Marius Hofert wrote: > Haha, I found a hack (using the letter "l"): > > plot(0,0,main=expression(italic(X)[1]^bolditalic("l"))) Why cheat when you can use a *real* prime character: plot(0, 0, main=expression(paste(italic(X)[1],"\u2032"))) -- Karl Ove Hufthammer