Rescaling `\check` symbol

Question

I would like to rescale \check symbol but not for the whole document. For example,

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{asana-math}

\begin{document}

this is a normal \check symbol $\check{u}$, but in $\check{U}$ 
I want the check symbol to be larger

\end{document}

How much larger would you like the symbol to be? – Mico Nov 16 '16 at 19:28 — Mico, Nov 16 '16 at 19:28

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 16 '16 at 22:53

3

Strangely enough, unicode-math doesn't define \widecheck; you can do it yourself.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\setmainfont{TeX Gyre Pagella}
\setmathfont{Asana Math}

\def\removefixed#1fixed #2\removefixed#3{%
  \protected\def#3{#1 #2}%
}

\AtBeginDocument{\expandafter\removefixed\check\removefixed\widecheck}

\begin{document}

this is a normal \verb|\check| symbol $\check{u}$, but in $\widecheck{U}$
I want the check symbol to be larger

\end{document}

answered Nov 16 '16 at 22:53

egreg

1,121,712

that was my main concern. i didn't know how possible is to define your own sympbols. i thought that you hane to 'stuck' with its package's symbols – Yorgos Nov 17 '16 at 09:29
@Yorgos I think that unicode-math should provide it. – egreg Nov 17 '16 at 09:30
i couldn't agree more – Yorgos Nov 17 '16 at 09:31
@Yorgos Filed issue report: https://github.com/wspr/unicode-math/issues/372 – egreg Nov 17 '16 at 12:03

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 16 '16 at 19:41

2

The mathabx package provides a \widecheck macro.

Since I don't have the asana-math package on my system, the following example uses LuaLaTeX and the unicode-math package to specify Asana Math as the OpenType math font.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mathabx} % for '\widecheck' macro
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\setmathfont[Scale=MatchLowercase]{Asana Math}
\begin{document}
$\check{u}$ $\widecheck{U}$
\end{document}

answered Nov 16 '16 at 19:41

Mico

506,678

the problem is that i need to define my own theorems and so i need to load \mathtools in order to use \newtheorem command. However, i cannot use both mathabx and mathtools packages – Yorgos Nov 16 '16 at 19:49
@Yorgos - Have you tried loading mathtools before mathabx? – Mico Nov 16 '16 at 19:53
yes.. i get an error that \circ is already defined – Yorgos Nov 16 '16 at 19:55
@Yorgos - That's strange -- I get no such error. Which TeX distribution do you use? – Mico Nov 16 '16 at 19:59
i use TeXLive 2016 – Yorgos Nov 16 '16 at 20:00
1

@Yorgos - The loading sequence ordering should be mathtools, mathabx, unicode-math -- or asana-math, I suppose, but that's a package I don't have and hence can't test. Is that's what you're doing? – Mico Nov 16 '16 at 20:04
the problem was that the first package i loaded was unicode-math. Thanks for everything!!! – Yorgos Nov 16 '16 at 20:07
@Yorgos - Glad this issue got solved in the end. – Mico Nov 16 '16 at 20:07
2

standard warning that mathabx changes all symbols. to avoid that: Importing a single symbol from a different font – barbara beeton Nov 16 '16 at 21:37
@barbarabeeton - Excellent advice indeed! :-) – Mico Nov 16 '16 at 21:44

Rescaling `\check` symbol

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