Re: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-26 Thread James Sutherland
> I do not seem to be able to find means to cause a single > overscore bar to span more than one character. For > instance, I would like to represent the regular expression > 1(01)* in the form reminiscent of the mathematical mark > of repetition. When I use 1\bar{01} the mark has width of > one

RE: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread William R. Buckley
> -Original Message- > From: James Sutherland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:35 PM > To: LyX User > Subject: Re: WRB - More Observations > > > I do not seem to be able to find means to cause a single > overscore bar > >

Re: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread James Sutherland
>> A good LaTeX resource is helpful for a serious LyX user. For >> an under-bar, use \underline in math mode. \overline gives >> an over-bar. > > Looking for all such information. Can't really afford to buy the book by > Knuth, and since he won't allow one to process the public source, I > gues

RE: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, William R. Buckley wrote: Looking for all such information. Can't really afford to buy the book by Knuth, and since he won't allow one to process the public source, I guess I have to find alternative means to acquire the *knowledge of minutia* that seems concomitant with TeX

Re: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread rgheck
William R. Buckley wrote: A good LaTeX resource is helpful for a serious LyX user. For an under-bar, use \underline in math mode. \overline gives an over-bar. Looking for all such information. Can't really afford to buy the book by Knuth, and since he won't allow one to process the pub

Re: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I do not seem to be able to find means to cause a single overscore bar to span more than one character. For instance, I would like to represent the regular expression 1(01)* in the form reminiscent of the mathematical mark of repetition. How this can be done is explained in the math manual tha

Re: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 27 March 2008 05:00, William R. Buckley wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: James Sutherland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > A good LaTeX resource is helpful for a serious LyX user. For > > an under-bar, use \underline in math mode. \overline gives > > an over-bar. > > Look

Re: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 27 March 2008 09:26, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, William R. Buckley wrote: > > Looking for all such information. Can't really afford to buy the book by > > Knuth, and since he won't allow one to process the public source, I guess > > I have to find alternative means to ac

Re: WRB - More Observations

2008-03-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Steve Litt wrote: I think the above list costs a couple hundred bucks. Used from Amazon: about $125.00 plus shipping/handling. For someone like you or me, whose career depends on LaTeX, that's no big deal, but the person just getting his or her feet wet might not want