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From: kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr)
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Subject: Re: ??How to SubSubscript in Word??
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Date: 23 Jan 89 15:29:16 GMT
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In article <76000331@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
 
<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 presume you are complaining about the DEFAULT. If you use Format Character
there is a dialog for sub and superscripts that lets you determine how
far down (or up) the the sub (super) script is positioned. Enter 3 in the
By: box.

As for the size of the characters, that's manual formatting. But if you 
started with 10 point type, I'm not sure you'd want to shrink by 3 points.

Mayby Version 4.0 will allow this kind of customization???

Shirley Kehr