Re: Achieving the effect of \overset outside math mode

["kauśika via ntg-context" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>]

On Friday, November 12, 2021 11:04:20 AM IST Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context 
wrote:
> Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context schrieb am 12.11.2021 um 05:45:
> > On Fri, 12 Nov 2021, kauśika via ntg-context wrote:
> >> Dear list,
> >> 
> >> I don't have a MWE per se, but as the title suggests, I want to be able
> >> to
> >> achieve the effect of \overset outside math mode. As I understand,
> >> \overset
> >> itself is implemented using \mathop and \limits.
> >> 
> >> Currently to achieve this I have defined some macros using \offset thus :
> >> \define[1]\pabv{\dontleavehmode\offset[width=0em,y=-16pt,x=3pt]{#1}}
> >> Unfortunately, I have to hard code the x values. So I have define several
> >> such macros with different offsets. Not an elegant solution, but it is
> >> what I could muster.
> >> 
> >> So, my objective is to place a smaller piece of text above another larger
> >> piece of text so that the text above is centered w.r.t the text below.
> > 
> > Wolfgang has a ruby module, which provides this feature.
> > 
> > https://ctan.org/pkg/context-ruby
> > 
> > Doc:
> > https://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/context/contrib/context-ruby/doc/cont
> > ext/third/ruby
> Use the built-in \ruby function, the module broke at some point after
> Hans added a similar function himself and I never fixed my own code
> afterwards.
> 
> Wolfgang
> 
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Thanks Aditya and Wolfgang! I am now using the \ruby function in LMTX to 
achieve this.

Thanks,
kauśika


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