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| {{{^^superscript^^}}} and {{{,,subscript,,}}} have been added to [[Creole Additions]]. |
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| Creole: {{{ ^^This is superscripted text^^ }}} |
| Creole: {{{ ^^This is superscripted text^^ }}} \\ |
| //or// {{{ <<sup>>This is superscripted text<</sup>> }}} |
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| Creole: {{{ ~~This is subscripted text~~ }}} or {{{ ,,This is subscripted text,, }}} |
| Creole: {{{ ~~This is subscripted text~~ }}} \\ |
| //or// {{{ ,,This is subscripted text,, }}} \\ |
| //or// {{{ <<sub>>This is superscripted text<</sub>> }}} |
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| Note: the use of double-tilde may conflict with [[Escape Character Proposal]] |
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| ** Many indexed terms in science (like n^^+^^) |
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| ** Much of biology (gene names, etc.) |
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| than as part of formulas. |
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| * Basic functions in most word processors |
| * Semantic value |
| * Super- and subscript are basic functions in most word processors |
| * Super- and subscript almost always have a semantic value, rather than being a formatting issue. |
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| * Unicode digits are limited to... digits! |
| * Inline with [Cover the common things people need|Goals] (is it?) |
| * NotNew, a lot of wiki engines offer markup for superscript and subscript text. HTML offers it. |
| * The presentation of successive Unicode digits is not always nice (see above or this source). |
| * Unicode digits: |
| ** are limited to... digits! - thus covering only a small subset of use cases (⁽⁻ⁱ⁺ⁿ⁾⁼°ₔ₍ₐ₊ₑ₋ₓ₎₌ₒ) |
| ** The presentation of successive Unicode digits is not always appropriate (see above of this source). |
| * MathML etc. is necessary for specialized applications, especially in Math. However: |
| ** Complex formulas were historically expensive, and use in engineering and science therefore limited. Invention of symbols involving the no-cost super and subscript was much more frequent. |
| ** In practive, MathML etc. is not currently supported, and does not correspond with the frequency of use of super- and subscript in engineering and science. LaTeX is, on the other hand, more common and known to many publishing in physics, engineering, or math (but few inther sciences). |
| * LaTeX is rendered very poorly in browsers which do not have built-in support for MathML, typically with coarse raster images, and font, size and aliasing mismatch. |
| * Inline with [Cover the common things people need|Goals] (is it?) - Yes! |
| * NotNew, a lot of wiki engines offer markup for superscript and subscript text. HTML offers it. But uses different markup. |
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| * [Better] alternatives exist |
| * New markups to learn, NotNew though. |
| * Markup characters can be hard to find on several keyboard layouts |
| * Better alternatives exist |
| ** Please elaborate which alternatives are available in which Wiki software |
| ** Wiki engines supporting LaTeX includes: [[MoinMoin]], [[Oddmuse]], [[MediaWiki]], ... (add more) |
| ** Wiki engines supporting image inclusion: practically all |
| ** Wiki engines supporting simple ways to insert unicode characters/images (smileys): [[MoinMoin]], [[Oddmuse]], ... (add more) |
| ** New markups to learn -- NotNew though. |
| * Users who already use the standard markups have to learn a yet another one. |
| * Markup characters can be hard to find on several keyboard layouts. |
| * The markup is hardly readable. |
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