You can now use subscript / superscript buttons on PTC Community

[DJNewman]

Use these buttons on PTC Community for convenient referencing of _subscripts and ^superscripts in your discussions!

(Not to be confused with in-product Mathcad Prime's long-existing subscript and superscript buttons, which are readily available in  the ribbon with Text Formatting > Text Font; or with the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl - or Ctrl =, though in-product we say the latter is Ctrl +, implying Ctrl Shift =.  ...But that won't work.
Or if you're doing math and not text, use ^ for exponentiation or selected from Math > Operators > Algebra for superscript; and Math > Style > Subscript for subscript notation, or Ctrl -.
...Not to be confused with Matrix Indexing. Which looks like a subscript. But it's not.)

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I was gonna make this a Mathcad Tip, but it turns out that the toolbar there is actually different than the toolbar everywhere else, and that was way too ironic for me to do.

[Werner_E]

Thanks!

Nonetheless L^AT_EX support (at least a decent subset) would be nice in a forum dealing with a math software 😉

[Werner_E]

@DJNewman 

@AndrewK 

A small error seems to have crept in by implementing super-/subscripts.
The buttons are only displayed in the toolbar when you create a new post, but not when you edit your post later!

New reply, all OK:

Edit reply, the buttons are missing:

EDIT: I have also noticed that super-/subscripting is not available for Personal Messages either.
It wouldn't hurt to enable them there too ... 😉

[StuartBruff]

Well spotted, Werner.

I wonder if this is a recent manifestation or whether my recollections of using them when editing a post are faulty.  I'd be far more surprised by the former than the latter ...

Stuart

[Werner_E]

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@StuartBruff wrote:

Well spotted, Werner.

I wonder if this is a recent manifestation or whether my recollections of using them when editing a post are faulty.  I'd be far more surprised by the former than the latter ...

Stuart

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I am unable to tell if these buttons ever where available in an "Edit Reply..." window  as I had not used super-/subscripts a lot so far.
Actually I didn't even remember that they used to have buttons on their own and was looking today for them in "Size" and other unusual places when I edited a post of mine and thought a subscript would be handy. Because I knew that I already had used super-/subscripts (about two weeks ago, too long for me to remember details), my first thought was "they turned it off for some reason" but then I saw you mentioning the ability to use subscripts in another thread and so I started investigating 😉

[StuartBruff]

It's a good job you did investigate. I tend not to edit too much, and I probably wouldn't have used the sub/superscript buttons during an edit, either. 

Stuart

[AndrewK]

Good catch I'll have it added. Thanks!

[AndrewK]

Hello, we've now added the options when editing as well. Thanks for pointing that out!

I will have it added to private messages. Lesson learned, in the future when I'm asking for changes to the editors, I need to specify every location up front 😀