On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 08:28:47AM -0500, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 23:12 -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > hi folks: simple idiot question: what symbol do folks use as a > > superscript for a 'primed' variable, e.g., one which in plain > > text would be written > > > > x' > > > > and called "x-prime"? > > > > >From Help, how about using x^'?
well, maybe that's what one's supposed to do, but it puts the ' way up high and rather far from the variable name. For a simple X' this isn't really a problem, as I can just use the straightforward notation x' and it shows up fine. But if I want to add a subscript a well -- e.g., x-prime-zero -- I can't use this solution, since the notation x'_0 then puts the subscripted zero well off to the side. I had thought of maybe using the pipe symbol, but in addition to being a little too big, the symbol is part of the internal markup syntax, which leads to unexpected results sometimes. Anyway, it's not urgent, as I'm not a mathematician or anything, but sometimes it'd be nice... matt -------------------------- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'` & hemi-geek `- -------------------------- if you're an evil spambot, these addresses are for you: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
