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Subject: Re: ??How to SubSubscript in Word??
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In article <76000331@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
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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.
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>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      
>ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu   UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!uiucdcs!gillies


Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ??How to SubSubscript in Word??
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