Questions tagged [subscripts]
{subscripts} are smaller characters appearing set slightly below the normal line.
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Subscripting a custom \mathbin operator
I have a custom binary operator
\newcommand{\foo}{\mathbin{\bullet^*}}
I now need to subscript sometimes, but clearly I get
instead of
Is there a way to make mathbin pass the subscript to its ...
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Overriding default subscript/superscripts with the tensor package
I wonder if it is possible to override the default sub/superscript commands with the ones coming from the tensor* package. So I would like TeX to read d^*_E as \tensor*{d}{^*_E}.
The reason why I am ...
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Subscripts in fractions on an exponent look terrible
It seems that whenever we have a fraction in an exponent, the denominator looks terrible. For example,
The K in the subscript looks unduly large. This is definitely a bug or something. Is there any ...
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How to compact an expression in subscript vertically?
I thought LaTeX would figure out by default that it should adjust some settings for the base of the logarithm in $\log_{2\sqrt[6]x}{1994}$ but it doesn't. The root symbol is too tall and extends too ...
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Locally delete ^ and _ in braces
I want to delete ^ and _ in a braces like \left( and \right) so that size change of braces ignores super and subscripts.
I want to define it as a macro, but use of xstring package does not allow me to ...
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Automatically typeset subscripts upright - how to make it compatible with greek letters?
I am looking for a way to typeset subscripts (that may contain greek letters and umlauts) upright, as a default, when using math-mode.
Upright subscripts as a default have been asked for before, and ...
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Control height of subscript in LaTeX
I have a problem with the following code
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{align*}
\operatorname{P}_{\widehat{Y}} \quad \operatorname{P}_{Y} \\
\end{align*}
\end{...
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Is it bad style to write x^2, 2^\frac{1}{2} and 2^\sqrt{2}?
Is it considered bad style to write:
x^2, 2^\frac{1}{2} and 2^\sqrt{2} (without curly brackets around the superscript)
instead of:
x^{2}, 2^{\frac{1}{2}} and 2^{\sqrt{2}}?
The same for subscripts.
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Change height of superscripts and depth of subscripts
How do I change the height of the superscripts (to make them higher) and the depth of the subscripts (to make them lower) in math mode formulas in LaTeX? For the subscripts I have tried the following ...
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Wider accent with lmodern
I'd like to create wider accents which are visible.
The accepted answer to this question is the ideal solution; it uses the accents package.
My problem appears if I use this solution with the Latin ...
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How to change height and depht for superscript and subscript outside math mode?
To display in a decent way both superscript and subscript after some text I'm using these commands
\rlap{\textsuperscript{}}\textsubscript{}
and it works.
I'm looking for a way to increase the ...
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How do I use the subcaption package in AAS such as the apjs template, and why do I get a caption marked red error when I use it?
\begin{figure*}
\centering
\begin{subfigure}[t]{0.23\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{Figure 2 (a).pdf}
\caption{Noisy full-disk image}
\end{subfigure}\hspace{1em}
\begin{...
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\mathchoice in subscript/superscript
I attempted to redefine certain math relations using \mathchoice so that they don't need to be grouped when used as subscripts and superscripts just like how they behaved originally. However, the MWE ...
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apply bar or tilde to symbol only (ignore subscript)
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
$ \bar{S_{i,k}} $
\end{document}
What I want is to span the bar only over the letter S. Obviously, the solution to this is $\bar{...
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Superscript on top and subscript on bottom in equation
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
\begin{equation}
u_{k}^{i} = \frac{\...
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