[Framers] I need a "hat" in an equation

[Alan Litchfield]

My preference is to use TeX/LaTeX to produce a pdf of the equation. To 
be honest, I never really had a lot of joy with Frame's equation editor 
and the output from TeX is far superior to most other tools.

You can make your learning curve shallower by using one of the many 
online LaTeX equation tools. They all do pretty much the same thing 
because they all use pretty much the same binaries to do it with.

Without thorough testing, this tool seems to provide what I would be 
looking for (direct input of TeX code, pdf output, some examples):
https://www.latex4technics.com

Here is where you can learn about writing the code:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Mathematics

Here is a link to all the symbols you might want (all 14032 of them)
http://tug.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf
Go to page 100 to find the hat code and other diacritics. e.g. \hat{W}
vs \mathring{W} or \bar{a}

Alan


On 21/05/16 4:05 am, Lin Sims wrote:
> One of my engineers gave me a Word document that has an equation I need to
> reproduce in Frame. One of the letters in that equation is a capital W with
> what Word describes as a "hat". Essentially, it look like a left angle
> bracket rotated 90 degrees to point up that has been placed over the W. It
> is VERY visible.
>
> I cannot figure out how to reproduce it. I've tried using the equation
> editor's diacritic marks, but the mark is too small and too high above the
> letter. I've tried using the W-character-with-the-circumflex, but again,
> the mark is too small to see, and this time it's close enough to the letter
> that it's hard to distinguish it. I thought about using repositioning to
> move a larger angle over the letter, but I can't find anything like that in
> the character sets (still looking).
>
> Anyone have any ideas? Getting MathML isn't an option. If worse comes to
> worst, I'll screenshot the bloody thing, but I hate doing that sort of
> workaround. It feels sloppy.
>

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