Math & Science ⇒ wasysym | "because" Equivalent to '\wasytherefore'

[ghostanime2001]

How can I get the "because" or "since" symbol opposite to \wasytherefore (meaning upside down three dots) to be used in equations. Also, if I can set another \because symbol to be used with the same formatting as wasysym then that would work out so good for my document. Thanks.

[localghost]

Did you take a look at »The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List«? Perhaps Detexify can also be helpful. As a random shot I would guess that the amssymb package offers both symbols. Then wasysym would be superfluous.


Thorsten

[ghostanime2001]

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\documentclass[fleqn]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}   
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{wasysym}
\setlength{\parindent}{0in}
\begin{document}
$\because$ Hello world How are you? \\ \\
$\wasytherefore$ Hello world How are you?
\end{document}

It doesn't make sense to me why the author wouldn't include let's say \wasybecause exists complementary to \wasytherefore symbol. As can be seen in the attachment the \wasytherefore aligns perfectly with the baseline of the text. I was a little dissapointed why the author would include one and not the other.

If there is a way to align this symbol (\because) like \wasytherefore with the baseline of the text that's what I'm looking for.

[localghost]

Good grief! Then go search for other solutions which are not far to seek.

• Take both symbols from »amssymb«. They are aligned equally bad.
• Search for alternative symbols and their packages in the already mentioned document.
• Use \raisebox for the bad aligned symbol.
• Complain to the package author.

And next time, please reduce attached pictures to only relevant content and don't post almost complete screen dumps.

[ghostanime2001]

I just thought of an alternate solution, why not just flip \wasytherefore to become a fake \because symbol ?

[localghost]

There we go! Looking forward to your ideas.

[ghostanime2001]

except I don't know how to do that

[localghost]

Your idea is not bad, but to me seems too roundabout. I already referred you to the \raisebox command. And now you only need to go one step further. Together with the symbols of »amssymb« you can get what you want.

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{amssymb}

\setlength{\parindent}{0in}

\begin{document}
\raisebox{0.75pt}{$\because$} Hello world How are you?

\raisebox{0.75pt}{$\therefore$} Hello world How are you?
\end{document}