%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 11-8-1 on page II-209 in "Mathematical symbol classes".
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{tlc3examargin}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{111.0pt}

  % Shorten the vertical size of the example ...
  \AtBeginDocument{%
    \setlength\abovedisplayskip{.5\abovedisplayskip}%
    \setlength\belowdisplayskip{.5\belowdisplayskip}%
  }

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage[fleqn]{amsmath}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\[ a          \#          \top _x^\alpha x^\alpha_b \]
\[ a \mathrel{\#} \mathop{\top}_x^\alpha x^\alpha_b \]
\end{document}