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Overstrike

In typography, overstrike is a method of printing characters that are missing from the printer's character set. The character is created by placing one character on another – for example, overstriking ⟨L⟩ with ⟨-⟩ results in printing a ⟨Ł⟩ (L with stroke) character.

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Overstrike

Nodes36
Edges35
Triples4
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.055556
Components1

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Overstrike → method of printing characters that are missing from the printer's character set

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characters character overstriking printing use offset includes diacritics font bold missing set created one another example supports different however used

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Overstrikeis amethod of printing characters that are missing from the printer's character set0.90text
diacritics are still used to depict characters which cannot be shown otherwise.Many font renderers in computer programs invent missing bold characters by overstriking the normal character with itselfinstance ofcombining characters0.80text
slightly horizontally offsetinstance ofcombining characters0.80text
the IBM 2741instance ofstyle characters used in mathematics.The character set for the APL programming language includes several characters that were printed by overstriking other characters on printin…0.80text

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