Delta-equal to symbol
How about \triangleq
from the AMS fonts? Loading \usepackage{amssymb}
will make the command available
EDITED to ensure rendering of the =
in math mode. For more flexibility in the vertical placement, than the \overset
(which requires amsmath
package), you could try
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{stackengine}
\def\delequal{\mathrel{\ensurestackMath{\stackon[1pt]{=}{\scriptstyle\Delta}}}}
\begin{document}
$a \delequal b$
\end{document}
The optional argument to \stackon
specifies the vertical gap between symbols. If you wanted the delta smaller, you could add \scriptscriptstyle
in place of the \scriptstyle
:
For comparison, here is $a \overset{\Delta}{=} b$
. Note the vertical offset is significantly larger than what I proposed.