Math & Science ⇒ Overwrite Number with Diagonal Line

[ciradu]

I try to "cut" a number of four digits to simplify an equation, but I think I don't know the adequate way. I used, for example, \not{1234}, but instead of cutting the whole number, it only cut the first digit. I hope there is a solution for this.

Thanks

[localghost]

There is the cancel package. But its author doesn't recommend to use it. See the very last paragraph of its manual.


Thorsten

[ciradu]

Thank you.

I've downloaded the cancel package in the MiKTeX directory, I wrote in the preamble \usepackage{cancel}, but couldn't use it. I think I made a mistake somewhere. If I didn't specify it, I use LyX.

[Johannes_B]

What do you mean by "You can't use it"?

Does LaTeX finds the stylefile i.e. is the package properly installed (for example by using the package-manager (TexLive or Miktex)) or can't you use it, because you don't know the commands. In this case type texdoc cancel into a terminal and read the documentation. Additional information is given in the documentaion of siunitx.

[localghost]

[…] I've downloaded the cancel package in the MiKTeX directory, […] I think I made a mistake somewhere.[…]

Your mistake is that you did not use the MiKTeX Package Manager to install the package.