[OS X TeX] \operatorname or \mathrm in multi-letter subscript labels

[Victor Ivrii]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
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> On Jun 16, 2011, at 8:06 AM, Art Werschulz wrote:
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>> Hi.
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>> On Jun 15, 2011, at 10:13 PM, Victor Ivrii wrote:
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>>>>> However not sure why you chose to use \operatorname .
>>>>> It is sufficient to use \mathrm or \text
>>>> Somehow I got into the habit of doing that a very long time ago.  Maybe this was in Spivak's "Joy of TeX"; I don't remember.
>>>
>>> \operatorname provides some extra spacing which does not seem suitable
>>> for labels
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>> Compare $c_{\operatorname{in-out}}$ with $c_{\mathrm{in-out}}$.  The first gives a hyphen, the second gives what appears to be a minus sign.
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> Howdy,
>
> That is a minus sign since you are still in math mode. Assuming you're using the amsmath package try $c_{\text{in-out}}$.

or $c_{\textrm{in-out}}$
or $c_{\textsf{in-out}}$
(which I prefer)

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