Does this "approximately-equal-to"-like symbol have a name in Typst?

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I’m quite new to typst and I’m looking for the “APPROXIMATELY EQUAL TO OR THE IMAGE OF” symbol

≒ (U+2252)

which in LaTeX seems to be \fallingdotseq.

Is it given a name in typst? or does one need to use the unicode number to produce this?

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General Symbols – Typst Documentation and searching by eq: it’s named as eq.dots.down.

What the, I double checked with https://detypify.quarticcat.com/, but it wasn’t able to find it. neat.

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Even if it didn’t have a name, since Typst fully supports unicode input, you could just insert ≒ instead of \u{2252}, too. This is of course harder to type (you’d copy/paste, more likely) but is more readable in the source code.

Btw, if you’re very used to fallingdotseq, you could let fallingdotseq = sym.eq.dots.down, or if it didn’t have a name, let fallingdotseq = "≒".

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Thank you all who responded!

I wonder whether typst has a notion of operators. LaTeX adjusts spacings and line-breaking decisions around operators taking the natures of the symbols into account . . . That was the reason why I asked for the proper ways. If there are no such considerations . . . or if typst is so smart as to detect the nature of each symbol . . . all methods (\u{2252}, ≒, eq.dots.down) would be equivalent.

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See Text Operator Function – Typst Documentation & Class Function – Typst Documentation.

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