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From: jeynes@adobe.COM (Ross A. Jeynes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Superscript etc in Postscript
Keywords: Bold, superscript, italic etc.
Message-ID: <1927@adobe.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 90 22:11:19 GMT
References: <2879@ursa.UUCP>
Reply-To: jeynes@adobe.UUCP (Ross A. Jeynes)
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
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In article <2879@ursa.UUCP> raj@ursa.UUCP () writes:
>When you print a string using the show command (or equivalent)
>is there a way of embedding escape sequences in the string
>to obtain subscript, superscript, bold, italic etc. effects?
>

Here's a very general procedure to do super/subscript. 

The way it works: pass SS the string to be shown, the distance above or
below the baseline to show the string, and a multiplier of the current
pointsize to show the string in (1/2 usually looks pretty good). 

Any other good ideas out there?

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/bdef {bind def} bind def

/SS {  % (str) DeltaY PtSizeMult SS --      superscript / subscript 
  gsave
    currentfont exch scalefont setfont    % (str) DeltaY
    0 exch rmoveto                        % (str)
    show                                  % --
    currentpoint pop                      % x
  grestore
  currentpoint exch pop                   % x y
  moveto
} bdef


/Times-Roman findfont 20 scalefont setfont

100 100 moveto
(This is normal text) show
( and this is superscript) 7 .5 SS

showpage
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Ross "let's program, dudes" Jeynes              
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