Overscore

[Kent Crawford]

Is there anyone out there who has tried to make
overscores? I have used the Advance field command and
have done it successfully in Word 97. When I open the
same file in Word 2000, it displays and prints wierd.
Word 2002 corrects some of the problems but still is not
correct. I have also tried to use the Equations field (EQ
\o (R CLK,_____). This produces underscoring and so I
must use the advance fields also and this is where the
trouble starts.

The problem seems to occur when I combine two advance
field commands together (Advance up 12, and advance left
30 points).

I must be able to overscore in a multiple line paragraph
without adding to vertical spacing. Can any one help?

Thanks,
Kent Crawford

 

[Peter Jamieson]

Have you tried using an EQ field with overscore characters (bearing in mind
that these may not be available in Word 97 and that that might mean you need
a different approach for each version of Word) ?

The Unicode characters 02C9 and 203E are available and seem reasonably OK
(the latter is narrower and slightly higher than the former).