Re: superscript, subscript and square root

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 09:51 +0100, Raphael Clifford wrote:
> 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 :)

Obviously the moral is that somebody with more free time than the
current maintainers should add full mathematical rendering.  Looking at
what markup Pango/GTK supports may not yield squarerootability, but I
think it can do super and sub script.

-Lars

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Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>