Re: superscript, subscript and square root

[Raphael Clifford <raphael clifford net>]

Lars Clausen wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 09:51 +0100, Raphael Clifford wrote:
>
> > In the end I placed letters at the positions where I wanted the square 
> > roots etc to go. I then exported from dia as latex. I then edited the 
> > latex by hand substituting the letters I had put there before for the 
> > correct latex. I then made an empty latex document, pasted in the 
> > exported  and edited dia latex code. I then made a ps file from that. 
> > Converted it to eps to remove the extraneous white borders (ps2eps) and 
> > used that as my picture.
> >
> > If anyone would like to take a moral from that story then please feel 
> > free :)
>
>
> Obviously the moral is that somebody with more free time than the
> current maintainers should add full mathematical rendering.  Looking at
> what markup Pango/GTK supports may not yield squarerootability, but I
> think it can do super and sub script.
>
> -Lars


Thanks very much and thank you for all your collective efforts in 
writing dia.

Raphael