X bar symbol
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X bar symbol
Does anyone know how to produce an x bar symbol in Mellel? You know, the symbol for the statistical mean - a lower case x (greek letter chi actually) with an overline or macron over it. I can't figure it out, even witth the character palette. Please help.
It looks like the x-bar symbol isn't a separate symbol in the unicode standard and therefore you couldn’t find it in the character palette. It’s a symbol that is generated by equation editors of the two components “x” and the bar “—”.
To insert such a character into Mellel, you could either use the new (as of version 2.2) overline feature (insert the character x and then add a overline instead of a underline via the Character Appearance palette) or you could use a external equation editor to generate the character.
With the freely available LaTeXiT*, the symbol is generated by inserting the code “\bar x” into the LaTeXiT code window.
LaTeXiT requires a LaTeX base installation which could be downloaded via the so called i-installer from this website: http://ii2.sourceforge.net/tex-index.html
To insert such a character into Mellel, you could either use the new (as of version 2.2) overline feature (insert the character x and then add a overline instead of a underline via the Character Appearance palette) or you could use a external equation editor to generate the character.
With the freely available LaTeXiT*, the symbol is generated by inserting the code “\bar x” into the LaTeXiT code window.
LaTeXiT requires a LaTeX base installation which could be downloaded via the so called i-installer from this website: http://ii2.sourceforge.net/tex-index.html
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Re: X bar symbol
The standard way to do macron x would be with the US Extended layout, typing x then Option + Shift a. However it may only look right with some fonts, like Lucida Grande. You can also try it with chi. For an overline you can input U+0305 from the Character Palette after x or chi.one09jason wrote:Does anyone know how to produce an x bar symbol in Mellel? You know, the symbol for the statistical mean - a lower case x (greek letter chi actually) with an overline or macron over it. I can't figure it out, even witth the character palette. Please help.