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Writing subscripts or superscripts in graph labels

prince0026 — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:43:28 GMT

How to write aubscripts and/or superscripts in graph labels? If anyone is having any idea, please help me out here !! This is really bugging since long.

Example: AB should be like AB

Thank You.

Re: Writing subscripts or superscripts in graph labels

wiebepo — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:04:40 GMT

There may be a work around available, depending on the letters&numbers needed in subscript/superscript. JMP is capable of displaying unicode characters. To display a specific unicode character, determine the code for it and then preceed it with "\!U". For example, water is H2O, but it would be best to display it with a subscript 2. Unicode for subscript 2 is "2082', so to get that effect, I can replace the 2 in H20 with "\!U2082". Here is an example:

newwindow("Water",panelbox("H\!U2082O"));

Consider modifying the fonts in preferences to one that includes unicode characters if the code displays a box instead of the desired subscript 2 symbol. Unfortunately, this solution does not work for all letters and numbers, since not all letters and numbers have a unicode subscript/superscript version.

Re: Writing subscripts or superscripts in graph labels

prince0026 — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:24:49 GMT

This is really strange. Did JMP developers not think about this? Other softwares (MATLAB, Origin, etc and even Excel) can let you do it pretty easily. I think JMP should provide easy fixes for this kind of trivial issues. Thanks anyway !! Probably have to think around it to address the issue some other way.

Re: Writing subscripts or superscripts in graph labels

honeysmaks — Mon, 13 May 2013 20:33:10 GMT

Try pressing "Ctrl -" to bring up placeholders for a subscript and a super script. You can then edit those positions to get your desired effect.

Re: Writing subscripts or superscripts in graph labels

mia_stephens — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 14:31:29 GMT

Here's a way to add superscripts to graph axes labels:

Set your font preference for AXIS to one that supports UNICODE (i.e. Arial Unicode MS). To do so, select File > Preferences, click on Fonts in the panel on the left, and then select Axis from the options that are displayed. You can pick any UNICODE font.
Run an analysis in the usual way.
Edit one of the resulting labels and place your cursor where you want a subscript or superscript.
While holding down the ALT-key on your keyboard, type the UNICODE associated with the desired superscript or subscript. For example, type 0179 while holding the ALT-key to get a superscript 3. The information on this particular code was obtained from: Unicode Character 'SUPERSCRIPT THREE' (U+00B3)

You can search for additional codes at: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/search.htm

Re: Writing subscripts or superscripts in graph labels

jim_guenter — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 14:07:46 GMT

What? For me this does nothing. Neither does Ctrl+ or CtrlShift- or CtrlShift+. Is there really a way to make this work?

Re: Writing subscripts or superscripts in graph labels

ezorlo — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 12:06:56 GMT

I agree this should be a basic feature and should support the simple keyboard shortcuts we are familiar with like ctrl+ for superscript

Re: Writing subscripts or superscripts in graph labels

MachineCapybara — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 07:37:32 GMT

For anyone stumbling across this post, after a back a back and forth with the JMP services, the issue still has not been solved as of JMP 16 (10 years after this post was opened).

There is also apparently no current plan by the dev team to implement the functionality....

Maybe next decade?

Re: Writing subscripts or superscripts in graph labels

SamGardner — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 14:54:11 GMT

@MachineCapybara we hear your frustration. As one of the product managers for JMP, I encourage you to go to the JMP Wish List on the User Community and enter this as a new feature request. We are addressing new feature requests that come through the Wish List in a more consistent and systematic way going forward, and I promise it will be considered and addressed in a reasonable time frame.