A chevron above a consonant, like a tilde

Question

I want to put a wedge above a character, like a tilde can place, over an "S" or a "K".

The MWE:

\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
K_{ij}=\^{K}_{i,(1+j-i)} \qquad \text{para} \qquad i & =1,2,...,\text{NGDL};\\
j & = i,i+1,...,\text{SAB}+i \leq \text{NGDL}\\ 
\end{split}
\end{equation}

The K shows without the chevron.

Do you mean a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caron or a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumflex ? Please post an image of what you search, explain, where you have already searched (saving us from searching there, too) and give an MWE which shows your font setting. Are you willing to use Lua- or XeLaTeX? — LaRiFaRi, May 04 '15 at 08:04
As LaRiFaRi indicates, in math mode you need to use \hat for a circumflex accent. — Andrew Swann, May 04 '15 at 08:39
@AndrewSwann credits go to Mathew. Voted to close as duplicate, though. — LaRiFaRi, May 04 '15 at 08:42

Mathew Carrick · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-04T08:40:15.683

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For a caron, use \v{a} to get ǎ.

For a circumflex, use \^{a} to get â.

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
A caron, \v{a}, and a circumflex, \^{a}.
\end{document}

In math mode, try \hat{a} for a hat:

\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
K_{ij}=\hat{K}_{i,(1+j-i)} \qquad \text{para} \qquad i & =1,2,...,\text{NGDL};\\
j & = i,i+1,...,\text{SAB}+i \leq \text{NGDL}\\ 
\end{split}
\end{equation}

For a full list of basic LaTeX accents, see this WikiBooks page.

edited May 04 '15 at 08:40

answered May 04 '15 at 08:08

Mathew Carrick

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Welcome to TeX.SX and thanks a lot for answering and participating here. If you have time, make your example a minimal working example (MWE) as this is best practise here and makes it easy to reproduce your suggestion. – LaRiFaRi May 04 '15 at 08:16
I edited my question. I tried with both of them, but I didn't get the results. – Isai May 04 '15 at 08:34
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What version of LaTeX are you using? Try using \hat{a} for math mode. – Mathew Carrick May 04 '15 at 08:38
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It works with \hat{}. – Isai May 04 '15 at 08:41
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You also can try \widehat (depending on the width of the text – probably widehat{W} will look better than \hat{W}). – Bernard May 04 '15 at 08:45
Now, that Mathew provided a fully working example, there's no reason to maintain the downvote... so unknown downvoter, come on... remove it! – May 04 '15 at 20:36

A chevron above a consonant, like a tilde

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