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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.8, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <!-- This manual is for GNU Texinfo (version 6.8, 8 June 2021), a documentation system that can produce both online information and a printed manual from a single source using semantic markup. Copyright (C) 1988, 1990-1993, 1995-1999, 2001-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". --> <title>Inserting Subscripts and Superscripts (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="Inserting Subscripts and Superscripts (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="Inserting Subscripts and Superscripts (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="texi2any"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> <link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" rel="index" title="Command and Variable Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Insertions.html" rel="up" title="Insertions"> <link href="Inserting-Math.html" rel="next" title="Inserting Math"> <link href="Inserting-Quotation-Marks.html" rel="prev" title="Inserting Quotation Marks"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.copiable-anchor {visibility: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 0em} a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} span:hover a.copiable-anchor {visibility: visible} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> </head> <body lang="en"> <div class="section" id="Inserting-Subscripts-and-Superscripts"> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Inserting-Math.html" accesskey="n" rel="next"><code>@math</code> and <code>@displaymath</code>: Formatting Mathematics</a>, Previous: <a href="Inserting-Quotation-Marks.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Inserting Quotation Marks</a>, Up: <a href="Insertions.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Special Insertions</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <span id="g_t_0040sub-and-_0040sup_003a-Inserting-Subscripts-and-Superscripts"></span><h3 class="section">11.6 <code>@sub</code> and <code>@sup</code>: Inserting Subscripts and Superscripts</h3> <span id="index-sub"></span> <span id="index-sup"></span> <span id="index-Subscripts-and-superscripts_002c-text"></span> <p>You can insert subscripts and superscripts with the <code>@sub</code> and <code>@sup</code> commands. For example: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">here@sub{below}@sup{above} </pre></div> <p>produces: </p> <div class="display"> <pre class="display">here<sub>below</sub><sup>above</sup> </pre></div> <p>In Info and plain text, <code>@sub{<var>text</var>}</code> is output as ‘<samp>_{<var>text</var>}</samp>’ and <code>@sup{<var>text</var>}</code> as ‘<samp>^{<var>text</var>}</samp>’, including the literal braces (to mark the beginning and end of the “script” text to the reader). </p> <p>When the output format (and display program) permit (TeX, HTML), the superscript is set above the subscript when both commands are given consecutively. </p> <p>For subscripts and superscripts in mathematical expressions, it is better to use TeX’s ‘<samp>_</samp>’ and ‘<samp>^</samp>’ characters. See the next section. </p> </div> </body> </html>