result either in a broken or an unbroken line, depending on the font. In Unicode, character is conjoining (bridging) two characters: . In East Asian (CJK) computing, is available. Despite the name, Unicode maps this character to both U+203E and U+00AF. Unicode maps the overline-like character from ISO/IEC 8859-1 and code page 850 to the symbol mentioned above. In a reversal of its official name (and compatibility decomposition), it is much wider than an actual macron diacritic over most letters, and actually wider than in most fonts. In Microsoft Windows, U+00AF can be entered with the keystrokes (where numbers are entered from the numeric keypad). In GTK, the symbol can be added using the keystrokes to activate Unicode input, then type "00AF" as the code for the character. On a Mac, with the ABC Extended keyboard, use . The Unicode character is used to mark Syriac abbreviations and numbers. However, several computer environments do not render this line correctly or at all. The Unicode character is used as a length mark in Odia script. Word processors In Microsoft Word, overstriking of text can be accomplished with the EQ \O() field code. The field code {EQ \O(x,¯)} produces and the field code {EQ \O(xyz,¯¯¯)} produces . (Doesn't work in Word 2010; it is necessary to insert MS Equation object). Windows: (once before character, one more time after character). LibreOffice has direct support for several styles of overline in its "Format / Character / Font Effects" dialog. Overstriking of longer sections of text, such as in , can also be produced in many text processors as text markup as a special form of understriking. TeX In LaTeX, a text <text> can be overlined with $\overline{\mbox{<text>}}$. The inner \mbox{} is necessary to override the math-mode (here invoked by the dollar signs) which the \overline{} demands. See also Ā Titlo, an overline used to indicate numerals or abbreviations in Cyrillic Underscore References Typography Punctuation Ancient Greek punctuation