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From: Adriano Pascoletti on 25 Oct 2009 01:17

>From Mathematica 7 tutorial/EnteringTwoDimensionalInput

Ctrl+% or Ctrl+5 : go from subscript to superscript or vice versa, or to the
exponent position in a root

So, try x Ctrl ^2 Ctrl 5 1

Adriano Pascoletti

2009/10/24 Nasser M. Abbasi <nma(a)12000.org>

> Version 7
>
> I wanted to write something like Superscript[Subscript[x, 1], 2] but have
> the "2" and the "1" appear on the symbol x without one being pushed forward
> more than the other.
>
> This is trivial to do in latex, but gave up trying to do it in Mathematica.
>
> I am actually trying to use Mathematica more to type set some math inside a
> Text cell, and the above is one problem I find. I actually use the
> keyboard
> and type Ctrl9 to open a math cell inside the text cell and type
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> x Ctrl ^2 spacebar Ctrl _1
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> and I get
>
> 2
> (x )
> 1
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> when I want
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> 2
> x
> 1
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> I looked the all the Palettes also that come with Mathematica 7, but do not
> see such a pattern to use?
>
> thanks,
> --Nasser
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