On Sun, 26 Oct 2025, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I tweak the distance between an accent and a letter in math mode? I
> want to use $\overleftarrow{x}$ and $\overrightarrow{x}$ and ideally I'd like
> both of them to be visually placed at the same location as $\vec$, but they
> are too high for my preference. How can I change that. (I want to do this
> with stixtwo, if that matters).
Actually, I realized that unicode has a left pointing vector accent as well.
So, I can get what I want by simply defining
\definemathtopaccent[\v!top][cev]["20D6]
\definemathtopaccent[\v!top][vec]["20D7]
> In the second example in $a^{\vec{π}}$ the vector has incorrect horizontal
> spacing, but that is a separate issue I guess.
This remains with stixtwo. It is not present with \cev, so not sure what is
going on.
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