[Tex/LaTex] how to put a \leq above a \geq which means either of the two situations?

symbols

I just saw this symbol in an article of 1990 and was curious about how to display it in latex, but haven't found any answers after googling.

Does anybody know that or tell me it is actually rarely used nowadays?

It's at the end of the paragraph. Thanks a lot!

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You already have two possibilities: \lessgtr and \lesseqgtr:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{ amssymb}
\begin{document} %

\[ a\lessgtr b\quad c\lesseqgtr d \]%

\end{document}

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}
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\end{document}

With xetex you can use e.g. dejavu sans (if you get the wrong glyph:make sure that you have only version of dejavu sans). Here too you can use commands/other notation if you don't want to use the symbol in the input:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
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You can add your own definitions. Eg. here an example how to copy an "a" as "A":

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}

\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\input{glyphtounicode}

\pdfglyphtounicode{a}{0041} %0041=A
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The main problem is naturally to find the names of the glyphs you are using. In case you know the font you can find the names in the afm or the pfb. You can also add \pdfcompresslevel=0 to your document and then inspect the pdf. Look for lines starting with /CharSet (there will be more than one if you use more than one font). E.g. if I add \int to the example I will find /CharSet (/integraltext) and integraltext is the name of the glyph.

In case that the symbol is not a single glyph or that its name is not unique or changes from one font family to the next you will probably need to use the accsupp-package. Is it possible to provide alternative text to use when copying text from the PDF?.

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