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- From: nichols_t@cubldr.colorado.edu
- Subject: Help with subscript spacing problem
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.143306.1@cubldr.colorado.edu>
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:33:06 GMT
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- I am trying desperately to finish my PhD dissertation, and I have a TeX
- bug which I have never seen before. My ``field'' is electromagnetics (sorry)
- ;-) and I use TeX's math a LOT. My problem:
-
- I am using a set of thesis macros developed here at the University of Colorado
- (they are unsupported, but seem to work) which generate the tables and lists
- and cover page and approval page...etc. I am also using psfig to import
- Postscript files of my graphs (THAT took some time to get working :-().
- My problem is that subscripts are backspaced varying amounts in math mode
- BUT NOT display math mode. $\epsilon_r$ creates an ``epsilon'' with a
- subscript ``r'' which might be in the right place, slightly overlapping, or
- in the same place (but slightly lowered) as the ``epsilon''. I have searched
- these macros looking for what parameter could have been changed to cause this,
- to no avail. I am using TeX 3.14t3 and dvi2ps 3.1. By the way, I found
- that ONLY this combination of TeX, dvi2ps, and PsFig Release 1.2 would work
- on our system (VAX running Ultrix). We have other versions of Tex, dvi-to-
- Postscript converters, and later releases of PsFig on other systems here, but
- NO OTHER COMBINATIONS WORK. Sorry to seem like I'm shouting, but I am |-)
- It is really frustrating to deal with the subscript problem AND to know that
- I can't try other versions of TeX, etc., because they SIMPLY WILL NOT WORK.
-
- Thanks for any help you might be able to give.
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- Todd Nichols
- KB0HQU "I'm a microwave engineer."
- nichols_t@gold.colorado.edu "Oh, you make ovens?"
- University of Colorado at Boulder
-