Simple Text/Font Question:: How to make overbars?

This is tricky. Here is an example:

Textbox /C /N=Test "H\\[1e\\y+40\\L1500\\y-40llo"

This has four escape sequences introduced by double-backslashes:

\\[1 means "store the current text info (font, size, style, X position, y position) in text info variable 1

\\y+40 means move up 80 percent of the height of the current font

\\L1500 means draw a line from the current X position to the X position stored in text info variable 1

\\y-40 means move down 80 percent of the height of the current font

Double-backslashes are used in literal text to represent a single backslash. If you were entering this in the Add Annotation dialog, you would use a single backslash and the dialog would convert it to double backslashes.

To learn more about this arcane subject, execute:

DisplayHelpTopic "About Text Info Variables"

To see all of the codes available in a textbox or legend, execute:

DisplayHelpTopic "Textbox"

and scroll down to the Details section.

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Thanks!! I will look into this now.

Thanks again.

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