> On 13 May 2017, at 20:10, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> On May 13, 2017, at 5:47 AM, Ranjan Maitra <mai...@email.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 12 May 2017 23:39:14 -0700 Daniel Nordlund <djnordl...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 5/12/17 4:55 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to display double dot (umlaut) over a character such as
>>>> would be possible using \ddot x in LaTeX? I can do this using tikzDevice
>>>> but I wanted something simpler to point to.
>>>>
>>>> Here is an example of what I would like to do, but it is not quite there:
>>>>
>>>> require(ggplot2)
>>>> data<-as.data.frame(c("a","b","c","a","b","c"))
>>>> colnames(data)<-"Y"
>>>> data$X<-c(1:6)
>>>> data$Z<-c(1,2,3,1,2,3)
>>>>
>>>> ggplot(data, aes(x=X)) + geom_line(aes(y = Z), size=0.43) +
>>>> xlab(expression(atop(top,bold(Age~"à"))))
>>>>
>>>> I would like to put in a double dot over the "a" in the x-axis instead of
>>>> "`".
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks for any suggestions and best wishes,
>>>> Ranjan
>>>>
>>>
>>> You haven't told what OS you are using, but with Windows OS, you can get
>>> the 'ä' by making sure the NUMLOCK key is on, hold down the alt key and
>>> press 0228 on the numeric keypad.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I am sorry, I use a linux operating system. I use Fedora 25 but the student
>> I wanted to show this uses Ubuntu, though I don't know if the distribution
>> matters.
>
> On a Mac it is cmd-u followed by the vowel of your choice. Perhaps you should
> do a google search on the topic of getting umlauted characters for the distro
> of your choice?
>
Option u followed by vowel! If you haven't changed Modifier Keys.
Berend
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