----- Original Message ----
> From: Richard Heck <[email protected]>
> To: lyx-users <[email protected]>
> Sent: Mon, 22 November, 2010 19:10:28
> Subject: OT: LaTeX Help
>
>
> What I want to do is typeset the following sort of thing: I want a gamma on
>top of a tilde on top of a delta, all the same (normal) size, and then to the
>right of that will be something like: f(x,y), and I want the tilde to sit
>about
>here the crosspiece is on the f, so the whole thing is kind of "centered"
>vertically on the line.
>
Best I can think of is a zero width mbox containing a 1x2 matrix with the gamma
and delta overlaid with a zero width mbox containing the sim. The spacing is
very tight, but could be loosened by inserting a \hphantom and a big symbol of
your choice in each of the matrix cells.
basic version:
\makebox[0pt][c]{\begin{array}{c} \gamma\\
\delta\end{array}} \makebox[0pt][c]{\sim}
Here's a version with a \sum vphantom (displayed, in case used inline) in each
cell, and some horizontal space too. Quite a beast!
\enskip\makebox[0pt][c]{\begin{array}{c}
\vphantom{{\displaystyle \sum}}\gamma\\
\vphantom{{\displaystyle \sum}}\delta\end{array}}\makebox[0pt][c]{\sim}\enskip
Jim
