Re: Subscripts and superscripts

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Jérémie Knüsel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to make a suggestion for a new feature: the possibility to have
> subscripts and superscripts in text objects. I know the possibility to
> include LateX-style equations has already been discussed (or at least,
> the idea has been emitted)

I am actually working a little bit on a TeX object.  I've gotten to where I
can call TeX.

> and it would of course be very nice, but I guess it's quite complicated
> to implement... However subscripts and superscripts are often used in
> diagrams, and I think it would be very useful to have Dia recognize these
> two LaTeX "commands" (ie. one writes v_{0}^{2} for v0 squared).

If you can do Pango markup for it, we can do it.

-Lars

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