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[ayala]

Hello community, I am new to this and I am looking for a specific symbol that I found in a book, the book is engineering, fluid mechanics, fundamentals and applications, is the image: I thank you if it is a special source or if it is a symbol created by the author, thank you very much in advance.

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[byn]

You can find the comprehensive symbols list from the link here;

http://tug.ctan.org/info/symbols/compre ... ols-a4.pdf

[ayala]

Thanks, I did not find the symbol, the book is from Mc Graw Hill, you do not have more documents to search by chance?

[byn]

See here; https://www.math.uci.edu/~xiangwen/pdf/ ... ymbols.pdf
https://www.caam.rice.edu/~heinken/latex/symbols.pdf
Also books by Stefan are good intro;
https://www.amazon.com/LaTeX-Beginners- ... 1801078653
https://www.amazon.com/LaTeX-Cookbook-S ... 1784395145

Some more refs;
https://math.mit.edu/~dspivak/files/symbols-all.pdf

[kaiserkarl13]

@byn, please stop posting links to symbols lists that don't carry the symbol asked for. It's not helpful.

I have spent some time looking for that same symbol myself. Let me guess: Çengel, Boles, and Kanoğlu, Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach, Ninth Edition; McGraw Hill: Singapore, 2020? I tried to emulate the same symbol as part of the thermodynamics package, and I eventually gave up and just told users not to use that symbol (I'm honestly not sure why they use it in the first place).

I did create the following versions, which require TikZ and aren't actual characters (and thus not all that robust with respect to font changes, etc.):

\usepackage{tikz}
\newcommand*{\convexV}{%
  {\tikz{\draw[line width=0.7pt] (0,0) .. controls (0.02,-0.22)
      .. (0.07,-0.23) .. controls (0.13,-0.20) .. (0.18,0);}}
}
\newcommand*{\convexlittleV}{%
  {\tikz{\draw[line width=0.7pt] (0,0) .. controls (0.03,-0.25)
      .. (0.06,-0.27) .. controls (0.12,-0.24) .. (0.2,0);}}
}

Then you can get an approximation to the symbol you wanted with \convexlittleV