tilde over two letters

[SteveK]

I am trying to write voltage ac as Vac with one tilde extending over the a
and c. Is there a way to do this in Word so that it stays connected to Vac
and moves with Vac when the document is edited?

SteveK

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You may need to create this in Equation Editor.

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[Bob Mathews]

I am trying to write voltage ac as Vac with one tilde extending
over
the a and c. Is there a way to do this in Word so that it
stays
connected to Vac and moves with Vac when the document is
edited?

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[SteveK]

I am trying to write voltage ac as Vac with one tilde extending over the a
and c. Is there a way to do this in Word so that it stays connected to Vac
and moves with Vac when the document is edited?

SteveK

Can I just insert an object that I draw, placing it over the "ac" and place
it in a way that it will move with the "ac" text?

Steve

 

[Klaus Linke]

Can I just insert an object that I draw, placing it over the "ac" and place
it in a way that it will move with the "ac" text?

You could try an eq field as described in Suzanne's article:
{ eq \o \ac (ac;~) }
You'd need do fiddle with the position (and maybe font size and/or scaling) of the ~ in "Format > Font" (second tab) to make it look nice.

There's also a Unicode character, U+0360 = combining double tilde.
You can insert it between a and c by typing a, Alt+864, c.
But you're limited to large Unicode fonts, and the positioning of such combining diacritics often is far from perfect.

Regards,
Klaus

 

[Klaus Linke]

Forgot to change the field separator to an "English" comma:
V{ eq \o \ac (ac,~) }
and the link to Suzanne's article http://home.earthlink.net/~wordfaqs/Overbar.htm

Klaus

 

[macropod]

Hi Steve,

You can get an 'a' with a tilde over it (i.e. ã) by holding down the Alt key
whilst typing 0227 on the numeric keypad.
HTH

Cheers

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

But he wants the tilde over "ac," not just "a."

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[Amedee Van Gasse]

Suzanne S. Barnhill shared this with us in
microsoft.public.word.newusers:

But he wants the tilde over "ac," not just "a."

Perhaps this is an existing character, in which case Unicode could be
used. Lets look it up, shall we?

(googles)

And indeed, there is an official character for alternating current:
Unicode character 223F (sine wave = alternating current).
Unfortunately I have not yet found a Windows font that correctly
represents this. The closest would be the the tilde (Unicode 007E)

If you're lucky, you can read this: U-223F can be entered with Alt+8767
(223F hex = 8767 dec). If you're unlucky, you see a small square.
∿

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This character is present in Arial Unicode MS, but I don't see how that
helps with the original problem.

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[Stan Brown]

If you're lucky, you can read this: U-223F can be entered with Alt+8767
(223F hex = 8767 dec). If you're unlucky, you see a small square.
?

I must be middling lucky -- I see a question mark.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

"I feel a wave of morning sickness coming on, and I want to

be standing on your mother's grave when it hits."

Sounds like someone is a "Desperate Housewives" fan?

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[macropod]

Hi Suzanne,

Yes, I knew that, but I thought the OP might be able to make do with ã.

It's also possible to use ADVANCE fields to generate the ~ over the ac, as
in:
Vac{ADVANCE \l10 \u5}~{ADVANCE \r3 \d5}

Cheers

 

[Amedee Van Gasse]

Suzanne S. Barnhill shared this with us in
microsoft.public.word.newusers:

Sounds like someone is a "Desperate Housewives" fan?

Sounds like someone actually watches this show?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

At last report, 25.68 million viewers watch it. I am one of them.

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[Jim]

This character is present in Arial Unicode MS, but I don't see how that
helps with the original problem.

Where in Arial Unicode MS, Suzanne? I must be going blind(er), but I
can't find it in the character map. Is it someplace other than the
ANSI charset?

Blessed be, for sure...

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Just where Amedee said it was, at glyph 223F, in the Mathematical Operators
character subset.

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[Klaus Linke]

Just where Amedee said it was, at glyph 223F, in the
Mathematical Operators character subset.

Or the combining double tilde, U+0360 (that I think I've mentioned further up in this thread, too).

Klaus

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Ah, that is a *double* tilde? Hmm, so it is. Kind of ugly on the screen (off
center)--perhaps prints better.

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Just where Amedee said it was, at glyph 223F, in the
Mathematical Operators character subset.

Or the combining double tilde, U+0360 (that I think I've mentioned further
up in this thread, too).

Klaus