10.10.2: Mathematical text

10.10.2.1: Subscripts

draw title "$a_2$"

For multiple-character subscripts, insert braces before and after the item to be subscripted:

draw title "$a_{22}$"

10.10.2.2: Superscripts

draw title "$a^2$"

For multiple-character superscripts, insert braces before and after the item to be superscripted:

draw title "$a^{22}$"

10.10.2.3: Mathematical symbols

\Delta \Downarrow \Gamma \Im \Lambda \Leftarrow \Leftrightarrow \Omega \Pi \Phi \Psi \Re \Rightarrow \Sigma \Theta \Uparrow \Upsilon \Xi \alpha \approx \ast \beta \bullet \chi \circ \cong \delta \div \downarrow \epsilon \equiv \eta \exists \forall \gamma \geq \gg \in \infty \iota \kappa \lambda \langle \leftarrow \leftrightarrow \leq \ll \mu \nabla \neq \nu \omega \partial \phi \pi \pm \prod \propto \psi \rangle \rho \rightarrow \sigma \sim \subset \subseteq \sum \supset \supseteq \surd \sqrt \tau \theta \times \uparrow \upsilon \varpi \wedge \xi \zeta \vartheta \varsigma \varphi \aleph \oplus \otimes \wp \prime \emptyset \angle \neg \clubsuit \diamondsuit \spadesuit \cdot \lfloor \lceil \rceil \rfloor

Click here to see the symbols and their names. For example, you might use these as follows:

draw title "$\alpha$ = thermal expansion coefficient"

Sometimes you'll want a mathematical symbol to be adjacent to a normal text string, with no space between. You can do this by enclosing in braces, as in LaTeX.

TeX and LaTeX handle combinations of superscripts and subscripts very cleanly, putting one above the other. Presently, Gri does not do this; for example `set x name "$A_1^2$"' will have the 2 appearing to the right of the 1 instead of above it. Proper positioning will be added to a later version of Gri, but in the meantime you can achieve the desired effect with the TeX ``negative thinspace'' psuedo-character in math-mode. Using this feature will not hurt you when the new Gri becomes available. The symbol for a negative thinspace is `\!' in math-mode. It has no meaning in nonmath mode. A thinspace is 1/6 of an ``em-space'' (a TeX term, normally equal to the width of the character ``M'' in the current font). In most fonts, numbers are half the width of the letter ``M'', so that 3 negative thinspaces will move leftward over a single number. Thus, if the example above becomes `set x name "$A_1\!\!\!^2"', the 2 will be positioned above the 1. (Equivalently, you could write `set x name "$A^2\!\!_1$"'.) Depending on the actual characters you have in the super/subscripts, you might need more or less thinspaces; some experimentation might be required. Also, note that the symbol `\,' in math mode is a positive thinspace (which moves the next character a little bit to the right). Thus, you can add a little extra spaces between characters by doing something like `set x name "A$\,$B"'.

To get a hat over a single character, do something like the following (which draws a hat over the character "h"):

draw label "h${\!\!\!^{^\wedge}}$" at 10 12 cm

To get an overbar on a rho, do this:

draw label "$\rho\!\!\!\!^-$" at 3 3 cm