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From: frost@sdsu.edu (Richard Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: problem with \newcommand
Message-ID: <1990Apr10.002043.877@sdsu.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 90 00:20:43 GMT
Reply-To: frost@sdsu.UUCP (Richard Frost)
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Organization: San Diego State University Math/Sciences Dept.
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hi!

I'm having a hard time declaring my own command (re: LaTeX page 55)
to generate a certain sequence of text.  What I'd like to have
is a macro that works in math mode (math, displaymath, equation, eqnarray ...)
and generates an "r" with a tiny subscript.  Why ?? Because
	$r_{1}^{2}$
is ugly!  The 1 and the 2 are the same size and in the same horizontal
position.  Now I've tried the following, but perhaps someone has a
better approach:
	\newcommand{\r1}{r_{\tiny 1}}
The problem with my idea is that it doesn't work.  First thing I found is
that LaTeX blows up if I put it in the preamble.  Next shock was that
if I put it after \begin{document}, LaTeX output a "1" where the command
was located but otherwise ignored the declaration.

What's going on here?

thanks...
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Richard Frost	Mathematical Sciences, SDSU CA 92182
Internet:  frost@sdsu.edu