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From: ddaniel@lindy.stanford.edu (D. Daniel Sternbergh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Scientific Symbol Fonts
Message-ID: <1990Sep12.190951.3306@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 12 Sep 90 19:09:51 GMT
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In article <90254.174022KPURCELL@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK> KPURCELL@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK writes:
>We also need to be able to print crystallographic indices (Miller Indices).
>These appear as one bar one zero or one one bar two zero. Looks like:
>          _          _
>       (1 1 0)  (1 1 2 0)

Have you tried Symbol font?  Option-` followed by a second character
gives tilde in fonts like Times, but overbar in Symbol.

I constructed an elaborate macro for my advisor to use for Miller
indices in Word before discovering that one.

  == Daniel ==                     Daniel Sternbergh
                                   ddaniel@lindy.stanford.edu
                                   Materials Science & Engineering