On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 13:09 -0500, Matt Price wrote: > 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... >
Again from Help, how about a' csub 0? Works for me. -- Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]