Apparently, you can have overlining if you can use Unicode -aware software. See the information from MyFonts.com.

I tried my suggestion about a blank underline above the letters, and it would only work in Word if you used a Tab. Not likely to be useful that way.

I also have the nagging impression that I saw a new font recently that had an overline for all the lower case characters, but I can't recall where I saw it.

I think the Unicode approach sounds the most promising, if someone knows of applications that can use that protocol.

I'm not sure what you mean with "overlined", Alicja? Do
you mean something line this or something like this?

Uhm... Neither. I meant overlined as in opposite to underlined, so with a line going above the characters...
Kind of like Header 1 over here - except that's css, not a font by itself.

I fear you won't find that in a font, that's something that
you typically achieve by using text or paragraph styles.

Yes... Problem is, Powerpoint has a very limited range of those, and both me and my father (who's the intended user of the font) have searched the thing thoroughly and found nothing that could be of use.
Unfortunately, if no one here knows of any font like that, I'll have to either create a font myself (a first for me) or create appropriate images and work with those, which is a none too nice prospect.
Hence my still holding out hope that someone here might know of something, somewhere, that looks somewhat similar.
Either way, thanks for the quick response, Yves - very much appreciated!

Wait a little till the Typophiles in the Americas wake up.
Who knows? Bye for now!

If your using powerpoint, click on View, Toolbars and enable the Drawing toolbar. It normally will be at the bottom of the window. You can then draw a line to the proper length and place it above the letters. You can then right click the line to adjust it width properties.

Hmm, got new info from dad - apparently, what he really wants (wish he'd told me earlier) is just the lowercase letters 'bcdnpqstu' be available "overlined", and, preferably, all the standard letters and numbers in the same style. At least if I end up creating the font from scratch, I won't have a lot of work, heh...

Out of curiosity, could you post the links to the two fonts you mentioned with lines over and under, Mike?

Doubtful if blank underlines will work in Powerpoint. Any sensible program, yeah, but I doubt it as far as MS is concerned.

As far as the Drawing thing is concerned, yes, I know about that, thank you, Bill. The problem is that drawing these every few seconds is bound to get tiring, and the slideshow my father's preparing is gonna be full of them.

Unicode-wise, I'll have to see if I can work that into Powerpoint - might be my best chance yet (though I still doubt MS products and their workability, so we'll see).

Anyway, thanks!

The closest I can think of that has only lines above the letters is ITC Simran. Most of the uppercase letters have 'overlines', as you called them, but some of those with ascenders do not.

I know two fonts with lines over and under the letters, but that doesn't seem to be what you want.

Offhand, I would say using a blank underline in the line above a character would be your easiest method to accomplish this. Depending on the application you are using (such as Word?), that might not be easy, because of the ways MS tries to 'help' you format everything.