Hi Hans,

Thanks for the response. This is sort of what I wanted, except the \widehat is, well, quite wide. So I hacked it around a bit to put the \widehat from a capital 'I' on top of a capital 'H'. In case it happens to be helpful, the final macro was

\def\hhat{H\kern-0.61em\widehat{\phantom{I}}\kern0.178em}

If I really cared, I wouldn't hard-code those numbers, but since they are in em I'm not really too worried.

-- 
Michael Murphy
murphy.md@gmail.com

On Wednesday, 31 July 2013 at 08:48, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 7/31/2013 12:04 AM, Michael Murphy wrote:
Hello all,

I'm trying to typeset 'H' with a circumflex (or hat) in math mode, but
the result is rather ugly when not using latin-modern. I've tried to
redefine the \hat macro to move the accent up a bit using \topaccent: is
this the best approach? Having to nest '$' does not seem right at all.
(Also, for some reason although I find \mathhat in enco-ini.mkiv, when I
try to use it I get undefined control sequence.)

Thanks,
Michael

\starttypescript [mathfont]
\definetypeface [mathfont] [mm] [math] [palatino] [default]
[rscale=1.0]
\stoptypescript
\usetypescript[mathfont]
\setupbodyfont[mathfont]

\starttext

$\hat{H}$

\def\hat#1{\topaccent{3pt}{0}{90}{\textcircumflex}{$#1$}}

$\hat{H}$

\stoptext

$\widehat{H}$

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