Re: [Gnuplot-info] Tilde and hat directly above a letter

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Carpenter Amos wrote:
> I would be very grateful if someone could show me how to put a hat (^)
> directly above w and a tilde (~) directly above D. 

In which terminal driver?

 > In Latex one would
> write $\hat{w}$ and $\tilde{D}$.

You can do exactly that in gnuplot, if you choose one of the terminal 
drivers that output text via (La)TeX, most notably pslatex.

>    set label "\\{\303{w}_{k,16}\\}@^{16}_{k=1} at 0.694, 0.846 left

That cannot work --- the closing " is missing.