I'm not sure if I missed a step or something, but it didn't seem to work. The
tilde was placed next to the letter but down the bottom, like a subscript,
whereas I need it to be underneath the letter.
Often in printing they just use bold letters to represent vectors, but since
you can't do bold when working by hand we use tildes Our lecturer still wants
us to use them even when we're typing it out.
"Jay Freedman" wrote:
Hi Ben,
There is a way, although it takes some unintuitive setup. (By the way,
MathType is highly recommended anyway!)
- In an empty equation box, type the number 0330 and press Alt+X. That
inserts a character from the Cambria Math font called "Combining Tilde
Below" (which you can find in the Combining Diacritical Marks section of the
Insert Symbol dialog).
- Select that character. Click the tiny arrow in the lower right corner of
the Tools group on the Equation Tools ribbon, and click the Math AutoCorrect
button in the dialog.
- In the AutoCorrect dialog, the tilde will already be in the "With" box. In
the Replace box to the left, type a name such as \utilde (or anything else
you can easily remember, and that isn't already in use). Click the Add
button and then OK both dialogs.
Now, in any equation, you can type the letter for the vector followed by the
name you assigned to the combining tilde, followed by the space bar (which
will force the replacement but won't insert a space character). The result
will be a tilde below the letter.
Incidentally, in my former career as an editor of science and maths
textbooks, I very rarely saw a tilde or anything else below a letter used to
indicate a vector. It's much more common to use a boldface character, with
or without an arrow above it. The arrow-above is on the Accent gallery.
--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
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Ben wrote:
I'm doing maths at uni and we have to type out our equations, which i
thought would be fine. The only problem is that we are doing vectors
and the symbol for vectors is a letter with a tilde (~) placed
underneath it. In the old equation editor you used to be able to do
this, but I can't find it anywhere. Is there a way to do it in the
current equation editor or will I have to get MathType or something
similar?