I would like to know how to use Unicode combining characters in Math.
Specifically, I would like to combine the small Greek letter theta Ux3B8 with
combining characters circumflex Ux302 into the character theta hat.
Thanks,
Daniel Volinski
Type your characters as you would “naturally”. In Unicode the sequence is base glyph followed by combining characters.
If your keyboard has no key for the desired diacritics, type its hexadecimal encoding followed by Alt+X. When the character preceding the hex digits is itself among A-Za-z0-9, prefix the hex digits with U+ to eliminate the ambiguity.
Note: I experimented with theta + circumflex. It gives an horrible result because theta is quite high and circumflex overlays the top curve of the theta.
I think you don’t want a letter + circumflex. Rather you want to add a hat “operator” over the letter. The correct way to do this in Math is to type hat %THETA (uppercase theta) or hat %theta (lowercase theta). But in the latter case, Math formats the lower case theta italic which results in a bad looking combined symbol. Then enter nitalic hat %theta.
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… or nitalic hat 3B8 Alt+X.
Thanks,
Daniel Volinski
En jueves, 1 de agosto de 2024, 22:11:01 GMT+3, Mike Kaganski via Ask LibreOffice noreply@ask.libreoffice.org escribió:
mikekaganski
August 1
ajlittoz:
The correct way to do this in Math is to type
hat %THETA
… or nitalic hat 3B8 Alt+X.
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