Hat on any letter, Special character

[Michael belledin]

Hi All!
Does anybody know, if it is possible to put a hat on an
arbitrary letter such as p^.
Regards and thanks Michael

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi, Michael,

You can use the EQ field with the \o switch (o for "overstrike"). For the
example you gave, the field code would be

{ EQ \o(p,^) }

Since the ^ character (formal name: circumflex) is a little too low, you
should select it in the field code, go to Format > Font > Character Spacing,
and set the position to "raised" by 2 or 3 points.

The space after the closing parenthesis displays in the field result. If you
will want another character to follow immediately after the p, delete the
last space from the field code.

Once you've created a field the way you want it, assign it to an AutoText or
AutoCorrect entry.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In many Unicode fonts there are "Combining Diacritical Marks" that don't
require use of an EQ field; unfortunately the core fonts don't include a
combining circumflex (0302 in Arial Unicode MS). But there is a separate
circumflex at 02C6 (0136 ASCII) that may work better for you in an
overstrike field (though it may still need to be raised a bit (it's lower
than the combining version).

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[Kent Crawford]

-----Original Message-----
Hi All!
Does anybody know, if it is possible to put a hat on an
arbitrary letter such as p^.
Regards and thanks Michael
.
Michael,

The only way I have been able to do this is to use the
advance fields.

To put a hat on the H do the following:

Type the H.
Insert Field Advance \U6.
Insert Field Advance \L6.
Type the ^ (Upper case 6).
Insert Field Advance \D6.
Type the text to follow. You may have to put some extra
spaces after the advance down field or another advance
right field.

To see the fields, Alt F9. To switch back, Alt F9.

If you can find a symbol from another font that is a caret
(^) already above the line, you may be able to avoid the
advance up field.

Hope this helps.
Kent