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Bookmark or Share- math mode - Making a thicker \cdot for dot product (that is ... - TeXThe vertical position is fixed to center the symbol vertically around the math axis as \cdot and \bullet do. The width of the symbol is not the scaled down width of the \bullet (with scaled down side bearings), but a little larger width of \cdot. The scale and width factor can be configured by macros \bigcdot@scalefactor and \bigcdot@widthfactor.
- \cdots and \dots, which one to use? - LaTeX Stack Exchange22. If you have to decide, decide between \ldots and \cdots which are the latex commands for low and centred dots, \dots is an amsmath command that tries to automatically make the choice for you and automatically switches between \ldots and \cdots depending on the following symbol. As a general rule, use \cdots if the following thing is ...
- Which dot character to use in which context? - TeX - TeX - LaTeX Stack ...The WP Dot product article uses the LaTeX \cdot character for dot products. Wikipedia shows a raised decimal point example "£21·48", which uses the "middle dot" character. Wikipedia notates chemistry hydrates like "CuSO4 · 5H2O", which uses the "middle dot" character. Combined units can also be written with a dot, like "N·m".
- When should \\cdot be used to indicate multiplication?Two circumstances come to mind: Multiplying actual numbers, as you say: 2 \cdot 2 versus 22 is obviously the way to go. More subtly, writing, say, 2 \cdot 3^4 is an improvement over 2 3^4 for the same reason. You might say "of course!" except that sometimes, if you have a pedantic input style (like me) you fool yourself: 2 {13}^2 looks like 213^2.
- symbols - Automatically use \cdot - TeX - LaTeX Stack ExchangeIf you don't like to type the \cdot command, you can use a shortcut that replaces the \cdot. This can be done "outside the LaTeX environment. Like an autocorrection. I'm using these things a lot, because sometimes I'm to lazy to type, but I want to keep the "correct" syntaxis, without some extra things than I will forget in a couple of months.
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