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I'm working with proofs and math and I would like to have a package that contains symbols including therefore.

I'm currently using the Debian distribution of TeX Live, not the native. To my knowledge there is a package called amssymb that contains ∴ but it is not in the list of currently available Debian packages for LaTeX.

For now I found a macro someone created that looks like ∴ but it would be helpful to have a package that can do the same so I don't have to write it in every file.

Please let me know if there is a better place to ask this question or an alternate way to find a persistent solution to this.

Edit: Works now, not sure why it didn't before. Maybe I forgot to include the package.

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amssymb is part of the amsfonts collection. In Debian it is included as part of the package texlive-base; if you've "installed TeXLive" in any reasonable sense of the phrase using the Debian package manager, you should already have the amssymb package available on your system.

Willie Wong
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If you add \usepackage{amssymb} to your preamble (or any package which loads this), you can just write \therefore in maths mode. As Willie Wong says, if you have even a minimally functional installation of LaTeX, you already have this package.

If you are using non-default text fonts, you might want to use a different set of fonts for maths, too, but \therefore will be available in any reasonably comprehensive configuration.

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