\dddot ?

[Jan C Becker]

I need a Latex math function which gives me a triple dot,
just like \ddot results in a double dot.
I have tried \dddot{x}
\tdot{x}
\dot{\dot{x}}
but it does not work.

Does anybody know how to do this ?

Thanks, Jan

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[Alain Kessi]

jbe...@acsu.buffalo.edu (Jan C Becker) wrote:
>I need a Latex math function which gives me a triple dot,
>just like \ddot results in a double dot.
>I have tried \dddot{x}

It does work, but you have to load the amsmath package first, from
the amslatex bundle:

\usepackage{amsmath}

There is even a \ddddot.

--
Alain Kessi (alain...@psi.ch)
at Paul Scherrer Institut, Zuerich, Switzerland

[Tom Scavo]

In article <4l3s89$m...@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu>,

Jan C Becker <jbe...@acsu.buffalo.edu> wrote:
>
>I need a Latex math function which gives me a triple dot,
>just like \ddot results in a double dot.
>I have tried \dddot{x}

> \tdot{x}
> \dot{\dot{x}}
>but it does not work.
>
>Does anybody know how to do this ?

Try

\usepackage{amsmath}
...
... $\dddot{x}$ ...

There's also a \ddddot command in amsmath.

Cheers,
--
Tom Scavo
mailto:trs...@syr.edu
http://web.syr.edu/~trscavo/

[kna...@iphcip1.physik.uni-mainz.de]

In article <4l3s89$m...@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu>, jbe...@acsu.buffalo.edu (Jan C Becker) writes:
:
:I need a Latex math function which gives me a triple dot,

:just like \ddot results in a double dot.
:I have tried \dddot{x}
: \tdot{x}
: \dot{\dot{x}}
:but it does not work.
:
:Does anybody know how to do this ?

\usepackage{amsmath}

should enable \dddot. If you don't need the full features of amsmath (or
dislike some of them), you can copy-and-paste the definition of \dddot from
there.

--J"org Knappen.
:
:Thanks, Jan