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Inkscape: how to attach superscript and subscript to the same character

I want to add both superscript and subscript to the same character in the Inkscape text object. Currently, I have this: enter image description here

but I want apostrophe (') and 0 to be aligned vertically so that x has (') as superscript and 0 as subscript.

Solution

  • You can use negative horizontal kerning on your zero indices. Look at the red framed field in the upper right.

    Screenshot from Inkscape

    The SVG for the text element will look like this:

    <text
   xml:space="preserve"
   style="font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:10.584px;line-height:1.25;font-family:sans-serif;letter-spacing:0px;word-spacing:0px;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;stroke-width:0.2646"
   x="29.4"
   y="29.48"
   id="text3715"><tspan
     sodipodi:role="line"
     id="tspan3713"
     x="29.4"
     y="29.48"
     style="stroke-width:0.2646"
     dx="0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 3.5">(x'<tspan
style="font-size:65%;baseline-shift:sub"
id="tspan3717"
dx="-3.5">0</tspan>,y'<tspan
style="font-size:65%;baseline-shift:sub"
id="tspan3719"
dx="-3.5">0</tspan>)</tspan></text>

    Note the dx="-3.5" attributes.