This topic has 45 commands from the base, textmacros, and ams packages. Commands show whether MathJax, KaTeX, and XeTeX render them. Entries are ordered by how often they appear in corpus formulas.
- Entries
- 45 commands
- Packages
- base 33 · textmacros 12 · ams 3
- Most used
- \tilde 4.74%
- Full support
- MathJax 45/45 · KaTeX 37/45 · XeTeX 31/45
Entries#
| Name | Definition | Packages | MathJax | KaTeX | XeTeX | Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
\tilde | Used to place a tilde accent over variables, operators, or grouped expressions. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | 4.74% |
\hat | Used to place a hat accent over variables, estimators, transforms, and grouped expressions. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | 4.65% |
\bar | Used to place an overbar over a symbol or grouped expression, for example for conjugates, closures, or averages. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | 3.98% |
\overline | Used to place a bar over a mathematical symbol or expression, e.g. conjugates, closures, or repeated decimals. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | 3.16% |
\widetilde | Used to place a wider tilde accent over grouped math content. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | 2.13% |
\dot | Used to place a single dot accent over a symbol or grouped expression, often for time derivatives. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | 1.93% |
\widehat | Used to place a wider hat accent over grouped math content, such as Fourier transforms or estimated vectors of symbols. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | 1.66% |
\vec | Used to place an arrow accent over a symbol or grouped expression, especially for vectors. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | 1.32% |
\underline | Used to place an underline under a mathematical symbol or expression in formulas. | base, textmacros | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | 0.75% |
\stackrel | Used to place a label or annotation above a relation symbol, such as writing a symbol with text or another symbol over it | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | 0.54% |
\underset | Places one math expression beneath a base expression, commonly for labels or annotations under operators, relations, or arrows. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: None | 0.50% |
\overset | Used to place a symbol or text above another mathematical symbol or relation. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: None | 0.41% |
\underbrace | Used to place a brace under an expression, often with a subscript label indicating grouping or annotation. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | 0.27% |
\ddot | Used to place a double-dot accent over variables, commonly in derivative notation or specialized symbols. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | 0.26% |
\check | Used to place a check or caron accent over a math symbol or grouped expression. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | 0.20% |
\overrightarrow | Used to place a right-pointing arrow over an expression, commonly for vectors, directed segments, or transformations. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | 0.10% |
\mathring | Used to place a ring accent over a math symbol or expression. | ams | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | 0.09% |
\breve | Used to place a breve accent over a math symbol or grouped expression. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | 0.07% |
\acute | Used to place an acute accent over a math symbol or grouped expression. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | 0.03% |
\overleftarrow | Used to place a left-pointing arrow over an expression, for reversed vectors, maps, or directed notation. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | 0.03% |
\overbrace | Used to place a brace over an expression, often with a superscript label indicating grouping or annotation. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | 0.03% |
\buildrel | Used to build relations by stacking an overscript on top of a relation symbol or operator. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: None | XeTeX: Full | 0.02% |
\' | Used in text mode to place an acute accent over the next letter, e.g. for accented words and names. | textmacros | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | 0.01% |
\overleftrightarrow | Used to place a double-headed arrow over an expression, for bijections, equivalences, or two-way directional notation. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: None | 0.01% |
\dddot | Used for a triple-dot accent, typically for higher-order derivatives or specialized notation. | ams, base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Partial | <0.01% |
\grave | Used to place a grave accent over a math symbol or grouped expression. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | <0.01% |
\" | Used in text mode to place an umlaut/diaeresis accent over the next letter. | textmacros | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | <0.01% |
\underrightarrow | Used to place a right-pointing arrow under an expression for directional or annotated notation. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: None | <0.01% |
\underleftarrow | Used to place a left-pointing arrow under an expression for reversed directional notation. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: None | <0.01% |
\^ | Used in text mode to place a circumflex accent over the next letter. | textmacros | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | <0.01% |
\ddddot | Used for a four-dot accent, most often in very specialized higher-order derivative notation. | ams, base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Partial | <0.01% |
\` | Used in text mode to place a grave accent over the next letter. | textmacros | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | <0.01% |
\~ | Used in text mode to place a tilde accent over the next letter, such as in Spanish names or words. | textmacros | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | <0.01% |
\skew | Used for manual horizontal skewing/overlap adjustments between symbols or accents in specialized mathematical typography | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: None | XeTeX: Full | <0.01% |
\v | Used in text mode to place a caron accent over the following letter, especially for Czech, Slovak, or other Slavic names and words. | textmacros | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | <0.01% |
\. | Used in text mode to place a dot accent over the next letter. | textmacros | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | <0.01% |
\u | Used in text mode to place a breve accent over the following letter, typically for transliterated names or languages that use breve-marked Latin characters. | textmacros | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | <0.01% |
\underleftrightarrow | Used to place a double-headed arrow under an expression for two-way directional or annotated notation. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: None | <0.01% |
\= | Used in text mode to place a macron over the next letter. | textmacros | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: Full | XeTeX: Full | <0.01% |
\overunderset | Places simultaneous over- and under-annotations on a base expression, e.g. labeling a symbol with text or arrows above and below it. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: None | XeTeX: None | <0.01% |
\‘ | Unicode alias for the grave-accent text command, used to accent the next letter in text mode. | textmacros | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: None | XeTeX: None | — |
\’ | Unicode alias for the acute-accent text command, used to accent the next letter in text mode. | textmacros | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: None | XeTeX: None | — |
\overparen | Used to draw a curved mark over an expression, typically for grouping or geometric notation. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: None | XeTeX: None | — |
\stackbin | Used for the less common case of placing a label above a binary operator while preserving binary-operator class | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: None | XeTeX: None | — |
\underparen | Used to draw a curved mark under an expression, typically for grouping or geometric notation. | base | MathJax: Full | KaTeX: None | XeTeX: None | — |