lastole@athena.mit.edu (Lars A Stole) (04/22/91)
This question may be more appropriate for comp.text.tex, but I'll ask it here anyway on the chance that my problem is specific to the NeXT implementation of LaTeX. Whenever I compile a LaTeX document which uses overhead characters (like \hat or \tilde), the dvips program, as well as TeXView, place the overhead character in the middle of the word, rather than over it. This problem seems only to occur when I do not use the cmr fonts. E.g., if I use times.sty (or palatino, ncs, etc.) I get this problem. Is there a simple fix? times.sty is supposed to use cmr fonts for math, so there shouldn't be a problem because there isn't one when I use cmr fonts exclusively. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Lars Stole MIT, Dept. of Economics
hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) (04/22/91)
In article <1991Apr21.185447.26921@athena.mit.edu> lastole@athena.mit.edu (Lars A Stole) writes: >> >> Whenever I compile a LaTeX document which uses overhead characters >> (like \hat or \tilde), the dvips program, as well as TeXView, place the >> overhead character in the middle of the word, rather than over it. >> This problem seems only to occur when I do not use the cmr fonts. >> E.g., if I use times.sty (or palatino, ncs, etc.) I get this problem. >> Is there a simple fix? times.sty is supposed to use cmr fonts for math, >> so there shouldn't be a problem because there isn't one when I use cmr >> fonts exclusively. Any suggestions would be appreciated. >> There seems indeed to be a slight problem with the placing of \hats and \tilde's in \documentstyle[times]{article}: I tried: Let $x=({\hat x}^1, x^2)$ and $y=({\tilde y}^1, y^2, y^3)$ be and got the hat and tilde UNDER the x and y, respectively. However Let $x=(\widehat x^1, x^2)$ and $y=(\widetilde y^1, y^2, y^3)$ be worked fine and the hat and tilde are exactly where they should be (without the { } grouping \hat and \tilde also appear under the letters, so I assume there must be something wrong with the interacrtion of th tfm files. (Same thing also happens in palatino, which TeXview cannot handle properly; but not if cmr-fonts are used.) Hope the cc: to Tom Rokicki will lear this up; in the meantime use \widehat and \widetilde! Greetings, Hardy -------****------- Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy); Department of Physics, University of California Irvine CA 92717; (714) 856 5543; hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET