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In article <2598@goanna.oz.au> isaac@goanna.oz.au (Isaac Balbin) writes:
>Someone waltzed into my office the other day and asked, 
>"How do I get a caret symbol as part of a \section title?..."
>... How do _you_ handle
>this problem?

Around here, we've found the sequence 
   $\^{ }$
to be generally satisfactory for the caret.  A slightly different
effect can be got using the mathaccent, eg
   \hat{ }
I don't recall ever having tried this latter in a section header, but
it should work in one.

We use the same general strategy for printing the tilde, ~, and for
the backslash we define a macro \bs:
   \newcommand{\bs}{$\backslash$}
which seems robust.

John Burke
Engineering Specialist