I would be most grateful for suggestions on how best to code the conventional symbol for the sample mean (which I am taking to be a small x with a bar immediately above it) in the language of html.
At present, I am using the following approach:
<style type="text/css">
#overline {text-decoration: overline}
</style>
<div id=overline>x,</div>
However, this tends to give a rather make-shift result, as the 'overline' tends to sit rather aloof from the x. Moreover, the character is forced onto a new line and therefore is not embedded in my sentence as wished.
I have consulted several good html books and discovered that whilst listings of characters and codes are made for many characters including latin letters with circumflexes, the character I am after is not represented.
I am learning html almost from scratch and expect that a more experienced user could offer some code which has worked for them in the past.
An alternative approach would be to capture as an image the result of creating my desired character using an MS Word equation editor. However, this seems a little far fetched for just one character.
Thank you in advance for your suggestions.
Best wishes
Margaret
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