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I have a letter with subscript:

\alpha_{3r}

But the subscript is not suitable:

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I wish to have a style as:

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in which the position of 1r is lower than before case, moreover the size of r is not smaller than 1. I think this format is so better the previous default case. Is there any way to reach the goal?

Mico
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    You can lower the subscript by using \alpha^{}_{1r}, but I'd not make 1 smaller: in normal size it is higher than r. – egreg Dec 14 '21 at 16:04
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    note that the drop of the subscript depends on the font and is different in display math and inline math, you have only provided a fragment so hard to say exactly what to change – David Carlisle Dec 14 '21 at 16:09
  • Why do you want r to be as tall as 1? – Mico Dec 14 '21 at 16:46

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A neat trick would be to use the package relsize. Then you can try

$$\alpha_{1\mathlarger{r}}$$
Harshith Chunduri
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I advise against doing either of these, but depending on whether you want the 1 to shrink to the size of the r or want the r to grow to the size of the 1, you could use scalerel as in the following code:

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{scalerel}


\begin{document}


$\alpha_{1\scalerel{r}{1}}\quad\alpha_{\scalerel{1}{r}r}$


\end{document}
Sandy G
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