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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 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.

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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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    $\begingroup$ check out SingleLetterItalics $\endgroup$
    – chuy
    Commented Apr 16, 2014 at 16:27
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    $\begingroup$ you can change the single letter italics, referenced in the previous comment, like this: Graphics[Text[Style["...", 30,FontFamily -> "Arial",SingleLetterItalics -> False]]] $\endgroup$
    – Mike Honeychurch
    Commented Apr 16, 2014 at 22:12

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

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or

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

enter image description here

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  • $\begingroup$ The very subtle difference lurks in from the difference of SubscriptBox and Subscript! With Subscript the text is upright in Graphics by default (v11). $\endgroup$
    – Johu
    Commented Aug 29, 2018 at 0:07

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