Thanks Helge, that works. Hi David, the notation is useful when you want to deal with cardinalities of sets of functions, where the superscript after a cardinal indicates cardinal powers rather than maps from one set to another.
Regards Mark Kortink e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: 0419-250-403 -----Original Message----- From: Helge Hafting [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 27 August 2007 5:57 PM To: David L. Johnson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: Re: Prefix powers bind to wrong symbol David L. Johnson wrote: > Mark Kortink wrote: >> Hi, I use a mathematical convention where when I want to show the set >> of all maps from X to Y I superscript X in front of Y (see below), as >> opposed to the more usual Y followed by superscript X. The problem is >> the X "binds" to the wrong character. I notice a little box around >> the characters that will get bound. Is there a way to tell Lyx which >> characters to bind. > > How would you do this in TeX? ISTR a discussion of this a long time > ago, In LyX, you just type \{ inside the math editor. This insert an empty group. Move the cursor past that, then insert the superscript. For how to do this in TeX, do a File->Export->LaTeX from LyX, and look at what you get. If using LyX 1.5, try view->source. I get: $A={}^{X}Y$ > The smart-ass answer would be to change your notation... Well, TeX should be able to typeset anything. :-/ Helge Hafting
