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From: Rik Kabel via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Cc: Rik Kabel <ConTeXt@rik.users.panix.com>
Subject: Re: Achieving the effect of \overset outside math mode
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 22:02:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <484e05d7-9d3f-55b4-8ef4-ab287b52e64f@rik.users.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5765414.lOV4Wx5bFT@sreeramtplt>


On 2021-11-11 21:47, 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.
>
> Please advise.
>
> Thanks,
> kauśika

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-12  3:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-12  2:47 kauśika via ntg-context
2021-11-12  2:49 ` kauśika via ntg-context
2021-11-12  3:02 ` Rik Kabel via ntg-context [this message]
2021-11-12  3:20   ` kauśika via ntg-context
2021-11-12  4:45 ` Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context
2021-11-12  5:34   ` Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context
2021-11-12  6:25     ` kauśika via ntg-context
2021-11-12  6:26     ` kauśika via ntg-context

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