<p class="Paragraph">Additional information about attributes in <span class="T1"><help:productname xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname> Math</span> can be found on this page. (The quotation marks are for emphasis purposes only and are not part of the examples or commands.)</p>
<p class="Paragraph">The <span class="T1">acute</span>, <span class="T1">bar</span>, <span class="T1">breve</span>, <span class="T1">check</span>, <span class="T1">circle</span>, <span class="T1">dot</span>, <span class="T1">ddot</span>, <span class="T1">dddot</span>, <span class="T1">grave</span>, <span class="T1">hat</span>, <span class="T1">tilde</span> and <span class="T1">vec</span> attributes do not always have a fixed size and do not become wider (longer) if they are above a long symbol (see also e.g. <span class="T1">dot v</span> and <span class="T1">dot vvvvvvv_22222</span> in old and new form). By default, they are centered (vgl <span class="T1">dot v_maximum</span> with <span class="T1">{dot v}_maximum</span>)</p>
<p class="Paragraph">The only attributes which grow with the length of the symbol are "overline", "underline" and "overstrike." (Also, "overstrike" puts a horizontal line through the "a" and not above it.)</p>
<p class="Paragraph">The differences between "bar" and "overline" are important. While "bar a" and "overline a" look relatively similar (except that "bar" shows a slightly shorter line), this looks totally different for long symbols. These differences become evident if you compare "bar aaaaa" to "overline aaaaa". While "bar" shows the line above one character only, "overline" adjusts to the length of the character string and shows a line above all five a in the example given.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">For some character strings, it can happen that a line inserted with "underline" is too close to the character. In these cases, an empty group helps, as shown in the following example. The common font Times New Roman was selected; as letter a capital Q: "underline Q sub {}" instead of "underline Q."</p>