When I add a sub- or superscript to a letter in a "Text"
cell using the "Writing Assistant" palette this letter becomes Italic
:
Moreover the letter "v" in the subscript is wrongly formatted as being a variable. How to typeset it as Plain
?
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Sign up to join this communityWhen I add a sub- or superscript to a letter in a "Text"
cell using the "Writing Assistant" palette this letter becomes Italic
:
Moreover the letter "v" in the subscript is wrongly formatted as being a variable. How to typeset it as Plain
?
You can compute in a separate cell this expression:
Subscript[C, 3 v]
and then paste the output in your in-line text where you need it. Many things will work, including ideas from comments, - compare the difference in the outlook:
Row@{
Style[Subscript[C, 3 v], 100], Spacer[30],
Style[Subscript[C, 3 v], 100, "Text"], Spacer[30],
Style[Subscript[C, 3 v], 100, SingleLetterItalics -> False], Spacer[30],
Style[Subscript[C, 3 v], 100, FontFamily -> "Amienne"]}
To understand the difference click in any version and press CTRL+SHIFT+E. I guess you need to choose the version more suitable for your case.
While j-- idea is neat and preferable for simple cases, while dealing with complex in-line expressions with many indexes and other italicized forms - it is better compute desirable style at once for the whole expression.
To address programatically issue mentioned by Jens - the gab between characters in the subscript - one could use
Subscript[C, Row[{3 , v}]]
Stylistically, the Italic
toggling, the Text
or SingleLetterItalics
solutions all still have one problem: the spacing between the 3
and the v
is too large because it's treated as if it's a multiplication. What I'd consider correct output would be this:
and not this:
I'm using the version 8 default style, but the argument is the same in version 9.
And how do I get the correct output? Unfortunately, it requires several additional key presses:
C3v
without Subscript
in an inline cell 3v
and press Cmd-$-$ twice to shrink the text size appropriate for a subscript (I needed to re-highlight the 3v
while shrinking it)3v
still highlighted, press Ctrl-$\downarrow$ (on Mac; it's Alt on PC) four times to shift the baseline to subscript level. I wish I had an easier answer, but if you want the "right" look this appears to be the shortest path. I tried doing the Subscript
the normal way and just adjusting the v
to the left afterwards, but then I can't get it to be in plain text anymore (it stays italic no matter what I do).
It may be best to define such textual subscripts as "macros" if you plan on re-using them.
You could take the approach of defining a custom style to make the text look however you like, within the bounds of Mathematica's formatting capabilities. For example, in the private style sheet I paste:
Cell[StyleData["NoItalic"],
StyleMenuListing->None,
SingleLetterItalics->False,
ShowStringCharacters->False,
AutoSpacing->False,
ZeroWidthTimes->True
]
Now in a new text cell enter my subscript and select it:
Then I press Alt+0 and enter NoItalic
, which yields:
As you can see this also addresses the spacing concern that Jens discussed. You can keep multiple styles for different purposes, each with potentially extensive customization.
You could, for example, type the sentence and the subscript part just as you did using the Writing Assistant pallette. Then, you can highlight the letter C and switch it to Plain
using the command Italic
(on Windows, Ctrl+I or using the Writing assistants pallette). The same principle works also for the subscript.
One satisfactory workaround is to represent as String
all the text and use the option ShowStringCharacters -> False
:
Style[Subscript["C", "3v"], "Text", ShowStringCharacters -> False]
I think that such option should be included in the "Writing Assistant" palette. At this moment there is not too many assistance from it...
SingleLetterItalics -> False
? $\endgroup$ – rm -rf♦ Feb 10 '13 at 7:12TraditionalForm
style with"Text"
. Addition ofSingleLetterItalics -> False
itself does not work if the style isTraditionalForm
. Is it possible to make"Text"
the default style for inline cell when it is automatically created while editing a"Text"
cell using a palette? $\endgroup$ – Alexey Popkov Feb 10 '13 at 7:56TraditionalForm
when dealing with complex in-line math expressions. That probably deserves a separate post. $\endgroup$ – Vitaliy Kaurov Feb 10 '13 at 8:07