Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!dm2w+ From: dm2w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Douglas Bradley Meade) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: The Overbar in the Symbol font Message-ID: Date: 24 May 88 14:58:22 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 38 In-Reply-To: <2993@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> In response to message <2993@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> : > I just discovered the following: When using the Symbol font, if > you type an Option- (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) I have been playing with this a little and here are my findings: 1. This will work on a LaserWriter, but not on a AppleTalk ImageWriter II. 2. You can overbar a character in a font other than Symbol as follows: * change to Symbol font * type Option- followed by the character to be "overbarred" * change the character to be "overbarred" to the desired font Exercise: Overbars for vowels and letters with diacritical marks do require a little extra effort. 3. In WriteNow the overbar can be raised/lowered in one point increments by using the superscript/subscript styles. 4. The overbar may NOT be the same width as the base character in proportional fonts. Problem: How can you overbar a sequence of letters with a continuous overbar? Please inform me of your solutions to the problem, and other interesting findings. Doug Meade dm2w+@cmu.andrew.edu