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I don't know why this is downvoted, it's overstating things a little but there's some truth to it for sure. The other day I was googling for the name of the \mid Latex math symbol. It's basically a pipe with some space around it, a separator line useful in definitions.

So I tried to google various variations of "separator line latex math" but it always synonymed them to include "line break latex", which is obviously "\\" and not what I want.



I've found Google totally useless for all things LaTeX and resorted to using LLMs.


Some people can't handle, or don't recognize, hyperbole.

It was written, and was meant to be read in, an exasperated and slightly dramatic tone. I thought that was obvious from the opening sentence, but apparently not.


Fwiw, the usual method for finding LaTeX symbols is Detexify: https://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html


Oh yeah, thanks for that. I actually knew about this but completely forgot it existed. Getting back into latex after not having used it for a while


For what it’s worth Kagi gets what you wanted (I think) in the first four results for your first search.




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