Strike through
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2002 7:27 pm
Hello all,
I wish to strike through (or cross out in UK parlance) upper case characters, not with a horizontal stroke but with a slanting stroke rather like a forward slash. Does anyone know how the mechanism of strike through works? My efforts so far have been successful but clumsy and virtually unusable, for example, I modified a font so that all lower case characters typed gave upper case characters with the stroke through them. Fine, but then I had no lower case characters! The next idea was to find a little-used glyph, say the grave, and place in its position a slanting stroke, in a negative x-position, and make the bearings both coincide at 0 in order to give no advance when the grave is used to strike through the previous character. Works well until you come to try to use Backspace at a later stage for corrections. Another difficulty with the last idea manifested itself when the characters are of different widths so that three slanting strokes, in different negative positions are required for example for A, I and W.
Heigh ho.
Joe.
I wish to strike through (or cross out in UK parlance) upper case characters, not with a horizontal stroke but with a slanting stroke rather like a forward slash. Does anyone know how the mechanism of strike through works? My efforts so far have been successful but clumsy and virtually unusable, for example, I modified a font so that all lower case characters typed gave upper case characters with the stroke through them. Fine, but then I had no lower case characters! The next idea was to find a little-used glyph, say the grave, and place in its position a slanting stroke, in a negative x-position, and make the bearings both coincide at 0 in order to give no advance when the grave is used to strike through the previous character. Works well until you come to try to use Backspace at a later stage for corrections. Another difficulty with the last idea manifested itself when the characters are of different widths so that three slanting strokes, in different negative positions are required for example for A, I and W.
Heigh ho.
Joe.