Re: Re: How input stacked characters with vertical bar
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- Subject: [mg53086] Re: [mg53070] Re: How input stacked characters with vertical bar
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 07:58:18 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Ah ... SpanMaxSize! Now I remember somebody (you?) telling me about
that once before.
Thank you (again?).
Murray
Paul Abbott wrote:
> In article <cq8tl2$h1h$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
> Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu> wrote:
>
>
>>OK, that does stack th subscript and superscript -- but they are not
>>placed where proper mathematical notation says they should appear with
>>such a vertical bar.
>>
>>I've tried both the | key on the keyboard as well as the
>>VerticalSeparator symbol (on the Complete Characters palette). And
>>those symbols do (almost) automatically expand to the height of what's
>>immediately to their left, e.g., a stacked:
>>
>> 2
>> x
>> ---
>> 2
>>
>>But the subscript and superscript I type then are NOT located near the
>>top and bottom of the vertical bar, where they ought to appear. Rather,
>>they are quite close together vertically, as if they were the subscript
>>and superscript on a single letter.
>
>
> To get this to work, you _still_ need to select the VerticalSeparator,
> open the Option Inspector, type in span, hit return, and set the
> SpanMaxSize to Infinity.
>
> Here is an example of such a cell:
>
> Cell[BoxData[FormBox[RowBox[
> {
> FractionBox[SuperscriptBox["x", "2"], "2"],
> SubsuperscriptBox[
> StyleBox["\[VerticalSeparator]", SpanMaxSize->Infinity],
> "a", "b"]
> }
> ], TraditionalForm]],
> "Input"
> ]
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
--
Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu
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- Re: How input stacked characters with vertical bar
- From: Paul Abbott <paul@physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Re: How input stacked characters with vertical bar
- From: Paul Abbott <paul@physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Re: How input stacked characters with vertical bar