bointon@kcl-cs.UUCP (Marcus "Bru" Bointon) (04/05/91)
Following is a summary of "how to do overscores in word 4"
Thanks to all who replied
Marcus Bointon, King's College London.
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From: Kevin Hammond <kh@uk.ac.glasgow.cs>
Organization: Computing Sci, Glasgow Univ, Scotland
The way I do this (which gives acceptable, but not perfect) results is
to use a nested formula such as the following (\ is the formula character):
\O\AC(\S\UP9(\D\LI\FO4()),e)
Adjust the height, and line length to taste!
Kevin
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From: George Jefferson <jeffe@edu.upenn.seas.eniac>
References: <19856@brahms.udel.edu> <1991Mar26.031908.15287@NCoast.ORG>
try playing with the overstrike function
.\o( x,- )
^^
^ i guess you know what this is :')
other useful stuff like .\s.\ban() ==> shift back n points is
in the the on-line help, and you can nest these functions as you
like ( but somehow never get just exactly what you want...)
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From: Sunil Bhatla <bhatlas@edu.cwru.som.pyrite>
Organization: WSOM CSG, CWRU, Cleve. OH
Type the following:
option-command-backslash X option-command-backslash TO (C)
where C is the character you want to overscore.
You can find more info on this in the on-line help system under "formulas"
or on p.98 of the manual.
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From: Tom Scavo <scavo@edu.uoregon.cie>
Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange
There are a number of ways to do this, and which you use depends
on how exactly you want the output to look. The easiest way is
to use the Word formula command
\O( <arg1> , <arg2> )
where the \ is obtained by typing command-option-\ and the two
arguments are the textual fragments that you want overwritten.
The letter "O" (which need not be capitalized) stands for "Over-
write". So, for example, if you want to do something like x-bar
just let an italicized x take the place of <arg1> , and type an
overbar in Times for <arg2> . Yes, the Times font actually has
an overbar character (use KeyCaps to find it). The Overwrite
formula command also has options to center, left-align, and right-
align the bounding boxes of its arguments---see the Word manual
for the appropriate syntax. The arguments will be centered by
default.
Another approach is to use the boX formula command. Try
\X\to( <arg1> )
which gives a wider overbar than the previous method.
See if either of these satisfy your needs. Oh, by the way,
spaces inside the parentheses are signifant. I included them
above for readability.
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Message-Id: <9103301940.AA19569@sunc5.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Use the various commands in the formula glossary. There is an 'above'
command, I believe. Its not elegant, but you can use the formula glossary to
produce nearly _any_ mathematical symbol.
From: "Dilip V. Sarwate" <sarwate@edu.uiuc.csl.uicsl>
The Subscript command in the mathematical typesetting seems to work reasonably
well. Try .\S(_,A) where .\ is of course the symbol obtained by typing
Command-Option-\ with Show Paragraphs set. For 12 point Palatino font, I format
the A to be a superscript raised 10 points above the baseline. Of course, the
line spacing needs to be controlled by setting the spacing in the Paragraph
command to -15 points (say).
Alternatively, you could consider using the Princeton font which not only has
overbars built in, but also has symbols for "for all", "there exists", subset
superset, union, intersection, empty set, "implies", "is implied by" (can be
concatenated for the equivalence "iff" symbol) etc.
From: "Pam Williams, 201 Marcus Hall"PWILLIAMS <PWILLIAMS@umaecs>
I don't know if you have a good alternative yet, but what I do is use
the mathematical typesetting options. to get a bar over an x, do the
following
[option][command] (hold both down, then type) \o("superscript 8pt" -,x)
There are several options in help "mathematical typesetting"
-Pam