Richard Heck wrote me off list and told me how to do it. Thanks Richard!
His solution is so good I'm putting it at the bottom of this email...
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 18:27:50 Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to make a character style or command to put a registered
> trademark symbol smaller and up from the normal text line. This is ALMOST
> what I want:
>
> ==================================
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> \begin{document}
> Troubleshooters.Com%
> \raisebox{0.40\baselineskip}
> {\begin{footnotesize}\textregistered{}\end{footnotesize}}
> Bookstore
> \end{document}
> ==================================
>
> The only problem with the preceding is I've hardcoded a specific text size
> for the trademark symbol, namely footnotesize. What I REALLY want to do is
> have a way to define the trademark symbol's size as two sizes smaller than
> the current size. Anyone know how to do that?
>
> Extra credit would be if I could move the trademark symbol to the left
> slightly so that it would appear to hover over the upper right edge of the
> previous character, rather than coming after it.
Here's Richard's technique:
=================================
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{relsize}
\begin{document}
Troubleshooters.Com%
\raisebox{0.45\baselineskip}{\kern
-0.2\baselineskip\relsize{-2}\textregistered{}\relsize{0}}
Bookstore
\end{document}
=================================
It uses the relsize package, whose \relsize{} command raises or lowers the
current size by a relative amount. To move the trademark symbol closer to the
m in .Com, it uses the \kern command. Note that in order to achieve relativity
I used \baselineskip, when I really should have used something relative to
character width, but I didn't know such a measurement offhand. I think there's
something corresponding to the width of a W or something like that, and that's
what I should have used.
Once I've tested it in different situations I'll turn it into a character
style and post it. I think this should be fairly good for all superscripts
following any lower case letter.
Thanks
SteveT
Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
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