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Subject : Re: LUG: LaTeX problem with bar/overline

From : "Daniel Underwood" <daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:25:55 -0500

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See attached. The first X uses \bar{X}, the second X uses \overline{X}, and the third X uses the non-free MathTime Pro font.

On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:21 -0500, "Andrew Austin" <adausti2@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
> Can you provide an example of how you want it to look? \overline{}
> looks fine to me.
>
> Andrew
>
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Daniel Underwood
> <daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
> > Hope this isn't too off-topic.  I know many of you guys are familiar
> > with LaTeX, so I figured I'd ask.
> >
> > There doesn't appear to be a way to correctly typeset a line above a
> > symbol to denote, for example, the sample mean of a random variable.
> > That is, I can't figure out a way to correctly display X-bar (X with a
> > line over it denoting the mean of random variable X).  There are two
> > ways that I know of to do this: \bar{X} and \overline{X}.  But each of
> > these is flawed.  One is far too small (FYI: this also happens with
> > \hat{X}), and one is ridiculously large.  Here is how each of these
> > looks: <http://mathbin.net/58379>
> >
> > Now, in the Windows (and apparently Mac) world, there is a solution:
> > MathTime Pro II fonts: <http://www.pctex.com/mtpro2.html>
> >
> > One of my professors uses this, and things look perfect.  I tried to use
> > this with my standard texlive installation (on Ubuntu), but I couldn't
> > get it to work.  If any of you could get it to work (there's a free Lite
> > version available on the website), please please tell me how!  Or if
> > anyone knows an alternative way to display X-bar, please let me know.
> >
> > This, to me, is extremely troubling.  This notation is prevalent, and I
> > find it shocking that there doesn't appear to be a way to typeset it
> > correctly.
> >
> > TIA,
> > Daniel
> > --
> > Daniel Underwood
> > North Carolina State University
> > PhD Student - Industrial Engineering
> > email: daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]
> > phone: XXX.302.3291
> > fax: XXX.515.5281
> > web: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~djunderw/
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew Austin
> http://andrew-austin.com
>
>
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Daniel Underwood
North Carolina State University
PhD Student - Industrial Engineering
email: daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]
phone: XXX.302.3291
fax: XXX.515.5281
web: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~djunderw/

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