[Tex/LaTex] Symbol: Put a smile symbol under a plus

Question

I would like to have a \smile symbol under a plus symbol. What I have so far is

\newcommand{\pluss}{\raisebox{-.5ex}{\,$\overset{\textstyle{\raisebox{-0.5ex}{$+$}}}{\smile}$}\,}

However, I would like to have the plus further below. I tried to do this via the \raisebox command (as you can see). This works to some extend, but when I go further than -0.5ex, the whole thing will go down instead of just the plus symbol.

Can anyone help, please?

Answer 1

With some low level TeX programming:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}

\makeatletter
\DeclareRobustCommand{\pluss}{\mathbin{\text{\pluss@}}}
\newcommand{\pluss@}{%
  \vtop{%
    \offinterlineskip\m@th
    \halign{\hfil##\hfil\cr$+$\cr$\smile$\cr}%
  }%
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

$3\pluss 4+5$

$\scriptstyle 3\pluss 4+5$

\end{document}

With a smaller \smile:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}

\makeatletter
\DeclareRobustCommand{\pluss}{\mathbin{\text{\pluss@}}}
\newcommand{\pluss@}{%
  \vtop{%
    \offinterlineskip\m@th
    \halign{\hfil##\hfil\cr$+$\cr$\scriptstyle\smile$\cr}%
  }%
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

$3\pluss 4+5$

$\scriptstyle 3\pluss 4+5$

\end{document}