# Making single letters non-italic in Graphics/Text/Style objects

Suppose that I use Graphics, Text, and Style to type one letter in the subscript of a letter and one in the superscript of the same letter. In the Writing Assistant in Mathematica 9, I click the button to help typeset the string in this command:

Graphics[Text[
Style["\!$$\*SubsuperscriptBox[\(A$$, $$B$$, $$C$$]\)", 30,
FontFamily -> "Arial"]]]


The graphical output is the following.

Why do the letters A, B, and C appear italic, even though I did not specify them as such? I want the letters to all be regular font. The italicization does not happen if I take out the Graphics directive, and just use Text and Style. But I have to use Graphics because I will ultimately include it in a plot.

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check out SingleLetterItalics – chuy Apr 16 '14 at 16:27
you can change the single letter italics, referenced in the previous comment, like this: Graphics[Text[Style["...", 30,FontFamily -> "Arial",SingleLetterItalics -> False]]] – Mike Honeychurch Apr 16 '14 at 22:12

Graphics[Text[
Style[Subsuperscript["A", "B", "C"], 30, FontFamily -> "Arial",
SingleLetterItalics -> False]]]


or

Graphics[Text[
Style[Subsuperscript[Style["A", Italic], "B", "C"], 30,
FontFamily -> "Arial", SingleLetterItalics -> False]]]


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