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Math mode accents
Choose the one you like:
% arara: lualatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\setmathfont{XITS math}
\begin{document}
Accents above:
\begin{itemize}
\item \...
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How to type special/accented letters in LaTeX?
Users looking to make common accents in regular text mode can do so with, for example, \'e.
MWE:
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\begin{document}
Alfred Land\'e.
\end{document}
Output:
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27
votes
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Trying to use "\~" to generate tilde symbol in math mode
The immediate problem is solved by replacing the text-mode instruction \~{A} with the math-mode directive \tilde{A}.
You may also want to make the equation both more compact and more readable by (a) ...
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26
votes
Which is the better way to do accents in LaTeX?
The only sane reason I can think of for giving in to your professor's preference concerns bibliographies and, specifically, bibliographies created with BibTeX and a bibliography style that sorts ...
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votes
What else do I need to produce two dots above o?
It is difficult to see in some editors, but in the first case you have \" acting on o, in the second: \' acting on ', hence the strange result.
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Toks\"{o}z
...
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21
votes
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How to bring bar and \sim symbol at the same level
By all means replace \overset{\sim}{u} with \tilde{u}. Optionally, replace \overline{\rho} with \bar{\rho}.
Here's a screenshot of u with various math-mode adornments.
\documentclass{article}
\...
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19
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Diacritics above dotted i (i with tittle)
In the definition files for output encodings, you can find the defined combinations that are substituted with precomposed accented characters; for instance, in t1enc.def we find
\DeclareTextComposite{...
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19
votes
Americanist Phonetic Alphabet (APA) Glottalized Plosive
This is encoded in Unicode as "Combining Comma Above" (U+0313} and with a suitable font and XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX can be entered directly. In the example below I've made a \glottal macro to make input ...
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17
votes
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Can LaTeX change the behavior of core TeX commands?
Firstly \" is not a tex primitive, it is a macro defined in plain tex and also a macro with a different definition defined in latex, so it isn't that latex changes this macro it just has a different ...
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17
votes
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What does `\a` do?
\a is a LaTeX core instruction for generating a letter with a diacritical mark.
\a{accent}{letter}
The command is intended for the case when the normal accent commands of the form \accent{letter} or \...
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votes
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Double-tilde over symbol
One of these?
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{accents}
\newcommand{\dbtilde}[1]{\accentset{\approx}{#1}}
\newcommand{\...
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votes
\bar vs. \overline - when to use what, semantically?
The accepted answer is great. The major practical considerations I’ve run into are when I’ve wanted to either put a bar over multiple symbols or put wide bars over two distinct adjacent symbols that ...
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How do I get two mathrings centered over a variable?
A modification of the \dddot macro of amsmath:
\documentclass{article}
\newcommand\ringring[1]{%
{% make an Ord atom
\mathop{\kern0pt #1}\limits^{% set a box over the variable
\vbox to-1....
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14
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Place a $\star$ over a letter as an accent
Some low level TeX is the easiest way:
\documentclass{article}
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\generic}{\textsf{Gener\istar c}}
\newcommand{\istar}{%
\leavevmode
\vbox{%
\offinterlineskip
\...
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14
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How to place a dot below for example: e?
Line 84 of latex/base/tuenc.def is
\relax\detokenize{#2}^^a0\else#2\fi
Please edit to say
\if\relax\detokenize{#2}\relax^^a0\else#2\fi
I'll get an update to the release this evening, sorry.
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pdfTeX warning: has been referenced but does not exist, replaced by a fixed one, with German Umlaut
I've had a similar problem, but I've "solved" it.
Online some people seemed to suggest this is to do with hyperref, but, I'm not convinced.
Loading hyperref last had no effect whatsoever.
In the ....
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Accent in letters over a Letter
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{stackengine,graphicx}
\begin{document}
$\ensurestackMath{\stackengine{.5pt}{\tau}{\scriptscriptstyle e-m}
{O}{c}{F}{F}{S}}$
or
$\ensurestackMath{\stackengine{1pt}{...
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13
votes
Double-tilde over symbol
A variation on my answer here: double tilde symbol under letter. Here, \tsup takes an optional argument specifying the number of symbols to overset (default 2).
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{...
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13
votes
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Fun titles by splitting in letters (or words)
You can make the argument of \aux delimited by a space, so it operates word-by-word, rather than token-by-token (which is why it doesn't work with accented characters: they are made of multiple tokens)...
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12
votes
Accented Character in ornamental drop-caps using Zallman Caps
If you are willing to buy a font, some sites let you search for the existence of a particular character (e.g., myfonts.com). But you won’t find many sets of ornamental initials that include Ś.
If you ...
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Side by side hats
Here I provide \dhat{} and take the effort to account for the slant by adding an \hspace equal to 0.2\ht0 where the argument has been stuffed in the 0 box (I am assuming a slant value [tan(slantangle)]...
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12
votes
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How to denote the fifth derivative in Newton’s notation?
The problem is that each macro has to be defined, and there is only up to \ddddot.
So I made two macros: \dddddot, and \multidots. For both of them I copied the definition of \ddddot and added dots.
...
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12
votes
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Engine problem? Creating dynamic diacritics using the Brill typeface
The XeTeX behavior is a combination of HarfBuzz “features” and font limitations.
Unicode has something called canonical equivalence. When a certain code point sequence is said to be canonically ...
12
votes
How to write an equal sign above a letter
I'd like to suggest that you load the amsmath package and write \bar{\bar{I}} -- in math mode, naturally.
\documentclass{article} % or some other suitable document class
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{...
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11
votes
Really wide hat symbol
An alternative (and very simple) solution consists in using the package yhmath (which, as far as I was able to understand from its documentation, requires the amsmath package).
With such a package (i....
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votes
accent above a greek letter
Use \acute{} in mathmode:
$\acute{\omega}$
Other accents in mathmode:
\documentclass{article}
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.5}
\begin{document}
\section*{Accents in mathmode}
$\begin{array}{...
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votes
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What does symbol ~ do in Latex?
As stated in the comments ~ inserts a non-breaking space. This means that you tell the typesetting algorithm that it should not insert a linebreak here. This is useful when making references. For ...
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11
votes
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Missing Arabic Ligature due to diacritical marks in ConTeXt MarkIV
Ideally, one could fix the problem using an OpenType feature file loaded at runtime through a ConTeXt typescript. In practice, that's not (yet) possible; as Hans Hagen told me
the new font loaders ...
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11
votes
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How to define MSB or LSB of a binary number
A combination of \overset and \substack lets you position the labels and the arrows above the respective digits. To assure that the presence of the labels doesn't affect the spacing of the digits, use ...
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