[Tex/LaTex] Small cross and small upside down cross symbols

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I need a cross symbol, similar to \dagger, but optimally less fancy, smaller (not as long vertical line below the crossing) and without having to load a special symbol package (besides amsmath). The letter "t" without the bottom curve would do.

I also need the cross upside down (for mathematical and not religious reasons…). If I use sth. like \newcommand{\rotatedCross}{\ensuremath{\rotatebox[origin=c]{180}{\ensuremath{\dagger}}}}%, I get error messages if I use \rotatedCross inside other complex commands (use of \complexCommand doesn't match its definition). So the same cross upside down as own symbol (or a simpler solution than rotatebox) would be perfect.

Best Answer

A solution that uses simple rules:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\newcommand*{\crosssymbol}{%
% \mathbin{%
    \text{%
      \raise 1ex\hbox{%
        \rlap{\vrule height.2pt depth.2pt width .75ex}%
        \hbox to .75ex{\hss\vrule height .5ex depth 1ex\hss}%
      }%
    }%  
% }%
}
\newcommand*{\crossupsidedown}{%
% \mathbin{%
    \text{%
      \raise .5ex\hbox{%
        \rlap{\vrule height.2pt depth.2pt width .75ex}%
        \hbox to .75ex{\hss\vrule height 1ex depth .5ex\hss}%
      }%
    }%  
% }%
}

\begin{document}
$\dag\,\crosssymbol\crossupsidedown\,\mathsf{t}$
\end{document}

The same file translated into "pure LaTeX":

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\newcommand*{\crosssymbol}{%
% \mathbin{%
    \text{%
      \raisebox{1ex}{%
        \makebox[0pt][l]{%
          \rule[-.2pt]{.75ex}{.4pt}%
        }%  
        \makebox[.75ex]{%
          \rule[-1ex]{.4pt}{1.5ex}%
        }%
      }%
    }%  
% }%    
}   
\newcommand*{\crossupsidedown}{%
% \mathbin{%
    \text{%
      \raisebox{.5ex}{%
        \makebox[0pt][l]{%
          \rule[-.2pt]{.75ex}{.4pt}%
        }%
        \makebox[.75ex]{%
          \rule[-.5ex]{.4pt}{1.5ex}%
        }%
      }%
    }%
% }%
}

\begin{document}
\(\dag\,\crosssymbol\crossupsidedown\,\mathsf{t}\)
\end{document}

Remarks:

I do not know the purpose of the symbols, therefore you might want to add \mathbin or \mathrel to get the horizontal spacing right.

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[Tex/LaTex] Page upside down

You have two options to fix this behaviour.

ps2pdf automatically rotates landscape-like pages during processing. Since that is the case with your sidewaystable page, this page is rotated in the display, and subsequently in print as well. Supplying the option distiller option -dAutoRotatePages=/None to Ghostscript should leave the landscape pages in their original portrait orientation.
Use pdflatex directly. This circumvents the above requirement all together.

[Tex/LaTex] How to have upside down text in body

See the last edit for automatic toggling

You can define a new environment Answer based on your answer environment:

\usepackage{environ}
\NewEnviron{Answer}
{%
\noindent
\rotatebox[origin=c]{180}{%
\noindent
\begin{minipage}[t]{\linewidth}
\begin{answer}
\BODY
\end{answer}%
\end{minipage}%
}%
}%

Full code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{rotating}

\usepackage[framemethod=tikz]{mdframed}
\newtheorem{question}{Question}
\mdfdefinestyle{que}{
  linecolor=cyan,
  backgroundcolor=cyan!20,
}
\surroundwithmdframed[style=que]{question}

\newtheorem{answer}{Answer}
\mdfdefinestyle{ans}{
  linecolor=cyan,
  backgroundcolor=yellow!20
  % , rotatebox
}
\surroundwithmdframed[style=ans]{answer}

\usepackage{environ}
\NewEnviron{Answer}
{%
\noindent
\rotatebox[origin=c]{180}{%
\noindent
\begin{minipage}[t]{\linewidth}
\begin{answer}
\BODY
\end{answer}%
\end{minipage}%
}%
}%


\begin{document}
\begin{question}
\textbf{E.coli.}
Escherichia coli ...
\end{question}
\begin{Answer}
Lorem ipsum is not an answer to this question but this text will provide some dummy answer for two lines all together.
\end{Answer}
\end{document}

enter image description here

Making it to difficult to read?. Here we go:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{rotating}

\usepackage[framemethod=tikz]{mdframed}
\newtheorem{question}{Question}
\mdfdefinestyle{que}{
  linecolor=cyan,
  backgroundcolor=cyan!20,
}
\surroundwithmdframed[style=que]{question}

\newtheorem{answer}{Answer}
\mdfdefinestyle{ans}{
  linecolor=cyan,
  backgroundcolor=yellow!20
  % , rotatebox
}
\surroundwithmdframed[style=ans]{answer}

\usepackage{environ}
\NewEnviron{Answer}
{%
\noindent
\reflectbox{\rotatebox[origin=c]{180}{%
\noindent
\begin{minipage}[t]{\linewidth}
\begin{answer}
\BODY
\end{answer}%
\end{minipage}%
}%
}}%


\begin{document}
\begin{question}
\textbf{E.coli.}
Escherichia coli ...
\end{question}
\begin{Answer}
Lorem ipsum is not an answer to this question but this text will provide some dummy answer for two lines all together.
\end{Answer}
\end{document}

enter image description here

With

\NewEnviron{Answer}
{%
\noindent
\scalebox{1}[-1]{\rotatebox[origin=c]{180}{%
\noindent
\begin{minipage}[t]{\linewidth}
\begin{answer}
\BODY
\end{answer}%
\end{minipage}%
}%
}}%

one gets

enter image description here

but beware of those who bring mirrors ;)

In fact, with \scalebox alone, the former orientations can be achieved without using \rotatebox.

Last edit:

If you want to automatically show/hide answers here is a way. See the commented code lines

%\setboolean{answers}{true}  %%% uncomment to show answers properly
\setboolean{answers}{false}  %%% comment to show answers properly

Full code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{rotating}

\usepackage[framemethod=tikz]{mdframed}
\newtheorem{question}{Question}
\mdfdefinestyle{que}{
  linecolor=cyan,
  backgroundcolor=cyan!20,
}
\surroundwithmdframed[style=que]{question}

\newtheorem{answer}{Answer}
\mdfdefinestyle{ans}{
  linecolor=cyan,
  backgroundcolor=yellow!20
  % , rotatebox
}
\surroundwithmdframed[style=ans]{answer}

\usepackage{environ}
\usepackage{ifthen}
\newboolean{answers}
%\setboolean{answers}{true}  %%% uncomment to show answers properly
\setboolean{answers}{false}  %%% comment to show answers properly


\ifthenelse{\boolean{answers}}%
  {%
  \NewEnviron{Answer}
    {%
    \noindent
    \begin{minipage}[t]{\linewidth}
        \begin{answer}
            \BODY
        \end{answer}%
    \end{minipage}%  here put what the command has to do when outside
        }%
}%
    {\NewEnviron{Answer}
    {%
    \noindent
    \scalebox{1}[-1]{%
    \noindent
    \begin{minipage}[t]{\linewidth}
        \begin{answer}
            \BODY
        \end{answer}%
    \end{minipage}%
       }%
    }%
}%


\begin{document}
\begin{question}
\textbf{E.coli.}
Escherichia coli ...
\end{question}
\begin{Answer}
Lorem ipsum is not an answer to this question but this text will provide some dummy answer for two lines all together.
\end{Answer}
\end{document}

With

\setboolean{answers}{false}

we get:

enter image description here

With

\setboolean{answers}{true}

we get:

enter image description here

With optional argument

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{rotating}

\usepackage[framemethod=tikz]{mdframed}
\newtheorem{question}{Question}
\mdfdefinestyle{que}{
  linecolor=cyan,
  backgroundcolor=cyan!20,
}
\surroundwithmdframed[style=que]{question}

\newtheorem{answer}{Answer}
\mdfdefinestyle{ans}{
  linecolor=cyan,
  backgroundcolor=yellow!20
  % , rotatebox
}
\surroundwithmdframed[style=ans]{answer}

\usepackage{environ}

\def\invert{-1}
 \NewEnviron{Answer}[1][1]%
    {%
    \noindent
    \scalebox{1}[#1]{%
    \noindent
    \begin{minipage}[t]{\linewidth}%
        \begin{answer}
            \BODY
        \end{answer}%
    \end{minipage}%
       }%
    }%

\begin{document}
\begin{question}
\textbf{E.coli.}
Escherichia coli ...
\end{question}
\begin{Answer}
Lorem ipsum is not an answer to this question but this text will provide some dummy answer for two lines all together.
\end{Answer}

\begin{question}
\textbf{E.coli.}
Escherichia coli ...
\end{question}
\begin{Answer}[\invert] 
Lorem ipsum is not an answer to this question but this text will provide some dummy answer for two lines all together.
\end{Answer}
\end{document}

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