overarc

overarc

[David Arnold]

All,

How can I place an overarc over some text, such as in \overarc{AB}?

D.
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Re: overarc

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, David Arnold wrote:

> All,
>
> How can I place an overarc over some text, such as in \overarc{AB}?

Currently, there is no such feature. Are you looking at the functionality 
of the arcs package of latex? If so, it will be easy to add it to ConTeXt. 
The main trouble is that the glyph for \overarc is missing from the fonts. 
Arcs.sty takes the glyphs for \frown and \smile, and scales them 
appropriately. An ugly solution, but it looks ok if you are just placing 
it over one or two letters.

I cannot translate the code to ConTeXt right now, so am posting it here 
incase someone wants to give it a shot.

\newcommand{\overarc}[2][1]{\over@under@arc{#1}{#2}\z@}
\newcommand{\underarc}[2][1]{\over@under@arc{#1}{#2}\@ne}
\newcommand{\over@under@arc}[3]{%
   \leavevmode
   \hbox {%
     \setbox\z@ = \hbox {#2}%
     \ifdim \ht\z@ = \z@ %      arc over/under space
       \ifdim \dp\z@ = \z@
         \ht\z@ = 1ex\relax
       \fi
     \fi
     \dimen@ = #1\wd\z@
     \begingroup
     \let \rs@size@warning = \@gobbletwo
     \relsize{-10}%
     \wd\@ne = \z@
     \@whiledim \wd\@ne < .95\dimen@ \do {%
     %AM: This loops keeps on increasing the fontsize
     %by 1 until the width of the glyph increases the width of
     %of box zero.
       \ifx \@currsize \Huge
         \dimen@ = \z@
       \else
         $%AM: Really? Load the font for each font size!
         \skip@ = \f@baselineskip
         \fontencoding{OML}\fontfamily{cmm}\fontseries{m}%
         \fontshape{it}\fontsize{\ssf@size}{\skip@}\selectfont
         \global \setbox\@ne = \hbox {%
            \hss\symbol{"5\ifnum #3=\z@ F\else E\fi}\hss}%
         \ifdim \wd\@ne < \dimen@
           \fontsize{\sf@size}{\skip@}\selectfont
           \global \setbox\@ne = \hbox {%
              \hss\symbol{"5\ifnum #3=\z@ F\else E\fi}\hss}%
           \ifdim \wd\@ne < \dimen@
             \fontsize{\tf@size}{\skip@}\selectfont
             \global \setbox\@ne = \hbox {%
               \hss\symbol{"5\ifnum #3=\z@ F\else E\fi}\hss}%
           \fi
         \fi
         $%AM: Normally one sets mathsurround to zero. Why is that not done 
here?
       \fi
       \ifdim \wd\@ne < \dimen@
         \relsize{+1}%
       \fi
       \global \dimen@i = \fontdimen5\the\font
     }%
     \endgroup
     \ifnum #3 = \z@
       \dimen@ii = 1.067\ht\z@
       \global \divide \dimen@i by \tw@
       \global \advance \dimen@i by -\ht\@ne
       \advance \dimen@ii by .6\dimen@i
     \else
       \dimen@ii = -1.05\ht\@ne
       \advance \dimen@ii by -.75pt
       \ifdim \dp\z@ > \z@
         \advance \dimen@ii by -\dp\z@
       \fi
     \fi
     \copy\z@
     \dimen@ = \wd\z@
     \advance \dimen@ by \wd\@ne
     \kern -.5\dimen@
     \raisebox {\dimen@ii}[\z@][\z@]{\copy\@ne}%
     \dimen@ = \wd\z@
     \advance \dimen@ by -\wd\@ne
     \dimen@ = .5\dimen@
     \kern \dimen@
   }%
}


Aditya
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Re: overarc

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

On Mar 5, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

> Currently, there is no such feature. Are you looking at the  
> functionality of the arcs package of latex? If so, it will be easy  
> to add it to ConTeXt. The main trouble is that the glyph for  
> \overarc is missing from the fonts. Arcs.sty takes the glyphs for  
> \frown and \smile, and scales them appropriately. An ugly solution,  
> but it looks ok if you are just placing it over one or two letters.

I had a similar wish a while ago and hacked something with a  
MPpositiongraphic. It is certainly not very elegant, but IMHO better  
than the LaTeX code you posted (scaling a glyph like that will look  
ugly when you want to span more than just two letters). Wolfgang  
Schuster supplied the neat trick with the counter. It is quite fast  
when run with mkiv, but I suspect would be slow with mkii (and leave  
quite a few .mp files behind). Maybe this can help:

\newcount\arcnumber

\startMPpositiongraphic{placeoverarc}
      StartPage ;
      begingroup ;
      initialize_box(\MPpos{\MPvar{self}}) ;
      numeric c ; c = ExHeight/6 ;
      z1 = llxy ;
      z2 = lrxy ;
      z7 = 1/2[z1,z2] ;
      z4 = ((x1 + 2*c), (y1 + 2*c)) ;
      z5 = (x7, (y7 + 4*c)) ;
      z6 = ((x2 - 2*c), (y2 + 2*c)) ;
      path syn ; syn := z4 .. z5 .. z6 ;
      pickup pencircle scaled (0.75*c) ;
      draw syn ;
      anchor_box(\MPanchor{\MPvar{self}}) ;
      endgroup ;
      save c ;
      StopPage ;
\stopMPpositiongraphic%

\define[1]\overarc
{\advance\arcnumber\plusone%
  \setMPpositiongraphic{POS-\number\arcnumber}{placeoverarc}%
  \hpos{POS-\number\arcnumber}{#1}}

Maybe that can be the starting point for some better code...

Thomas

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Re: overarc

[Hans Hagen]

David Arnold wrote:
> All,
> 
> How can I place an overarc over some text, such as in \overarc{AB}?

well, this does not show how it should look -)

Hans

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