Nicholas Bodley wrote:

> One thing I miss in electronic text composition is a non-deleting
> "overstrike". There's no fundamental technical reason for it not to be
> available; a bitwise logical inclusive OR into a character bitmap, the
> equivalent of a nondeleting overstrike, is fundamentally extremely simple
> to do. Whether the higher-level "tools" used by programmers, or even the
> graphics hardware, permit it to be done, is another matter.

MSWord can do overstrikes. Back in 5.1, it was in an Appendix in the
Manual (remember Manuals?). In 97/98 and 2000/2001, and presumably in
later versions, it's buried in the formulas department and there's no
documentation whatsoever.

I once typed out the instructions for creating an overstrike, possibly
here, probably in sci.lang, and they could be extracted from an archive.

Somewhere between 5.1 and 97, they seem to have given up the possibility
of nesting formulas, so I can't really do an underdot -- "Subscript"
style reduces the size as well as moving it down, and increasing the
size makes it not align in the middle.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...