> If you put a bar over a string of As, the length of the bar increases
> by the same amount for every A you add, but that amount is not the
> length of a bar over a lone A.
> This nonuniformity is unfortunate.
This appears to be by design. The manual page says:
accent_widthWhen bar or
The two bars below differ radically, although the barred objects have
the same width. The lone A gets a wimpy short bar. (Roman font merely
avoids possible confounding effects with slanted characters.)
.EQ
gfont R
A bar ~~~ "\&A\&" bar
.EN
If you put a bar over a string of As, the length of the ba
