Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!hardy From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: LaTeX, dvips problem on NeXT Message-ID: Date: 22 Apr 91 05:20:07 GMT References: <1991Apr21.185447.26921@athena.mit.edu> Organization: U.C.Irvine, Dept. of Physics Lines: 34 Nntp-Posting-Host: golem.ps.uci.edu In-reply-to: lastole@athena.mit.edu's message of 21 Apr 91 18:54:47 GMT Cc: rokicki@neon.stanford.edu In article <1991Apr21.185447.26921@athena.mit.edu> lastole@athena.mit.edu (Lars A Stole) writes: >> >> Whenever I compile a LaTeX document which uses overhead characters >> (like \hat or \tilde), the dvips program, as well as TeXView, place the >> overhead character in the middle of the word, rather than over it. >> This problem seems only to occur when I do not use the cmr fonts. >> E.g., if I use times.sty (or palatino, ncs, etc.) I get this problem. >> Is there a simple fix? times.sty is supposed to use cmr fonts for math, >> so there shouldn't be a problem because there isn't one when I use cmr >> fonts exclusively. Any suggestions would be appreciated. >> There seems indeed to be a slight problem with the placing of \hats and \tilde's in \documentstyle[times]{article}: I tried: Let $x=({\hat x}^1, x^2)$ and $y=({\tilde y}^1, y^2, y^3)$ be and got the hat and tilde UNDER the x and y, respectively. However Let $x=(\widehat x^1, x^2)$ and $y=(\widetilde y^1, y^2, y^3)$ be worked fine and the hat and tilde are exactly where they should be (without the { } grouping \hat and \tilde also appear under the letters, so I assume there must be something wrong with the interacrtion of th tfm files. (Same thing also happens in palatino, which TeXview cannot handle properly; but not if cmr-fonts are used.) Hope the cc: to Tom Rokicki will lear this up; in the meantime use \widehat and \widetilde! Greetings, Hardy -------****------- Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy); Department of Physics, University of California Irvine CA 92717; (714) 856 5543; hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET