Does anyone know where I can find a free font that has basic statistics characters such as x bar? I’ve been looking around and I haven’t seen anything. Or is there some way to type x bar that I don’t know about?
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- Well, you can download High-Logic’s Font Creator and make a .ttf font yerself. -You can change any of the glyphs/symbols, and you only need to change the ones you want changed (start with an already-existing font). Then just re-name it “garbage_math_symbols” or whatever, and install.
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And it’s trialware, but it doesn’t stop working after the trial period.
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And it doesn’t allow re-doing hinting. So your home-made characters will look funny on-screen, but will print on paper perfectly…
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- Well, you can download High-Logic’s Font Creator and make a .ttf font yerself. -You can change any of the glyphs/symbols, and you only need to change the ones you want changed (start with an already-existing font). Then just re-name it “garbage_math_symbols” or whatever, and install.
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Are you using Word or similar word processor? I think you can do it with the built-in equation editor.
The geek’s solution is to write the whole document in LaTeX. I find it much easier than using Word when I have to deal with math symbols or equations.
I have MS’s Equation Editor EQNEDT32.EXE which I believe comes standard with Windows (or you can probably find it quite easily).
The MS equation editor is included with Office, not Windows. Though I think it’s not installed by default and you have to specify it manually during installation (or run Setup again to add it later).
Oh, ok. Makes sense as I have Office 97
The not so geek (but still geek) solution may be to download scientific notebook trial version (www.mackichan.com). You’ll get the document as .ps or tex (not good format to export to word)
Very nice – thank you all for the tips. I looked at a lot of fonts last night, then I checked out a “Windowed” version of LaTeX since I’m not currently running a *nix OS on my machine. Thanks again.