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- From: kelley@cs.dal.ca (Dan Kelley)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Super/subscripts -- what formula does TeX use to position?
- Keywords: positioning
- Message-ID: <C1FJ9C.3Jp@cs.dal.ca>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 21:48:47 GMT
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- I need to know the formula used by TeX to position superscripts and subscripts,
- so that I can make my graphing program produce the same spacing. Let's assume
- that I have a single text line, and that no superscripts lie over subscripts, so
- that no repositioning will be required to avoid crowding. Then the questions I
- have are:
-
- 1) what distances are the baselines moved to (and in what units? em-space,
- x-height, ...?).
- 2) what change in font size is done?
-
- Email replies would be appreciated; I doubt whether others on the net need to
- know this.
-
- PS: Sorry to bug you folks, but I've tried reading the tex.web source, and cannot
- figure it out.
-
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