Looking for a simple method to use a widebar over a letter with subscript, but have the space remain the same as when using \bar
as \overline
produces large space which does not look good even though the bar length is fine, while widebar
from \usepackage{mathabx}
reduces the gap, but the bar length is not as wide (in addition, I do not want to use mathabx package as I got compile error relating to fonts in some builds).
\documentclass[]{article}%
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{mathabx} %causes problems sometimes
\begin{document}
$\bar{V}_H$
$\overline{V}_H$
$\widebar{V}_H$
\end{document}
I saw this question Can I get a \widebar without using the mathabx package? which I tried (even though I prefer a much simpler solution) but still I see large space gap as above.
question is: Is there a simple
Latex way to reduce the space to that similar to using \bar, but still have wide bar over the letter? Like the last image shown below (produced using my advanced skill using paint.exe on windows 7 by manually shifting the letter H
over to the left to where I want it positioned)
Using texlive 2013 in Linux mint 16 (please give a simple solution if possible, nothing too advanced, as I am a newbie in Latex)