[texhax] Badly placed \widehat
Michael Barr
barr at math.mcgill.ca
Fri Oct 29 21:19:24 CEST 2010
On Fri, 29 Oct 2010, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
> Michael Barr wrote:
>
>> \documentstyle{article}
>> \def\bbrack#1{[\![#1]\!]}
>> \begin{document}
>> $\bbrack{\widehat c =\widehat d}$
>> \end{document}
>>
>> Yes, I could add extra space after the argument, but that is a real
>> kludge. My real question is why can't I get the \widehat to actually be
>> centered over its argument. As you can see, it starts halfway along the
>> "d" and ends well to the right. This is also true of the one on the "c"
>> so it is not just centering over an ascender.
>
> Is it not centered w.r.t. the italic slope ?
> ** Phil.
I don't really care what it is centered with respect to. It looks awful
and I don't expect tex to produce awful-looking output. In all cases it
ought to be centered over the glyph, not some extension of the slope.
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