How does one make a double widehat?

Question

To depict the Fourier transform of the Fourier transform of a function f, I want to make two widehats over each other as in widehat{widehat{f}}, however, this makes the widehats not immediately over each other. How would one make the widehats immediately above each other?

David Carlisle · Accepted Answer

Do you need the wide version? AMS provides  Hat accent that shifts when doubled, but the package doesn't provide a wide version that does this.

documentclass{article}
usepackage{amsmath}
begin{document}

[
Hat{Hat{f}}
]
end{document}

Actually amsmath contains code to make stacked widehat work but it is commented out for some reason. If you copy the code and uncomment widehat  you get:

documentclass{article}
usepackage{amsmath}

makeatletter
def@tempa#1{@xp@tempbmeaning#1@nil#1}
def@tempb#1>#2#3 #4@nil#5{%
  @xpifxcsname#3endcsnamemathaccent
    @tempc#4?"7777@nil#5%
  else
    PackageWarningNoLine{amsmath}{%
      Unable to redefine math accent string#5}%
  fi
}
def@tempc#1"#2#3#4#5#6@nil#7{%
  chardef@tempd="#3relaxset@mathaccent@tempd{#7}{#2}{#4#5}}

@tempawidehat
makeatother
begin{document}
[
widehat{widehat{f}}
widehat{widehat{abcd}}
]
end{document}

The amsmath documentation actually mentions why widehat is omitted, but I think if you don't needed the wider wide hats provided by the amsfonts definition, using the amsmath stacking version is OK.

For widehat and
widetilde, we need to avoid clobbering the definitions done by the
pkg{amsfonts} package. Arbitrating the contention between
pkg{amsmath} and pkg{amsfonts} to allow doubling a widetilde
accent looks tricky, so for the time being [mjd,1999/07/19] we just
leave cn{widehat} and cn{widetilde} alone.

Mico · Answer

The MathTime Professional 2 package (mtpro2 for short) provides methods for producing really really wide-hat symbols (as well as wide-tilde and wide-check symbols) and stacking these symbols, i.e., producing doubled widehat symbols.

documentclass{article}
usepackage{mtpro2}
begin{document}
$widehatdown{1.5pt}{widehat{aceuvw}}$

bigskip
$widehatdown{2.5pt}{widehat{A+B+C+D+E+F+G }}$
end{document}

I must confess I hope you have no need for the lower of the two examples... Note also that the mtpro2 package produces Times Roman-type math fonts, which may or may not be a look you like.

Fornost · Answer

$widehat{widehat{f,}}!!$ seems to work somehow.
(Based on comments by David Carlisle and ADF.)

How does one make a double widehat?

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