This tiny package provides two commands for placing an arc over/under a short piece of text. The code comes from my package `metre'. I have repackaged it to make it more easily available and to allow the commands to be used within math formulas. To install the package: latex arcs.ins latex arcs.dtx The file arcstest.tex contains some examples of usage. -- Gianfranco Boggio-Togna gbt@acm.org