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From: scavo@cie.uoregon.edu (Tom Scavo)
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Subject: Re: I want an h-bar!!!
Summary: You want it, you got it!
Keywords: Word formula command
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Date: 10 Dec 90 17:42:01 GMT
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In article <1990Dec10.035502.11885@agate.berkeley.edu> gezelter@garnet.berkeley.edu (Dan Gezelter) writes:
>   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?

Word has a formula command that lets you build characters from
existing characters by laying one on top of the other.  For example,
to Overwrite one character by another, type

	\O(-,h)

where the backslash is really a command-option-\ control sequence
which appears on the screen as .\ .  But this is only the beginnings
of what you're calling h-bar.  I say that because you're going to
have to play with the vertical (and maybe horizontal) spacing until
it looks just right.  For example, you could try

	\O(\S\ai-3\up3(-),h)

which moves the hyphen 3 points upward without disrupting interline
spacing, or you could use the Times overbar character obtained by
typing shift-option-<.  (Remember, there are at least three "hyphens"
in every font:  the regular hyphen, en-dash, and em-dash.)

Tom Scavo
scavo@cie.uoregon.edu