# Use \overarc to represent an arc

I can not understand why the following tex file does not compile.

\documentclass{elsarticle}
\usepackage[hmargin=1in,vmargin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{arcs}

\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}
$\overarc{POQ}$ $+ \widehat{QOR} + \widehat{ROP}= 2\pi r$
\end{document}

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Unfortunately arcs seems to be broken. Look at tex.stackexchange.com/questions/15468/… if some of the answers can help you. –  egreg Dec 8 '12 at 0:12
Also see A better notation to denote arcs for an American high school textbook which uses a symbol from tipa (\texttoptiebar). –  Werner Mar 8 '13 at 20:41

Discussed for other oversymbols here Really wide hat symbol. Using scalerel, a variant of that solution is used here:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{scalerel}

\newcommand\reallywidehat[1]{%
\begin{array}{c}
\stretchto{
\scaleto{
\scalerel*[\widthof{#1}]{\bigwedge}
{\rule[-\textheight/2]{1ex}{\textheight}} %WIDTH-LIMITED BIG WEDGE
}{1.25\textheight} % THIS STRETCHES THE WEDGE A LITTLE EXTRA WIDE
}{0.5ex}\\           % THIS SQUEEZES THE WEDGE TO 0.5ex HEIGHT
#1\\                   % THIS STACKS THE WEDGE ATOP THE ARGUMENT
\rule{0ex}{.01ex}
\end{array}
}

\newcommand\reallywideparen[1]{%
\begin{array}{c}
\stretchto{
\scaleto{
\scalerel*[\widthof{#1}]{\frown}
{\rule[-\textheight/2]{1ex}{\textheight}} %WIDTH-LIMITED BIG WEDGE
}{1.25\textheight} % THIS STRETCHES THE WEDGE A LITTLE EXTRA WIDE
}{0.5ex}\\           % THIS SQUEEZES THE WEDGE TO 0.5ex HEIGHT
#1\\                   % THIS STACKS THE WEDGE ATOP THE ARGUMENT
\rule{0ex}{.01ex}
\end{array}
}

\begin{document}
$\reallywideparen{POQ}$ $+ \reallywidehat{QOR} + \reallywidehat{ROP}= 2\pi r$
\end{document}


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