[XeTeX] Cutting a character

[Wybo Dekker]

This works, but I can imagine more elegant solutions (change white into 
red in order to see what actually happens):

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{color,calc}
\newcommand{\half}[1]{%
   \setbox0=\hbox{#1}%
   \def\bgcolor{white}%
   #1\hskip-.5\wd0%
   \textcolor{\bgcolor}{%
     \raisebox{-.2\ht0-\dp0}{\rule{.5\wd0}{1.4\ht0+\dp0}}}%
}
\begin{document}\Huge
OMIgh\par
\half{O}\half{M}\half{I}\half{g}\half{h}
\end{document}

Mehdi Omidali wrote:
> Hi all,
> Is it possible to construct a box that contains a fraction (say half) of 
> a character (horizontal half) of a font.
> Mehdi

-- 
Wybo