# Mirror tilde accent

Does anybody know if there is a "mirror" tilde accent command in any package? That is, the "wiggling" of the tilde accent going in the other direction.

Something like defining this \backtilde command:

\newcommand{\backtilde}[1]{\overset{\backsim}{#1}}


but not quite. The kerning, sizes, etc... are not the same as with the \tilde{} command.

Related to this: a mirror version of the \vec{} accentuation.

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The accents package turns out to be useful:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{accents,graphicx}

\newcommand{\backtildeacc}{%
\raisebox{-1.25ex}[.3ex][0pt]{\reflectbox{\char"7E}}%
}
\newcommand{\btilde}[1]{\accentset{\backtildeacc}{#1}}

\begin{document}
$\tilde{A}\btilde{A}$

\fboxsep=0pt
\fbox{$\btilde{A}$}\fbox{$\tilde{A}$}
\end{document}


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That's it! Thanks! –  Andres Oct 28 '13 at 15:52
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Try \backsim from the amssymb package. See the image below

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I did. This is the command I proposed within my question, but the results are not equivalent. –  Andres Oct 28 '13 at 15:10
Oh, sorry. What do you mean by other direction? –  Sigur Oct 28 '13 at 15:11
The direction is OK, is just if you compare putting a \overset{\backsim}{A} with \tilde{A} you will see the difference. –  Andres Oct 28 '13 at 15:13

You can scale your backsim like this:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}

\begin{document}
$\tilde{A}$

$\overset{\backsim}{A}$

$\overset{\scalebox{0.5}{\backsim}}{A}$
\end{document}
`

Still not totally the same, but it could be used as workaround...

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It does look better. Thanks. –  Andres Oct 28 '13 at 15:42