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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: ??How to SubSubscript in Word??
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Date: 18 Jan 89 15:26:00 GMT
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Command/Shift/-     puts you in subscript mode
Command/Shift/+     puts you in superscript mode
Command/Shift/space takes you back to "normal typing" mode.

The thing I dislike is that MS-Word subscripts look like sh*t.
Currently, they use a 2-point descender and shrink the font by 2
points.  This looks very bad, especially if you're subscripting
numbers.  It should be something like a 3-point descender, and a
3-point font shrink.  Furthermore, you cannot cascade subscripts, an
obvious flaw in MS-Word.  Even Xerox STAR has this basic feature.

I have not discovered a way to change the default subscript, or a way
to do cascaded subscripts without calling out the big guns from the
style sheet.  Will we have to live with this flaw forever?


Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
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