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Re: Double subscripts in LATEX summations

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From: Dirk Grunwald
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1989 15:09
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this may be of general interest. I don't know why I couldn't use \ldots
directly - it kept complaining that I should have been in mathmode.

----------test.tex----------
What are the cleanest LATEX instructions to obtain double subscripts in an
indexed summation, as in:

\newbox\ldbox
\setbox\ldbox\hbox{$\ldots$}
\def\ld{\copy\ldbox}

$$
\sum_{\vtop{\hbox{n=1,\ld,10}\hbox{m=1,\ld,10}}} a[n,m]
$$

Answer by mail if possible. Much thanks in advance.
\bye
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Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Illinois 		  (grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu)


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Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Illinois 		  (grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu)
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