Drawing an overbar on text?

2013-04-03 Thread Rick Mann
Is there anyway to draw an overbar or vinculum over text in an NSString or 
NSAttributedString? How about with Core Text? I suppose I could use the 
combining Unicode character.

An overbar is a solid single line over a range of glyphs: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overline

Thanks,

-- 
Rick




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Re: Drawing an overbar on text?

2013-04-03 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Apr 3, 2013, at 10:00 PM, Rick Mann rm...@latencyzero.com wrote:

 I suppose I could use the combining Unicode character.

This is probably your best bet.

--Kyle Sluder
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Re: Drawing an overbar on text?

2013-04-03 Thread Rick Mann

On Apr 3, 2013, at 22:12 , Kyle Sluder k...@ksluder.com wrote:

 This is probably your best bet.

Alas, I tried it, and I get a broken bar of varying height (depends on each 
glyph).

-- 
Rick




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