[texhax] \underarc

[Shubho Roy]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina at gmail.com>
wrote:

> "Uwe Lueck" <uwe.lueck at web.de> writes:
>
> > On Dienstag, 08. September 2015 um 12:16 Uhr, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> >> I want to put a small arc under a letter or a group of letters, like a
> >> smile.  I see that `arcs' package can do what I want with the \underarc
> >> command; but don't know how to install and use it with plain TeX
> instead of
> >> LaTeX. Is it possibile, and how?
> >
> > Maybe I did not deny this explicitly enough previously, while I wrote
> that
> > the `arcs' package heavily uses LaTeX's font selection scheme. But I
> thought
> > that NFSS can be loaded with plain TeX. More about something like this:
> >
> >     http://www.tex.ac.uk/FAQ-fonts-pln.html
> >
> > which is too much for me. Still, you could not directly use the `arcs'
> > package, it has LaTeX commands like \newcommand and \symbol, and it
> > needs the `relsize' package which has commands like
> \DeclareRobustCommand.
> > Well, maybe after
> >
> >     \def\newcommand#1[1]{\def#1}
> >
> > and \DeclareRobustCommand likewise -- and \def\symbol#1{\char#1} ...
> > you can load arcs.sty. For me it is not obvious.
> >
> > \bye,
> >
> >     Uwe.
>
> Thanks indeed!  Maybe much too difficult for me.  For now, I'll use your
> very
> useful definition.  I love using plain TeX, but something it is
> discouraging to
> see how most of TeX system new utilities are thought and written only for
> LaTeX
> (not always, fortunately...).
>
> Regards,
>
> Rodolfo
>
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