# Re: MathML arrow fonts

• To: taco.hoekwater@wkap.nl
• Subject: Re: MathML arrow fonts
• From: Hans Aberg <haberg@matematik.su.se>
• Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 23:11:36 +0100
• Cc: math-font-discuss@cogs.susx.ac.uk, vojta@math.berkeley.edu
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```At 12:38 -0800 1998/11/18, Paul Vojta wrote:
>> Have a look at chars 105/107. Are these the ones intended?
>>
>> they are labeled "simrightarrow" and "simleftarrow".
>
>Yes, but I would make the \sim part larger.  For example, if you took
>\simeq from the AMS fonts

This is also defined in PlainTeX.

> and put an arrow head on the right, then that
>would look more like what I would expect.

I agree with Paul on this: These labels on the shaft can be larger. In TeX
these labels are also put rather long away out from the shaft; I think that
putting the labels more away from the shaft is allowable if it looks good
in graphics, but it is not necessary to go as far as TeX does it.

Hans Aberg
* Email: Hans Aberg <mailto:haberg@member.ams.org>