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It's not a very common notation, but i see it from time to time.
I don't have time right now to hunt down an example, but I'll keep my eyes open and post back if find one.

The smallest font that I can use is 5pt. If I request anything smaller than that, latex complains and makes it 5pt anyways.
I've managed to get approximately what I was after using a combination of \raisebox and \scalebox. it doesn't look the best (it doesn't render properly in the dvi file either ...

I can only get down to 6pt font. This is still too big. Even if I define a new size command as 1pt, latex complains and returns me to 6pt. I think I need an actual smaller '(' character that does not need to be scaled. I'll look around and post back.

\overset is a step in the right direction, but it can't seem to get the size of parentheses right. The standard font size is way to big, the parenthesis should not be significantly wider than the bar. I can make them bigger using \Big etc... but \small,\tiny etc doesn't seem to do anything.

I suppose you could make a six column table. Put (1),(2),(3) in columns 1, 3, and 5. Then put arrays with your equations in columns 2, 4, and 6.
or you could make it a 6x3 table if you want the (n)'s to line up at the top.

sorry I should have been more clear. I would like the parentheses included in the 'overness.' That is, parenthesis around the line, all over the 'p'
Kinda like this:
(-)
p

I would like to have an overbar in parentheses to imply particles and antiparticles (ie p or \bar{p}). I've seen this notation used in PRL so I presume it can be done in latex.
Does anyone know how?

Cheers,
Steve