>At 00:31 -0500 04/12/2001, DougEwell2@cs.com wrote:
>
>>Yes, you are all right: the character used in (as it turns out)
>>the medical field to mean "with" is, in fact, c-overbar and not c-underbar.
>>In Unicode we would say U+0063 U+0305.
>
>The overbar being a flat form of tilde, which in medieval hands were
>used to indicate an omitted m or n following.
I believe there is also a (medical) s-overbar abbreviation for "without"
(latin sin, no doubt) and an ss-overbar abbreviation for "one-half."
Presumably these are only used in handwriting by specially trained people.
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