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From: ijlustig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Irvin Lustig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: The Overbar in the Symbol font
Message-ID: <2993@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 23 May 88 14:47:32 GMT
Reply-To: ijlustig@phoenix ()
Organization: Princeton Univ. Computing and Information Technology
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I just discovered the following:  When using the Symbol font, if
you type an Option-<left quote> (i.e., the key next to the '1'
on the Mac Plus keyboard), you get an overbar followed by the next
character typed (for most of the characters).  On the screen,
this looks like two characters, but when printed (from either
MacWrite 4.6 or WriteNow 1.07), you get a bar over the character.
Is this a problem with the representation of the Symbol font in
the System file?  Can this feature of the Symbol font be extended to
other fonts?  (i.e., it would be nice to be able to overbar an x or a y)

	-Irv Lustig
	Assistant Professor
	Dept. of Civil Engineering and Operations Research
	Princeton University
	irv%basie@princeton.edu