Re: Super and Subscripts
Maurizio Codogno (mau@beatles.cselt.stet.it)
Fri, 20 Jan 95 09:51:19 EST
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% 2n
% while <math>{e^2^}^n^</math> is e and again not what you want.
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% I felt that people could easily learn to use _ and ^ as shortrefs for
% subscripts and superscripts. Learning a further two characters to
% distinguish opening from closing tags is much harder, particularly,
% given the less than obvious choices available.
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% With the BOX element, the problem doesn't arise, as the { and } chars
% are obvious candidates. Note: { and } are used when you
% need curly braces in your expressions.
this is suspiciously nearer to TeX ... While I agree that it's the best
choice to write maths, do we want to add support for all these things?
.mau.