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{{short description|Technique of printing two characters atop one another}}
{{about||the word processing mode where newly typed characters replace existing characters, also known as
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In [[typography]], '''overstrike''' is a method of printing [[character (computing)|character]]s that are missing from the [[printer (computing)|printer]]'s [[character set]].<ref>{{cite conference |last1=Kuehn |first1=Jules |last2=Mould |first2=David |title=Algorithmic Typewriter Art: Can 1000 Words Paint a Picture? |date=2021 |pages=108–116 |doi=10.20380/GI2021.13 |url=https://graphicsinterface.org/proceedings/gi2021/gi2021-13/ |access-date=3 February 2024 |language=en-CA|conference=Graphics Interface 2021: Virtual Event, 28 - 29 May 2021}}</ref> The character is created by placing one character on another one – for example, overstriking ⟨L⟩ with ⟨-⟩ results in printing a ⟨Ł⟩ ([[L with stroke]]) character.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Giese |first1=Ronald L. |last2=Lammert |first2=Richard A. |title=Software Review #2: Hebrew Word-Processing for the Macintosh |journal=Hebrew Studies |date=1989 |volume=30 |pages=203–211 |jstor=27909157 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27909157 |access-date=3 February 2024 |issn=0146-4094}}</ref>
The [[ASCII]] code supports six different [[diacritics]]. These are: [[grave accent]], [[tilde]], [[acute accent]] (approximated by the [[apostrophe]]), [[Diaeresis (diacritic)|diaeresis]] (double quote), [[cedilla]] (comma), and [[circumflex accent]]. Each is typed by typing the
▲The ASCII code supports six different diacritics. These are: grave accent, tilde, acute accent, diaeresis, cedilla, and circumflex accent. Each is typed by typing the preceeding character, then BackSpace, and the 'related character', which is `, ~, ', ", ,, ^ , respectively for the above mentioned accents.
[[File:Bold text using overstrike.svg|thumb|Left: letter A in regular font. Middle: Two letter A's superimposed, one of which is slightly offset to the side. Right: Resulting "fake bold" character]]
Many [[font]] renderers in [[computer programs]] invent missing [[Emphasis (typography)|bold]] characters by overstriking the normal character with itself, slightly horizontally offset.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Blake |first1=Irene A. |title=How to Configure the Overstrike in Word 2007 |url=https://smallbusiness.chron.com/configure-overstrike-word-2007-48809.html |website=Chron.com |access-date=3 February 2024}}</ref> The horizontal offset is essential
The [[APL (codepage)|character set for the APL programming language]] includes several characters that were printed by overstriking other characters on printing terminals such as the [[IBM 2741]], for example the functions {{Key press|⌽}} and {{Key press|⊖}} may be used to reverse the elements of an array.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Leong |first1=Warren W. |title=CRT Terminal Provides both APL and ASCII Operation |journal=Hewlett-Packard Journal |date=July 1977 |pages=25–28| url=https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=117ecc0a2d30a9ddd0e50900fcba94dff94ef978#page=25}} and {{cite journal |last1=Johnston |first1=Ronald L. |title=APLGOL: Structured Programming: Facilities for APL |journal=Hewlett-Packard Journal |date=July 1977 |pages=11–16|url=https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=117ecc0a2d30a9ddd0e50900fcba94dff94ef978#page=11}}</ref>
▲Many [[font]] renderers in [[computer programs]] invent missing [[bold]] characters by overstriking the normal character with itself, slightly horizontally offset. The horizontal offset is essential, since unlike a [[typewriter]], where repeating a letter in exactly the same space will make it darker, most modern printers will not darken repeated "strikes" to the same space. Actual bold fonts are designed with some features thicker and others the same size as a regular font, so the use of this "fake bold" is considered undesirable from a typographic point of view; some [[typesetting]] programs, including [[Mac OS X]]'s native font chooser and text renderer, go so far as to refuse to fake bold in this way.
The [[WordPerfect]] word processor includes overstrike functionality.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kahrel |first1=Peter |title=Foreign languages in WordPerfect |journal=ASLIB Proceedings |date=1 January 1994 |volume=46 |issue=5 |pages=135–140 |doi=10.1108/eb051357 |url=https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/eb051357/full/html |access-date=3 February 2024 |issn=0001-253X}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Gosling |first1=Joanna |title=Easily into WordPerfect 5® |date=1990 |publisher=Macmillan Education UK |isbn=978-1-349-11017-9 |pages=66–87 |chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-11017-9_8 |language=en |chapter=Enhancing Your Text|doi=10.1007/978-1-349-11017-9_8 }}</ref> [[Collabora Online]], [[LibreOffice]] and [[Microsoft Word]] do not; however Collabora Online and LibreOffice allow the use of the characters X and / (forward slash) to overstrike, using the [[strikethrough]] function.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tools for Linguistic Word Processing |url=https://pluto.huji.ac.il/~msyfalk/Tools.html |website=pluto.huji.ac.il |access-date=3 February 2024}}</ref>
▲However, with the widely adoption of Unicode(especially UTF-8, which supports a much larger number of characters in different writing systems.), this techniques is of little use today.
No known [[Keyboard layout|keyboard arrangement]] includes a function key that allows any two characters to be superimposed.
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