Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!jhunix!jeburke
From: jeburke@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (John Burke)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Where in Leslie Lamport's LaTeX manual is this?
Summary: How do I spell relief?
Keywords: caret, LaTeX
Message-ID: <3367@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 21 Nov 89 16:26:28 GMT
References: <2598@goanna.oz.au>
Reply-To: jeburke@jhunix.UUCP (John Burke)
Followup-To: comp.text
Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF
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In article <2598@goanna.oz.au> isaac@goanna.oz.au (Isaac Balbin) writes:
>Someone waltzed into my office the other day and asked, 
>"How do I get a caret symbol as part of a \section title?..."
>... How do _you_ handle
>this problem?

Around here, we've found the sequence 
   $\^{ }$
to be generally satisfactory for the caret.  A slightly different
effect can be got using the mathaccent, eg
   \hat{ }
I don't recall ever having tried this latter in a section header, but
it should work in one.

We use the same general strategy for printing the tilde, ~, and for
the backslash we define a macro \bs:
   \newcommand{\bs}{$\backslash$}
which seems robust.

John Burke
Engineering Specialist