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if there is an answer i believe it will lie with the FontMetrics class,
which, without looking at the book i think allows you to control the pitch
(y position (?)) of a character on the line - take a look,

apologies if i am barking up the wrong tree..


Roman Huerlimann <Roman.Huerlimann@tamedia.ch> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> How is it possible to subscript / superscript some text? My closeset
> approch til now is:
>
>   SimpleAttributeSet attrs = new SimpleAttributeSet();
>   StyleConstants.setSuperscript(attrs, true);
>   textPane.getStyledDocument().setCharacterAttributes(1, 1, attrs,
> true);
>
> In my understanding this should make the second Character smaller and
> paint it higher, but it only makes the Character smaller, it isn't
> painted higher. I've got the same result with subscript.
>
> Has anybody an idea?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Roman