Re: superscript, subscript and square root

[Raphael Clifford <raphael clifford net>]

Lars Clausen wrote:
> Raphael Clifford sagde:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for the reply.
> >
> > This is a terrible shame as clearly people would like to be able to use
> > dia for technical diagrams.  I have to say that even Wordstar could do
> > superscript :)
>
>
> I'm sure.  We don't do mail merge or spell check either.  We may be able
> to do better once we change to the standard GTK text entry widget, but we
> are not trying to be a word processing program.  While a good
> implementation would be welcome and added, it's quite low on the list of
> things we the current implementors want to spend time on.  In other words,
> it's not in the central feature set for Dia.
>
> Of course, if we became Bonobo-enabled, we could have just about anything
> in there and wouldn't have to care:)
>
> -Lars
> _

In the end I placed letters at the positions where I wanted the square 
roots etc to go. I then exported from dia as latex. I then edited the 
latex by hand substituting the letters I had put there before for the 
correct latex. I then made an empty latex document, pasted in the 
exported  and edited dia latex code. I then made a ps file from that. 
Converted it to eps to remove the extraneous white borders (ps2eps) and 
used that as my picture.

If anyone would like to take a moral from that story then please feel 
free :)

Raphael