Microsoft KB Archive/28529

Word: Superscript/Subscript Formula Command Options AI and DI PSS ID Number: Q28529 Article last modified on 08-08-1993 PSS database name: M_WorD

3.00 3.01 3.02

MACINTOSH

Summary:

The Help file for Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, versions 3.0, 3.01, and 3.02, lists the options AIn and DIn, where “n” is a number (of points), for use with the S (subscript and superscript) Formula command. The Help file describes these functions in the following manner:

AI means “ascender increment.” The signed number is added to the ascender (portion above the baseline) of the argument. DI is the descender increment. These arguments can be used to modify the height of the “bounding box” of the argument.

This explanation is correct except when using negative arguments. Presumably, the line spacing before or after the line containing the formula will decrease with a negative argument; in fact, however, this space greatly increases.

Additional reference words: mswdformula 3.00

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1993.