[texhax] \sim symbol with text above it
Steven Lau
slau at turtle.net
Tue Oct 11 17:59:04 CEST 2005
Hi,
You could try \stackrel
\stackrel{iid}{\sim}
that is what I am using at the moment. If anyone finds a better/
more elegant way then I will be interested too!
Steven Lau
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:21:39AM -0400, Peter Flom wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am trying to typeset the \sim symbol (a tilde) with text ('iid')
> directly above it. I tried
> \sim^{iid} but this makes a 'usual' superscript (that is, to the right
> of the tilde)
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Peter
>
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