Thanks a lot, I will give it a look. ------------------------------------------------- Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Tennessee Carmel-Veilleux <tennessee.carmelveill...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12 August 2010 18:39, Julio Rojas <jcredbe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Thx Tennessee, I use it and its answer was.... "nearrow"!!! :D >> >> The thing is how can I overstrike this arrow over one of the terms to >> signal a simplification. > > Oh, I understand what you mean now :) > > The cancel package provides this > (http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cancel/cancel.pdf). > > Just "\usepackage{cancel}" in the preamble. > > You can insert it in math mode, but you have to be careful that in the > source view, you have "real" braces ({}) around the argument. To do this > follow these step (example: you want to cancel ab in ab+cd): > > CTRL-M (enter Math Mode) > \cancel (will appear in red) > CTRL-L (enter raw LaTeX) > type the "{" symbol on your keyboard (will insert a raw "{ }" argument box > to \cancel) > fill the box with terms to cancel, here "ab" > Exit the brace box and continue the equation: "+cd" > > I made a similar example in the screenshot attached. Hope this helps. > > I got the hint from the following: > http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.text.tex/2007-05/msg00282.html > > Best regards, > > Tennessee Carmel-Veilleux, ing. jr (OIQ) > Electrical engineering masters student, ETS (http://www.etsmtl.ca) > Project AREXIMAS (http://areximas.etsmtl.ca) > >
