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February 21, 2025
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Plus sign as Subscript

  • February 21, 2025
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How do you have the plus sign "+" be a subscript? Every time I try to subscript the plus sign, it just becomes an operator. But I want it to be part of the subscript.

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DJNewman
DJNewman18-Opal
18-Opal
February 21, 2025

In math regions: Use ^

In text regions: Press = while holding down the ctrl key

PTC Marketer for Creo and Mathcad. I run their YouTube channels, some Creo campaigns, and all Mathcad campaigns and communications.
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PS_129207731-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
February 21, 2025

using ^ causes it to be a superscript. I essentially use want to use the + as a symbol and not an operator

DJNewman
DJNewman18-Opal
18-Opal
February 21, 2025

Ooooh I misread subscript as superscript because you kept talking about + and my mind associates those with superscripts.

 

 

Okay, so you want the + sign as a character, not as the math operator used for adding things. For example, like in a variable name, Variablevar+hello.

In that case.. you can't do that unless you do something goofy like use an alternate plus sign that isn't the + on your keyboard, like the ➕emoji, because that's just how variable naming rules are.

 

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PTC Marketer for Creo and Mathcad. I run their YouTube channels, some Creo campaigns, and all Mathcad campaigns and communications.
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    LucMeekes23-Emerald IV
    23-Emerald IV
    February 22, 2025

    Normally you can get (almost) character in a variable by first naming the variable as a string (so within double quotes) and you can use the ordinary + :

    LucMeekes_0-1740222030709.png

    Then you delete one quote (the other quote disappears with it):

    LucMeekes_1-1740222077263.png

    Then you can give it a value:

    LucMeekes_2-1740222122409.png

    and you can use it in an expression:

    LucMeekes_3-1740222153838.png

    However, this does not work with a (literal) subscript, because you cannot create a string with a subscript, and you cannot change existing parts of a variable name to subscript.

     

    It can be done with an index though, using the string trick as above, defining the index first as a separate variable that you then copy and paste to an index placeholder:

    LucMeekes_6-1740222692444.png

    But you have to realise that the index Index+addon is a separate value that Prime will want to have a numerical value.

     

    Success!
    Luc

     

     

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      ppal_25568718-Opal
      18-Opal
      February 23, 2025

      Eg: 

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      Type V

       

      CTRL  underscore to invoke subscript.

       

      USE ALT 197  (etc) for other subscripts

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        anursinghCommunity Manager
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        February 26, 2025

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