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  3. From: smith@minerva.harvard.edu (Steven Smith)
  4. Subject: Re: Super/subscripts -- what formula does TeX use to position?
  5. In-Reply-To: bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu's message of 28 Jan 1993 01:24:48 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <SMITH.93Jan28093846@minerva.harvard.edu>
  7. Sender: usenet@das.harvard.edu (Network News)
  8. Organization: Harvard Robotics Lab, Harvard University
  9. References: <C1FJ9C.3Jp@cs.dal.ca> <1k7cl0INN4n7@life.ai.mit.edu>
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  11. Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:38:46 GMT
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  14. bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn) writes:
  15.  
  16. > > kelley@cs.dal.ca (Dan Kelley) writes:
  17. > > 
  18. > > I need to know the formula used by TeX to position superscripts and
  19. > > subscripts.
  20. > 
  21. > See `TeX: The Program' by D.E. Knuth.
  22.  
  23. The algorithms are also described in a (slightly) less abstruse
  24. reference: Appendix G of The TeXbook.
  25.  
  26. Steven Smith
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