On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:28:40PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:12:33PM +1000, Darren Freeman wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 14:52 +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> > > Darren Freeman wrote:
> > > > Is this sensible? Does it have meaning at the LaTeX level but perhaps
> > > > shouldn't be shown to the user? (Such as LyX automatically determining
> > > > who to hang each subscript off at output time instead).
> > >
> > > There is a difference and View->Source will tell you what this
> > > difference is:
> > >
> > > Ge_{33}
> > > Ge{}_{33}
> > >
> > > In the first case, only 'e' is within the four corner marks. In the
> > > second case, a little dot will tell you that an empty symbol is used.
> >
> > As I was asking, does this really mean anything?
>
> Sure. Just look at the output of {Ge}^1 and Ge^1.
>
> The superscript is in different heights above baseline.
Not in TeX, unless the math font you use has unusually tall capital letters.
--
Enrico
