Primes and superscripts in mathed

Andrew Parsloe ajparsloe at gmail.com
Sun Dec 3 20:21:40 UTC 2023


On 4/12/2023 6:21 am, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 11/27/23 17:15, Andrew Parsloe wrote:
>> On 27/11/2023 6:02 pm, Isaac Oscar Gariano wrote:
>>> Personally, I just don't use the |'|​ in LyX at all, especially as 
>>> it doesn't display correctly, and as you show, doesn't combine 
>>> properly with other superscripts/subscripts.
>>> Instead, I always do |^\prime|​ which looks much nicer, and lets you 
>>> control things better.
>>>
>>> So perhaps the code would work better if it just made |'|​ 
>>> autocorrect to |^\prime|​ ?
>>>
>>> (In fact I've defined my own |\pri|​ command which alters the LaTeX 
>>> height of the |\prime|​ to one I like more; and ones that use the 
>>> |unicode-math|​ multi-prime commands |\dprime|​, |\tprime|​, and 
>>> |\qprime|​).
>>
>> I was unaware of the command \prime until looking up the TeXbook for 
>> my email. I've also now made a shortcut that does what I want. Thank 
>> you (but I still think LyX should handle the combination '^ better).
>>
> Can you file a bug for this?
>
>
> Riki
>
Ticket #13004 (Didn't fill in the keyword field. My list of keywords 
seems to have vanished in migrating between computers.)


Andrew
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