Stefan, thanks for the clarification, and you're right. In the
situation you describe, the radical symbol does indeed extend farther
if the denominator has a descender than it does if the denominator
does not have a descender. Same is true with MathType. Same is true
with LaTeX. Same is true with Word 2007's OMML Equation Editor (aka
"the new one"). In fact, it needs to. The expression would look pretty
goofy otherwise.
Here's a document showing examples of all the situations we've
discussed in this thread. I've added dotted horizontal lines to make
it easy to compare the height of the radicals with other radicals in
the same expression...
In DOCX format:
http://afwings.net/radical-with-descender.docx
In PDF format (same document):
http://afwings.net/radical-with-descender.pdf
I think there's room for improvement in each of the examples. Notice
that even in the LaTeX example, the last radical (the one multiplied
by "d") extends too far above the numerator.
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On 5-Mar-2008, "Stefan Blom" wrote:
Sorry for not being clear. The test (which was actually the
opposite of the one that Jay was talking about in his post) was
performed in Word 2007 with the old Equation Editor. What I
found was this:
If the denominator in a fraction inside a square root has a letter
with a descender, such as p, the old Equation Editor will make
the square root bigger, thus making two square roots different
in size. For example, this happens with an expression such as
sqrt(a/p) + sqrt(a/b).
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Stefan Blom
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