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From: gezelter@garnet.berkeley.edu (Dan Gezelter)
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Subject: Re: I want an h-bar!!!
Keywords: Word formula command
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Enough people requested the same information that I thought I'd post some of 
the better solutions.  
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The Belmont font used by MathType does have an h-bar.

Mihran Tuceryan
email: tuceryan@cps.msu.edu

This is true, but if you try to print on a networked laserwriter that has not
had the Belmont font installed, all of the equations come out as MATHTYPE 
CANNOT FIND THE BELMONT FONT.  Also, as Jose Suarez(suarez@as.arizona.edu)
pointed out, glueing h-bars from mathtype into the body of your text (single
spaced) runs into a baseline overhang problem that makes the line spacing 
look atrocious.
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In Word, use 	cmd-opt-\Xcmd-opt-\TO(REPLACE)    which puts only the top
of the bounding box over the character...

Erik O'Shaughnessy
eoshough@nmsu.edu

Note: I tried this, but alas, it resembles an h-bar only slightly.
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In Word, use   \O(\S\ai-3\up3(-),h)  or  \O(\S\ai-3\up3(/),h)  which 
overstrikes the character with either - or /  (This is what I use now.).

Tom Scavo, et.al.
scavo@cie.uoregon.edu

Like I said, this doesn't look much like the h-bars that can be found in the
chemistry/physics literature, but perhaps this is the best/easiest way to go
for now.
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A number of other people suggested using ResEdit to create the character in
an unused key combination.  That will work if I intend to print only to 
ImageWriters, etc., but I need to laser print eventually.  Perhaps the question
I need to ask now is:  How can I get our lab's networked laserwriter to "know
about" the Belmont font?  

          --Dan

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My cat purrs only when I look at it              gezelter@garnet.berkeley.edu
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