SOLUTION: AMSLaTeX \fontdimen problem

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From: Gerhard R. Kircher
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 10:31

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Some weeks ago I posted the following question:

> I recently installed AMSLaTeX v1.0 and now have the following (hopefully 
> simple) problem.  I like to have subscripts and superscripts at the same 
> level.  Up to now, I could achieve this by
> 	\fontdimen16\tensy=2.7pt
> 	\fontdimen17\tensy=2.7pt
> as recommended in the TeXbook.  With the new Mittelbach-Sch\"opf font
> selection scheme, this clearly no longer works.  So, what can I do?
> 
> Please send your suggestions by email to 
> 	kircher@neuro.tuwien.ac.at
> as I don't regularly follow this newsgroup.

Here is the Answer (for NFSS/AMSLaTeX 1.1):

{\fontfamily{cmsy}\selectfont\global\fontdimen16\font=2.7pt}

gerhard

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