On Sun, 14 May 2017 09:08:46 -0700 David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > > On May 14, 2017, at 8:43 AM, Ranjan Maitra <mai...@email.com> wrote: > > > > Thanks, Duncan! > > > > This works for the particular case and is, to my mind, a great solution! > > > > However, I was wondering: is it possible to use these double dots with > > another character, such as omega? > > > > I apologize for changing the question somewhat, but I did not realize > > earlier that there were separate codes for putting double dots over > > different letters and I thought that figuring out the simpler question > > would be enough for me to figure out the next step. > > I think you should be looking for a LaTeX solution. There is a > tikzDevice-package. > > This says you can assemble symbols with backspaces: > > https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~partha/symbols.pdf > > For instance, LATEX defines \hbar (“~”) as a “¯” character (\mathchar’26) > followed by a backspace of 9 math units (\mkern-9mu), followed by the letter > “h”: > > The second example in ?tikz, which could be a starting point for completing > your task fails on my Mac by only displaying the names of the glyphs but not > the glyphs themselves in the plot, but it might have a better chance of > succeeding on a Linux box. Thanks! I was trying to avoid using tikz but I guess that there may well be no other alternative. Best wishes, Ranjan ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
