Re: Special characters
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- Subject: [mg15540] Re: Special characters
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:44:28 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: University of Western Australia
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Harry flynn wrote:
> Can anyone tell me if if is possible to input x "double dot" and theta
> "doubledot" (i.e. with the two dots over the letter) in Mathematica.
You need to use an OverscriptBox (see 2.8.10 of the Mathematica book).
If you paste the following cell into a new Notebook you can click on
the links it contains to get to the relevant documentation:
Cell[TextData[{
"See Section ",
ButtonBox["2.8.10",
ButtonData:>{"2.8.10", "10.9"},
ButtonStyle->"MainBookLink"],
" of the The ",
StyleBox["Mathematica",
FontSlant->"Italic"],
" Book or ",
ButtonBox["OverscriptBox",
ButtonStyle->"RefGuideLink"],
" in the Reference Guide."
}], "Text"]
> This seems sraightforward when the letter is a, o or u but I cannot find
> a way for the letters previously mentioned.
The reason for this is that these letters are included in ISO Latin-1.
Cheers,
Paul
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