topic Re: Greater/smaller or equal than sign... How can I do it? in Modeling

Greater/smaller or equal than sign... How can I do it?

Anonymous — Fri, 06 Aug 2004 07:23:08 GMT

I want a greater or equal than sign in a text box but I don't know how to do this. (I don't know the proper word for this sign in english...sorry). For now I simply draw an extra line under the greater than sign but it seems like a stupid way...
See attached image.
Cheers,
Mats

Re: Greater/smaller or equal than sign... How can I do it?

Aussie John — Fri, 06 Aug 2004 07:41:24 GMT

On a mac the keyboard combo is is option period ( option full stop) and makes greater than or equal to and option comma to less than or equal to. I would guess a PC is similar

As far as I know there is no single English word to describe these symbols

Re: Greater/smaller or equal than sign... How can I do it?

Dwight — Fri, 06 Aug 2004 10:16:36 GMT

Everything has a name.

In Fontographer terms these symbols are called, respectively:

"lessequal" and "greaterequal"

more obscure:

"~" is called a "tilde."

and, even more obscure:

otter poop is called "spraints."

Re: Greater/smaller or equal than sign... How can I do it?

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:04:06 GMT

Dwight wrote:
Everything has a name.

In Fontographer terms these symbols are called, respectively:

"lessequal" and "greaterequal"

more obscure:

"~" is called a "tilde."

and, even more obscure:

otter poop is called "spraints."

Haha!!!
It actually took me nearly half a minute to realize that otter poop has noooothing to do with something I should expect to find on my keyboard... I feel I have to do an otter poop line type for our future save the otters project... And maybe an otter poop object to enhance realism in my models...nuff said...

I still haven't found out how to make a lesserthan symbol within a text area on my PC....

Mats

Re: Greater/smaller or equal than sign... How can I do it?

Dwight — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:32:19 GMT

Note to keyboard users:
If your keyboard has otter poop on it, it is time to move away from the swamp.
Remember to use a gentle detergent and not a harsh abrasive cleaner.

Re: Greater/smaller or equal than sign... How can I do it?

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:35:02 GMT

mathome wrote:
I still haven't found out how to make a lesserthan symbol within a text area on my PC....

Mats

In Character Map, U+2264 and U+2265 are the two signs you are looking for. You can Copy-Paste these into a text block of ArchiCAD from the Character Map.

Re: Greater/smaller or equal than sign... How can I do it?

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 14:09:05 GMT

laszlonagy wrote:
mathome wrote:
I still haven't found out how to make a lesserthan symbol within a text area on my PC....

Mats
In Character Map, U+2264 and U+2265 are the two signs you are looking for. You can Copy-Paste these into a text block of ArchiCAD from the Character Map.

Well, thank you but I don't get it to work!? It works with MS Word...
If I make a new text block in AC 8.1 and paste the greater than or equal to sign I get another sign instead (I reccon because I dont use the symbol font...). It works with the symbol font but in 100% of the cases the little nasty sign is surrounded by plain text and I dont want to create three text blocks and the try to place them so the output looks like one textblock...
Maybe I have to bite the sour apple (classic swedish saying..)!?

? Mats

Re: Greater/smaller or equal than sign... How can I do it?

Djordje — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:05:03 GMT

mathome wrote:
Well, thank you but I don't get it to work!? It works with MS Word...

Encoding? Keyboard? Font?

On my XP Home, US keyboard, Arial, Less Than is U+033C, More Than U+033E

Re: Greater/smaller or equal than sign... How can I do it?

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:56:30 GMT

Found this post that is rather old but I've got the same problem in AC14.
It works to copy paste in text but if I want to place it as a prefix i a measurement it displays as equal.
Arial is used in both text and measurement.