mscroggs / realhats

realhats LaTeX package

realhats LaTeX package

realhats is a package for LaTeX that makes \hat put real hats on symbols. A reasonably up-to-date version of realhats is available from the CTAN archive.

Regretfully brought into the world by Matthew Scroggs and Adam Townsend.

Thanks to

• Smitha Maretvadakethope
• Pedro Horse

Example

Changelog

Version 7.1 (2023-04-05)

• Reflected dark blue tile hat

Version 7.0 (2023-04-04)

• Added aperiodic tile hat

Version 6.0 (2022-06-13)

• Added Scottish hat
• Added police hat
• Added birthday hat
• Added mortarboard

Version 5.0 (2019-11-19)

• Added Ash's hat

Version 4.0 (2019-11-02)

• Vectorised the hats
• Added dunce cap

Version 3.0 (2019-04-14)

• Added optional parameters for \hat and \usepackage to control which hats are used.
• Added crown

Version 2.0 (2019-02-25)

• Replaced tikz with stackengine
• Added top hat, fez, cowboy hat

Version 1.0 (2019-02-05)

• First working version of package
• Added five hats
• Added documentation

Licensing

This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the MIT license.

realhats's Issues

Wally's hat

Though we had this but can't seem to find it...

\widehat

\widehat should add a particularly wide hat

Rasta hat? 🇯🇲

https://www.123rf.com/photo_115477035_jamaican-rasta-hat-with-dreadlocks-reggae-style-avatar-isolated-on-white-background-vector.html

Reduce resolution of hats or vectorise

Fedora

https://twitter.com/PawSob/status/1123158373560717313

specify

\hat[crown]{x} does not let me specify to use a crown. It prints out [crown]. Does the same for specifying any kind of hat.

Crown

Need to add this beauty of a crown: https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=255415&picture=3-point-crown

File 'hats/realhats-birthday' not found

Greetings, I've just updated to version 6.0 and used the package for the first time.
I tried running the \hat{} command within a mathmode block to test it out, and my editor (Texmaker, Windows) gives me the following error:
File 'hats/realhats-birthday' not found.
I use MiKTeX as my package distributor, and after some quick digging I've noticed that only a single file is installed, realhats.sty. So I tried putting the hats folder from this git repo in the same folder in case the problem could be fixed, but it hasn't.
Is there something I am missing? I checked out the docs, but nothing's mentioned.

Thanks in advance.

Installed realhats, but running hats.tex ends with error

I've just installed realhats package via Miktex and run the file https://github.com/mscroggs/realhats/blob/master/readme_images/hats.tex.
I cannot understand why it throws the error:

! LaTeX Error: File `hats/realhats-beret' not found.

What could be missing?
Thanks!

More hats

We should add:

• - Top hat
• Make LaTeX great again hat
• Fez
• Cowboy hat

Input without curly brackets

Hey! I'm currently writing another joke package, having big inspiration of your awesome work.

While reading into it, I learned that using input{docstrip} is strongly seen as bad practise since this would limit it to LaTeX only instead of other *tex, which may use your file as well.

Source: http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/docstrip.pdf Page 5 (\input)

Just fyi, I really like your project and will genuinely use it for my fourier analysis lecture next semester 👍

Cheers

Adding a birthday party hat

I'm coming from the twitter thread here and I'm the birthday thesis defense guy. The author of the package has personally suggested I open an issue regarding this topic. I defend on July 11th, so this isn't something that must happen overnight. I'm suggesting a birthday party hat, but I don't have a specific preference on its appearance, so long it is recognizable. Perhaps red with a few colorful spots?

Thanks for the opportunity.

Scarf????

It was quite cold this morning

Scottish hat

We used to have a scottish hat (https://github.com/mscroggs/realhats/blob/fe25047d05384df4c796ab1b79c5d983a1756aa1/hats/realhats-scottish.png). It needs vectorising and readding.

Tin foil hat?

Kalpak?

A kyrgyz kalpak would be an excellent addition!

Add a crown

New hat idea

how to remove distance between letters and remove italic format?

First of all, thanks for the great package gentleman!

Now the issue: I tried it in one word:

\hat[crown]{B}OX

The results looks like this:

• is it possible to remove italic format?
• is it possible to remove the distance between the letters?

using it with:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}

Packages:

• geometry
• pdfpages
• babel
• pgffor, ifthen
• hyperref
• cuisine

Incompatibility with unicode-math

Using realhats in conjunction with unicode-math in XeLaTeX results in a plain hat being output. Minimal document to reproduce:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\usepackage{realhats}
 
\begin{document}
$\hat{a}$
\end{document}

Police hat

We should have a police hat for unit vectors in charge of law and order.

Allow user to pick which hat to use

eg \usepackage[tophat]{realhats} should make all hats top hats

Make the package better

The tikz stuff is hacky and bad.
The multiple checks for each letter as a \vec, \mathbf and normal letter are awful.

How does one use the normal hat symbol (^) along side realhats?

How does one use the normal hat symbol (^) alongside realhats?
Thanks

Pixel hats

Add pixel hats (eg https://www.google.com/search?q=pixelart+hats&client=ubuntu&hs=VvH&channel=fs&sxsrf=ACYBGNRQrx_6pqARtHkc4-hWPqOy4YTQHg:1572624082890&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMp82escnlAhURQ8AKHXqaAI4Q_AUIESgB&biw=2075&bih=1097#imgrc=YY6soNYCvHWmWM:)

Maybe \usepackage[pixel]{realhats}

Add mortarboard