatever}, so you have to define foo accordingly.

    – Manuel
    Feb 3 '16 at 14:06











  • @sardoj See The mysteries of mathpalette

    – egreg
    Nov 28 '16 at 21:11










2




2





@Manuel (or anyone who understands this), could you clarify a couple of points about your macros? 1. What are the two parameters to mathpalette? (I only "see" one, unless "bigcdot@" and ".5" are separate in which case I don't understand why mathpalette is called. 2. What ends up being the first parameter (#1) to bigcdot@, used right before bullet?

– dedded
Feb 3 '16 at 13:22







@Manuel (or anyone who understands this), could you clarify a couple of points about your macros? 1. What are the two parameters to mathpalette? (I only "see" one, unless "bigcdot@" and ".5" are separate in which case I don't understand why mathpalette is called. 2. What ends up being the first parameter (#1) to bigcdot@, used right before bullet?

– dedded
Feb 3 '16 at 13:22






1




1





That's how mathpalette works, the #1 that is passed to bigcdot@ is the current math style (displaystyle, textstyle, scriptstyle, or scriptscriptstyle depending on the case).Basically what mathpalette does is taking two arguments, and passing the currentstyle in first place and the second argument after it, so mathpaletefoo{whatever} ends up being for instance foodisplaystyle{whatever}, so you have to define foo accordingly.

– Manuel
Feb 3 '16 at 14:06





That's how mathpalette works, the #1 that is passed to bigcdot@ is the current math style (displaystyle, textstyle, scriptstyle, or scriptscriptstyle depending on the case).Basically what mathpalette does is taking two arguments, and passing the currentstyle in first place and the second argument after it, so mathpaletefoo{whatever} ends up being for instance foodisplaystyle{whatever}, so you have to define foo accordingly.

– Manuel
Feb 3 '16 at 14:06













@sardoj See The mysteries of mathpalette

– egreg
Nov 28 '16 at 21:11







@sardoj See The mysteries of mathpalette

– egreg
Nov 28 '16 at 21:11













20














Here is a simple trick which needs the amsmath package.



[
a boldsymbol{cdot} b = 0
]


and the result is



enter image description here






share|improve this answer


























  • Interesting solution; but bf has been deprecated for 20+ years. Besides, align* serves no purpose here, where equation* would be the correct environment.

    – egreg
    Nov 28 '16 at 21:09













  • @egreg: Yeah! I am new to LaTex! Sorry for those! :) I changed the answer a little bit. Let me know if it is OK. :)

    – H. R.
    Nov 28 '16 at 21:11













  • This answer has a downside that the other one has not: if used within the scope of a mathversion{bold} (or boldmath, if you prefer) declaration, the dot cannot become any bolder. I agree, nonetheless, that it is an interesting solution.

    – GuM
    Nov 28 '16 at 21:58
















20














Here is a simple trick which needs the amsmath package.



[
a boldsymbol{cdot} b = 0
]


and the result is



enter image description here






share|improve this answer


























  • Interesting solution; but bf has been deprecated for 20+ years. Besides, align* serves no purpose here, where equation* would be the correct environment.

    – egreg
    Nov 28 '16 at 21:09













  • @egreg: Yeah! I am new to LaTex! Sorry for those! :) I changed the answer a little bit. Let me know if it is OK. :)

    – H. R.
    Nov 28 '16 at 21:11













  • This answer has a downside that the other one has not: if used within the scope of a mathversion{bold} (or boldmath, if you prefer) declaration, the dot cannot become any bolder. I agree, nonetheless, that it is an interesting solution.

    – GuM
    Nov 28 '16 at 21:58














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20







Here is a simple trick which needs the amsmath package.



[
a boldsymbol{cdot} b = 0
]


and the result is



enter image description here






share|improve this answer















Here is a simple trick which needs the amsmath package.



[
a boldsymbol{cdot} b = 0
]


and the result is



enter image description here







share|improve this answer














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  • Interesting solution; but bf has been deprecated for 20+ years. Besides, align* serves no purpose here, where equation* would be the correct environment.

    – egreg
    Nov 28 '16 at 21:09













  • @egreg: Yeah! I am new to LaTex! Sorry for those! :) I changed the answer a little bit. Let me know if it is OK. :)

    – H. R.
    Nov 28 '16 at 21:11













  • This answer has a downside that the other one has not: if used within the scope of a mathversion{bold} (or boldmath, if you prefer) declaration, the dot cannot become any bolder. I agree, nonetheless, that it is an interesting solution.

    – GuM
    Nov 28 '16 at 21:58



















  • Interesting solution; but bf has been deprecated for 20+ years. Besides, align* serves no purpose here, where equation* would be the correct environment.

    – egreg
    Nov 28 '16 at 21:09













  • @egreg: Yeah! I am new to LaTex! Sorry for those! :) I changed the answer a little bit. Let me know if it is OK. :)

    – H. R.
    Nov 28 '16 at 21:11













  • This answer has a downside that the other one has not: if used within the scope of a mathversion{bold} (or boldmath, if you prefer) declaration, the dot cannot become any bolder. I agree, nonetheless, that it is an interesting solution.

    – GuM
    Nov 28 '16 at 21:58

















Interesting solution; but bf has been deprecated for 20+ years. Besides, align* serves no purpose here, where equation* would be the correct environment.

– egreg
Nov 28 '16 at 21:09







Interesting solution; but bf has been deprecated for 20+ years. Besides, align* serves no purpose here, where equation* would be the correct environment.

– egreg
Nov 28 '16 at 21:09















@egreg: Yeah! I am new to LaTex! Sorry for those! :) I changed the answer a little bit. Let me know if it is OK. :)

– H. R.
Nov 28 '16 at 21:11







@egreg: Yeah! I am new to LaTex! Sorry for those! :) I changed the answer a little bit. Let me know if it is OK. :)

– H. R.
Nov 28 '16 at 21:11















This answer has a downside that the other one has not: if used within the scope of a mathversion{bold} (or boldmath, if you prefer) declaration, the dot cannot become any bolder. I agree, nonetheless, that it is an interesting solution.

– GuM
Nov 28 '16 at 21:58





This answer has a downside that the other one has not: if used within the scope of a mathversion{bold} (or boldmath, if you prefer) declaration, the dot cannot become any bolder. I agree, nonetheless, that it is an interesting solution.

– GuM
Nov 28 '16 at 21:58











7














The following example extends Manuel's answer in two ways:




  • The vertical position is fixed to center the symbol vertically around the
    math axis as cdot and bullet do.

  • The width of the symbol is not the scaled down width of the bullet
    (with scaled down side bearings), but a little larger width of cdot.


The scale and width factor can be configured by macros bigcdot@scalefactor and bigcdot@widthfactor.



documentclass{scrartcl}
usepackage{color}
usepackage{graphicx}

makeatletter
newcommand*{bigcdot}{}% Check if undefined
DeclareRobustCommand*{bigcdot}{%
mathbin{mathpalettebigcdot@{}}%
}
newcommand*{bigcdot@scalefactor}{.5}
newcommand*{bigcdot@widthfactor}{1.15}
newcommand*{bigcdot@}[2]{%
% #1: math style
% #2: unused
sbox0{$#1vcenter{}$}% math axis
sbox2{$#1cdotm@th$}%
hbox to bigcdot@widthfactorwd2{%
hfil
raiseht0hbox{%
scalebox{bigcdot@scalefactor}{%
lowerht0hbox{$#1bulletm@th$}%
}%
}%
hfil
}%
}
makeatother

begin{document}
[ a bigcdot b ]
%
% Comparison with cdot and bullet
[ a cdot b bigcdot c bullet d ]
%
% Different math styles
[ a bigcdot b quad
scriptstyle a bigcdot b quad
scriptscriptstyle a bigcdot b
]
%
% Visualization of the math axis
[
sbox0{${-}{cdot}{bigcdot}{bullet}{-}$}
rlap{copy0}%
vcenter{%
hbox{%
textcolor{red}{%
vrule widthwd0 height .05pt depth .05ptrelax
}%
}%
}
]
end{document}



Result







share|improve this answer


























  • I love it! And some more words to exceed the character limit.

    – Simon
    Nov 13 '18 at 19:10


















7














The following example extends Manuel's answer in two ways:




  • The vertical position is fixed to center the symbol vertically around the
    math axis as cdot and bullet do.

  • The width of the symbol is not the scaled down width of the bullet
    (with scaled down side bearings), but a little larger width of cdot.


The scale and width factor can be configured by macros bigcdot@scalefactor and bigcdot@widthfactor.



documentclass{scrartcl}
usepackage{color}
usepackage{graphicx}

makeatletter
newcommand*{bigcdot}{}% Check if undefined
DeclareRobustCommand*{bigcdot}{%
mathbin{mathpalettebigcdot@{}}%
}
newcommand*{bigcdot@scalefactor}{.5}
newcommand*{bigcdot@widthfactor}{1.15}
newcommand*{bigcdot@}[2]{%
% #1: math style
% #2: unused
sbox0{$#1vcenter{}$}% math axis
sbox2{$#1cdotm@th$}%
hbox to bigcdot@widthfactorwd2{%
hfil
raiseht0hbox{%
scalebox{bigcdot@scalefactor}{%
lowerht0hbox{$#1bulletm@th$}%
}%
}%
hfil
}%
}
makeatother

begin{document}
[ a bigcdot b ]
%
% Comparison with cdot and bullet
[ a cdot b bigcdot c bullet d ]
%
% Different math styles
[ a bigcdot b quad
scriptstyle a bigcdot b quad
scriptscriptstyle a bigcdot b
]
%
% Visualization of the math axis
[
sbox0{${-}{cdot}{bigcdot}{bullet}{-}$}
rlap{copy0}%
vcenter{%
hbox{%
textcolor{red}{%
vrule widthwd0 height .05pt depth .05ptrelax
}%
}%
}
]
end{document}



Result







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  • I love it! And some more words to exceed the character limit.

    – Simon
    Nov 13 '18 at 19:10
















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7








7







The following example extends Manuel's answer in two ways:




  • The vertical position is fixed to center the symbol vertically around the
    math axis as cdot and bullet do.

  • The width of the symbol is not the scaled down width of the bullet
    (with scaled down side bearings), but a little larger width of cdot.


The scale and width factor can be configured by macros bigcdot@scalefactor and bigcdot@widthfactor.



documentclass{scrartcl}
usepackage{color}
usepackage{graphicx}

makeatletter
newcommand*{bigcdot}{}% Check if undefined
DeclareRobustCommand*{bigcdot}{%
mathbin{mathpalettebigcdot@{}}%
}
newcommand*{bigcdot@scalefactor}{.5}
newcommand*{bigcdot@widthfactor}{1.15}
newcommand*{bigcdot@}[2]{%
% #1: math style
% #2: unused
sbox0{$#1vcenter{}$}% math axis
sbox2{$#1cdotm@th$}%
hbox to bigcdot@widthfactorwd2{%
hfil
raiseht0hbox{%
scalebox{bigcdot@scalefactor}{%
lowerht0hbox{$#1bulletm@th$}%
}%
}%
hfil
}%
}
makeatother

begin{document}
[ a bigcdot b ]
%
% Comparison with cdot and bullet
[ a cdot b bigcdot c bullet d ]
%
% Different math styles
[ a bigcdot b quad
scriptstyle a bigcdot b quad
scriptscriptstyle a bigcdot b
]
%
% Visualization of the math axis
[
sbox0{${-}{cdot}{bigcdot}{bullet}{-}$}
rlap{copy0}%
vcenter{%
hbox{%
textcolor{red}{%
vrule widthwd0 height .05pt depth .05ptrelax
}%
}%
}
]
end{document}



Result







share|improve this answer















The following example extends Manuel's answer in two ways:




  • The vertical position is fixed to center the symbol vertically around the
    math axis as cdot and bullet do.

  • The width of the symbol is not the scaled down width of the bullet
    (with scaled down side bearings), but a little larger width of cdot.


The scale and width factor can be configured by macros bigcdot@scalefactor and bigcdot@widthfactor.



documentclass{scrartcl}
usepackage{color}
usepackage{graphicx}

makeatletter
newcommand*{bigcdot}{}% Check if undefined
DeclareRobustCommand*{bigcdot}{%
mathbin{mathpalettebigcdot@{}}%
}
newcommand*{bigcdot@scalefactor}{.5}
newcommand*{bigcdot@widthfactor}{1.15}
newcommand*{bigcdot@}[2]{%
% #1: math style
% #2: unused
sbox0{$#1vcenter{}$}% math axis
sbox2{$#1cdotm@th$}%
hbox to bigcdot@widthfactorwd2{%
hfil
raiseht0hbox{%
scalebox{bigcdot@scalefactor}{%
lowerht0hbox{$#1bulletm@th$}%
}%
}%
hfil
}%
}
makeatother

begin{document}
[ a bigcdot b ]
%
% Comparison with cdot and bullet
[ a cdot b bigcdot c bullet d ]
%
% Different math styles
[ a bigcdot b quad
scriptstyle a bigcdot b quad
scriptscriptstyle a bigcdot b
]
%
% Visualization of the math axis
[
sbox0{${-}{cdot}{bigcdot}{bullet}{-}$}
rlap{copy0}%
vcenter{%
hbox{%
textcolor{red}{%
vrule widthwd0 height .05pt depth .05ptrelax
}%
}%
}
]
end{document}



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answered Mar 31 '18 at 23:23









Heiko OberdiekHeiko Oberdiek

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  • I love it! And some more words to exceed the character limit.

    – Simon
    Nov 13 '18 at 19:10





















  • I love it! And some more words to exceed the character limit.

    – Simon
    Nov 13 '18 at 19:10



















I love it! And some more words to exceed the character limit.

– Simon
Nov 13 '18 at 19:10







I love it! And some more words to exceed the character limit.

– Simon
Nov 13 '18 at 19:10













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a text{textbullet} b = 0


How about to use a text symbol instead?



At least it is simple!



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  • You should at least use a binop here.

    – John Dorian
    Apr 1 '18 at 9:13
















-1














a text{textbullet} b = 0


How about to use a text symbol instead?



At least it is simple!



enter image description here






share|improve this answer
























  • You should at least use a binop here.

    – John Dorian
    Apr 1 '18 at 9:13














-1












-1








-1







a text{textbullet} b = 0


How about to use a text symbol instead?



At least it is simple!



enter image description here






share|improve this answer













a text{textbullet} b = 0


How about to use a text symbol instead?



At least it is simple!



enter image description here







share|improve this answer












share|improve this answer



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answered Mar 20 '18 at 9:38









GyuHyeon ChoiGyuHyeon Choi

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  • You should at least use a binop here.

    – John Dorian
    Apr 1 '18 at 9:13



















  • You should at least use a binop here.

    – John Dorian
    Apr 1 '18 at 9:13

















You should at least use a binop here.

– John Dorian
Apr 1 '18 at 9:13





You should at least use a binop here.

– John Dorian
Apr 1 '18 at 9:13





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