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I would like to use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl^ to enter a superscript. I have tried to type this two different ways, and each time i have gotten an undesirable result. According to the file KeyEventTranslations.tr, the binding is correct:

Item[KeyEvent["^", Modifiers -> {Control}], "Superscript"]

I am running Mathematica 8 on Windows Vista, and I currently have two keymaps installed--The standard QWERTY and a Progammer Dvorak--using Windows IME. My first attempt to type it is in standard QWERTY, I type the key sequence ShiftCtrl6. This sequence results in a dialog box as if I had entered the menu command File -> Revert.... On my Programmer Dvorak, I type the key sequence ShiftCtrl]. This sequence results in the dialog box as if I had entered the menu command Edit -> Preferences.... In both cases, the key sequences that I am referring to are the physical keys that I press, not the character produced, because in both cases, I type a '^' character.

I am very confused, because neither of these dialog boxes seem to have an keyboard shortcuts assigned, so I do not understand why I am reaching them. I have also looked in MenuSetup.tr, but I did not see anything noteworthy. What is happening, and is there a way to correct this behavior?

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  • $\begingroup$ Notably ctrl-6 or ctrl-^ does not actually yield Superscript , but Power (perhaps this is a version issue? ). Of course Power is more useful, but I came upon this pondering how to actually get Superscript by keyboard shortcut. $\endgroup$
    – george2079
    Commented May 4, 2018 at 14:52

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In the section of the manual about entering two dimensional input you can find the following quote. This may help.

On a standard English-language keyboard, the character ^ appears as the shifted version of 6. Mathematica therefore accepts Ctrl+6 as an alternative to Ctrl+^. Note that if you are using something other than a standard English-language keyboard, Mathematica will almost always accept Ctrl+6 but may not accept Ctrl+^.

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  • $\begingroup$ I think this clears up my confusion. I had believed that holding shift was giving me the equivalent of ctrl+'^', but it was not. I was actually pressing ctrl+shift+'6' and ctrl+shift+'@', depending on whether I was using the QWERTY or Programmer Dvorak keyboard maps. $\endgroup$
    – Carl Morris
    Commented Aug 30, 2012 at 1:44

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