Text Formatting ⇒ lowering a character in a section heading.

[AliceWonder]

TeXLive 2013 as distributed from TUG running in Fedora 18 x86_64.

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\newcommand{\nix}{\textsc{Un\raisebox{-0.3\height}{*}x}}

works in paragraph mode, it puts the * at the correct height relative to the small caps N and X (at least with the font I am using).

However if I then use the \nix{} command in a \section{} command it fails. What is the proper way to accomplish what I want to accomplish so it is not restricted to paragraphs?

[cgnieder]

Most of all your macro throws an error when used in a \section:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\newcommand{\nix}{\textsc{Un\raisebox{-0.3\height}{*}x}}
\begin{document}

\nix

\section{\nix}

\end{document}

gives

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! Argument of \@sect has an extra }.
<inserted text> 
                \par 
l.8 \section{\nix}
                  
Runaway argument?
{\normalfont \Large \bfseries }{\@rsbox {-0.3\height }}\def \reserved@b \ETC.
! Paragraph ended before \@sect was complete.
<to be read again> 
                   \par 
l.8 \section{\nix}

Here is an alternative solution:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

% only so we can test the different font variants that `lmodern' does not
% have:
\usepackage{libertine}

\newcommand{\nix}{\textsc{Un\lower.6ex\hbox{*}x}}

% a command for testing:
\newcommand\test[1]{%
  \begingroup
  #1 \tiny \nix
  \footnotesize\nix
  \small\nix
  \normalsize\nix
  \large\nix
  \Large\nix
  \LARGE\nix
  \huge\nix
  \Huge\nix
  \endgroup
}

\begin{document}

\nix

\section{\nix}

\test{}

\noindent\test{\bfseries}

\noindent\test{\itshape}

\noindent\test{\itshape\bfseries}

\noindent\test{\sffamily}

\noindent\test{\sffamily\bfseries}

\noindent\test{\sffamily\itshape\bfseries}


\end{document}

Regards

[AliceWonder]

Thank you! That works very well.