I want to type a caret in my document that looks like a typed caret—not a hat, not a wedge, not a hat over an invisible space character. I'm aware of the answer at How to typset the symbol “^” (caret/circumflex/hat) and none of them look like a^b. How can I get that in Latex? How can I get a^b?
[Tex/LaTex] Caret that looks like a typed caret
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As Will Robertson says, the rendering of the caret depends on the font. Here I give three examples:
- Computer Modern Typewriter in OT1 encoding
- Computer Modern Typewriter in T1 encoding
- Inconsolata
In all three the first caret is obtained with \textasciicircum and the second one with \^{}. In the first row the two carets are the same, in the second row the first caret is sligthly bigger and a bit lower; this is the symbol used by \verb if the default encoding is T1.
The appearance of the care symbol depends on the used font. For example, Courier or TeX Gyre Cursor has a symbol that is something between the caret of the Computer Modern fonts and the \wedge solution.
The following example uses \lstinline instead of \verb, because a symbol can more easily be replaced via option literate:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{listings}
\newcommand*{\caret}{%
\begingroup
\fontencoding{T1}%
\fontfamily{qcr}% TeX Gyre Cursor
%\fontfamily{pcr}% Courier
\selectfont
\string^%
\endgroup
}
\lstdefinestyle{caret}{
basicstyle=\ttfamily,
literate={^}{\caret}{1},
}
\newcommand*{\lstverb}{\lstinline[style=caret]}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{ll}
\verb|\verb|: &
\verb|x^3+x^2-1| \\
\verb|\wedge|: &
\texttt{x$^\wedge$3+x$^\wedge$2-1} \\
\verb|\lstinline| + \verb|\caret|: &
\lstverb|x^3+x^2-1| \\
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
Best Answer
Maybe this?
The
{1.5}governs the horizontal stretch of the nominal^character, the[2]the vertical stretch. The{-1ex}governs the vertical placement of the result, and the overall object takes up the space given by{\ \,}. One can revise at will.