On Mon, 27 Oct 2025, Mikael Sundqvist wrote:
> Hi Aditya,
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 4:48 AM Aditya Mahajan <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > 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]
>
> Good! There are
>
> \definemathtopaccent[\v!top:\v!stretch][wideoverleftarrow] ["20D6]
> \definemathtopaccent[\v!top:\v!stretch][wideoverrightarrow] ["20D7]
>
> so you could look at the setups to see if you want top or top:stretch
> (maybe you already did).
Thanks. I don't want stretch in my setup.
> > > 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.
>
> what is going on is that apparently stixtwo 20D7 has sty and ssty
> versions, but 20D6 does not. This seems to be the only (of the few I
> tested) fonts that has this. So, what happens is probably that we need
> to take care of that situation. (Do you use them in superscripts or
> was that just testing?)
I am translating a document from LaTeX to ConTeXt, where it is used in
superscripts. So even a hackish patch will be appreciated.
Thanks,
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