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From: frost@sdsu.edu (Richard Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: problem with \newcommand
Message-ID: <1990Apr10.040655.5630@sdsu.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 90 04:06:55 GMT
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Reply-To: frost@sdsu.UUCP (Richard Frost)
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Organization: San Diego State University Math/Sciences Dept.
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>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.

Ken Yap has pointed out that the newcommand must be completely alphabetic:

	\newcommand{\ts}[2]{#1_{\tiny #2}}

This was very helpful.  Now about those warning messages concerning
\tiny in mathmode (naughty!).  I've tried \scriptscriptstyle as described
in Lamport's book, but it doesn't seem to be defined in article.sty, book.sty,
report.sty, and especially ucthesis.sty.

Anybody have a def for a small font size (6 or 7pt) that will work in
math mode?

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