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From: kinnersley@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bill Kinnersley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: I want an h-bar!!!
Message-ID: <27382.2763c652@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 10 Dec 90 23:30:57 GMT
References: <1990Dec10.035502.11885@agate.berkeley.edu>
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.apps
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <1990Dec10.035502.11885@agate.berkeley.edu>, 
   gezelter@garnet.berkeley.edu (Dan Gezelter) writes:
> Hi there!
>    A lot of the things I write need to have an h-bar symbol: 
> 
>      h-bar = Planck's constant/(2 Pi) for non-quantum people. 
>   
>   Symbol font doesn't seem to have that particular symbol, nor do any other 
> fonts that I have seen.  I have created one in my MS Word glossary, but it 
> looks absolutely nothing like an h-bar, and I'd really like to start working 
> on my thesis.  Does anyone know of any font that does h-bar's, and if so,
> where can I get a copy of it?
> 
Yes, this used to drive me crazy too.  I tried every combination under the
sun, until I realized at last what was wrong with every one of them.  I
was overdoing the bar.  In fact it doesn't even have to be a bar.  In the 
proper context, people will accept an h with any old thingy on it as an 
h-bar, just as long as the thingy is SMALL.  If you look carefully, 
textbooks differ a lot on the symbol they use for h-bar.  In some of them
the bar is slanted, but in others it is perfectly horizontal.

What works for me is an overstrike of h with an acute accent.  And then put
the whole thing in Times Italic.  (Don't expect it to look right on the 
screen, of course.)

-- 
--Bill Kinnersley