# How to use harpoon-style arrows over vectors, like this? [duplicate]

How do I typeset harpoon arrows that look like this in LaTeX?

I've tried the harpoon package's \overrightharpoon feature, but its arrowhead is too big/prominent... I'm hoping for something that looks more normal, like in the screenshot above.

How do I do this?

## marked as duplicate by Hendrik Vogt, lockstep, zeroth, Reinstate Monica - M. Schröder, ThorstenFeb 14 '13 at 11:58

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• You have asked here 13 questions before. Do you know what MWE is? – yo' Feb 14 '13 at 9:31

## 1 Answer

You could use \rightharpoonup and \overset (which needs the amsmath package). Because \overset{\rightharpoonup} is quite long, I would define a newcommand, like so:

\newcommand{\harpoon}{\overset{\rightharpoonup}}


Only the space above seems a little bit unpleasant. But it works just fine.

Code

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\newcommand{\harpoon}{\overset{\rightharpoonup}}

\begin{document}
$\Delta \overset{\rightharpoonup} L = \harpoon L_2 - \harpoon L_1 = \harpoon 0$
\end{document}


Result

• Yeah, the space above is definitely unpleasant, so I won't be using it. +1 for the answer though. – Mehrdad Feb 14 '13 at 10:27