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From: Ingo Thies <ingo.thies@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: Symbol "lesser than" at gnuplot
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:51:50 +0100
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On 20.12.2011 08:32, Christoph Bersch wrote:

> Guillemets are quotation marks, the correct lesser-than symbol is ≪
> (U+226A).

The correct lesser-than symbol is simply <. The ≪ means "much lesser
than". Even more tricky is the "less than or equal to" symbol or the
"less than or approximately equal to" symbol. The latter doesn't even
exist in the standard LaTeX fonts.


Best wishes,

Ingo