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[Phil Mendelsohn <address@hidden>]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 07:58:03AM -0600, Phil Mendelsohn wrote:

> > > 1:  (BUG)  Apparently, in math mode, using the ESC-B (overbar) has the
> > > problem that moving forward does not just move out of the overbar
> > > construct, it moves out of all current environments.  I have to move
> > > out then move the cursor back in to math mode, but just before the
> > > character with the overbar in order to continue with math (or theorem,
> > > or whatever is applicable.)
> > 
> > Could you provide a more precise procedure? I was unable to reproduce the 
> > problem here.
> 
> It is apparently only a problem when using certain capital letters.
> overbar 's' works OK, but overbar 'S' jumps out of math mode.  overbar
> 'N' apparently works correctly, so this is a little more odd than I thought.
> 
> I did some checking, and it doesn't matter if you do it from the
> keyboard or from the drop-down accent menu.  ESC-B, or bar, then say S
> (complement of S) is typeset, then moving forward, either by CTRL-F or
> right-arrow takes the cursor out of math mode.  This does not happen
> with any of the other accent characters -- tilde, vector -- though I
> haven't thoroughly tested every possible combination yet.

Sorry -- I have to correct myself.  Doing vector + 'S' also causes the
problem, but not vector + 's'.

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