theta hat symbol

[Tel Monks]

I have something close. I used the Doulos SIL font and the Insert 
command from Word to generate the following. You can open this document 
and copy/paste into your text. Let me know what you think.

Tel


Yehuda N. Falk wrote:
>> I've looked through all the font lists I have and can't find a 'theta 
>> hat' symbol.  Does anyone have one I could cut-and-paste?
>
> Here are two thoughts:
>
> 1) Assuming your wordprocessor comes bundled with an "equation editor" 
> (such as Design Science's MathType, a version of which is usually 
> bundled with WordPerfect and Word, or OpenOffice's built-in equation 
> editor), you can create the theta-hat in the equation editor.
>
> 2) If you have a font with a high circumflex that you can superimpose 
> on the theta, that will work even better. The old (pre-Unicode) SIL 
> fonts (like SILDoulous IPA93)have such a character. (This doesn't work 
> with the more modern Unicode fonts because they are supposed to use 
> smart-font features like OpenType to get the vertical positioning 
> right.) Personally, I use WordPerfect and a font editor; I have used 
> the font editor to redefine one of WordPerfect's built-in characters 
> as a high circumflex, and then used the overstrike feature to 
> superimpose that on a theta.
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
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