On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:57:13PM +0000, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:14:22PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
...
> >> > Has the input for math changed that much from 1.2.x ? I have
> >> > noticed that
> >> > C-m A-m m CH <rightarrow> _4
> >> > works OK. ????
> >>
> >> Subscripts are not allowed inside textrm. Andre, how hard would it be
> >> to
...
> >> make sub/superscript at the end of a text region exit the textrm
> >> environment first ? And also disable sub/super in the middle ?
...
> Not sure if this is known (for some reason, I don't see the response from
> John Levon to which you responded), but whereas your original sequence
(It was quoted in the msg. I chopped out other parts above to show it more
clearly...)
> results in a setting CH in textrm, with the subscript inside the textrm
> braces (apparently verboten in LaTeX), you get the same result using
> mathrm (i.e., \mathrm{CH_4} rather than \textrm{CH_4}), and the latter is
> apparently valid LaTeX. So the next question, to which I lack an answer,
> is whether there's a key binding/command in math mode for mathrm.
>
> I'm also curious why C-m A-m m toggles between normal math font and
> textrm, rather than using mathrm. Is this because the user might not
> have mathrm (lack of the right AMS package or something)?
Talk about (my own) ignorance(!)... I just tried your suggested \mathrm{}
and the whole issue of "normal looking" letters is gone... :-))))
Getting non-italicized letters always seemed to be a pain, and chemical
symbols are not italicized. Since I come into LyX and LaTeX as a former
Windows/OS2 chemist, knowing how to accomplish what probably seems like
simple tasks to others has always been a steep curve for me.
Is this the sort of thing Lamport's book would clarify??
Thanks very much, Paul!
Kenward
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