On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:12:33PM +1000, Darren Freeman wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 14:52 +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> > Darren Freeman wrote:
> > > Is this sensible? Does it have meaning at the LaTeX level but perhaps
> > > shouldn't be shown to the user? (Such as LyX automatically determining
> > > who to hang each subscript off at output time instead).
> >
> > There is a difference and View->Source will tell you what this
> > difference is:
> >
> > Ge_{33}
> > Ge{}_{33}
> >
> > In the first case, only 'e' is within the four corner marks. In the
> > second case, a little dot will tell you that an empty symbol is used.
>
> As I was asking, does this really mean anything?
Sure. Just look at the output of {Ge}^1 and Ge^1.
The superscript is in different heights above baseline.
> I tried this in a fresh document and can't see a difference in the
> generated output.
> Does TeX consider Ge_{33} to be a Ge with a subscript, or a G followed
> by an e with a subscript, or treat both as equivalent?
G followed by e with subscript.
Andre'
