[Q] Double superscript
Moni Islam (Imperial College)
{\phi^k}^3. I get an emergency stop when LaTeX reaches this point in
the text.
Can anyone tell me how to get around this problem? Many thanks.
Moni Islam
Simon Cozens
> LaTeX does not seem to like double superscripts of the type
> {\phi^k}^3. I get an emergency stop when LaTeX reaches this point in
> the text.
Emergency stop? That's a weird one, usually means you hit ^C. Assuming
you *didn't* do that, could you post the output of running this file
through latex:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
${\phi^k}^3$
\end{document}
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David Kastrup
> Moni Islam (Imperial College) (comp.text.tex):
> > LaTeX does not seem to like double superscripts of the type
> > {\phi^k}^3. I get an emergency stop when LaTeX reaches this point in
> > the text.
>
> Emergency stop? That's a weird one, usually means you hit ^C. Assuming
> you *didn't* do that, could you post the output of running this file
> through latex:
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \begin{document}
> ${\phi^k}^3$
> \end{document}
Works here, but produces a result that is typographic junk of the
worst kind. You should either write
$(\phi^k)^3$
or
$\phi^{k^3}$
depending on what you intended. Probably the latter.
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Maurizio Loreti
> LaTeX does not seem to like double superscripts of the type
> {\phi^k}^3. I get an emergency stop when LaTeX reaches this point in
> the text.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to get around this problem? Many thanks.
Your installation is broken. See:
MLO@cmssun2 13 $ cat foo.tex
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\LaTeX\ does not seem to like double superscripts of the type
$$ {\phi^k}^3 $$
I get an emergency stop when \LaTeX\ reaches this point in the text.
\end{document}
MLO@cmssun2 14 $ latex foo
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3)
(foo.tex
LaTeX2e <1998/12/01> patch level 1
Babel <v3.6x> and hyphenation patterns for american, italian, nohyphenation, lo
aded.
(/opt/teTeX/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 1999/01/07 v1.4a Standard LaTeX document class
(/opt/teTeX/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (foo.aux) [1] (foo.aux) )
Output written on foo.dvi (1 page, 600 bytes).
Transcript written on foo.log.
MLO@cmssun2 15 $
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Uli Marschall
whats about $\phi^{k^3}$
uli
"Moni Islam (Imperial College)" wrote:
> LaTeX does not seem to like double superscripts of the type
> {\phi^k}^3. I get an emergency stop when LaTeX reaches this point in
> the text.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to get around this problem? Many thanks.
>
> Moni Islam
Richard Carr
:Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 16:21:02 +0200
:From: Uli Marschall <u...@g4101u.unileoben.ac.at>
:Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
:Subject: Re: [Q] Double superscript
:
:hallo
:
:whats about $\phi^{k^3}$
:
:uli
:
:"Moni Islam (Imperial College)" wrote:
:
:> LaTeX does not seem to like double superscripts of the type
:> {\phi^k}^3. I get an emergency stop when LaTeX reaches this point in
:> the text.
Try \phi^k{}^3 or \phi^{k\,3} if you want the 3 and the k on the same
level or, if you want the 3 as superscript to the k (as opposed to the
\phi^k, use the suggestion above. Alternatively, in the former scenario,
you could use (\phi^k)^3.
:>
:> Can anyone tell me how to get around this problem? Many thanks.
:>
:> Moni Islam
:
:
:
Sven Bauer
An apology first: I have only got one posting in this thread - it
seems there are some problems with the news-server here. Sorry if
somebody has already written someting like this.
> :> LaTeX does not seem to like double superscripts of the type
> :> {\phi^k}^3. I get an emergency stop when LaTeX reaches this point in
> :> the text.
The following runs through LaTeX without problems:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
${\phi^k}^3$
\end{document}
I suspect the problem is not caused by the double-subscript.
SB