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!!Superscript
==Proposed markups==
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===Superscript===
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!!Subscript
===Subscript===
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Creole: {{{ ~~This is subscripted text~~ }}}
Creole: {{{ ~~This is subscripted text~~ }}} or {{{ ,,This is subscripted text,, }}}
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==Rationale==
===Use cases===
* Superscript
** Basic maths
** Units of measurement (e.g. square meter - m²)
** Large numbers, metric scientific notation (e.g. 1,253x10²³)
** Ordinal numbers (e.g. 1^^st^^, 2^^nd^^, 18^^th^^ century, in French 1^^er^^, 2^^e^^, 18^^e^^ siècle)
** Possibly for footnotes (shouldn't it be handled by another mechanism than what is considered, in that particular case, as a presentation markup)
* Subscript
** Basic maths
** Basic chemistry
===Alternatives===
* Unicode digits
* Specialized markup languages like MathML, ChemML and LaTeX
===Advantages===
* Simple way to insert superscripted/subscripted text
* The users don't have to learn a new language.
* Basic functions in most word processors
* Semantic value
* Depending on the software/keyboard layout, it might be very difficult or impossible to insert Unicode superscript or subscript digits.
* 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).
===Disadvantages===
* [Better] alternatives exist
* New markups to learn, NotNew though.
* Markup characters can be hard to find on several keyboard layouts
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15 18-Oct-2007 16:14 3.837 kB YvesPiguet to previous Precision
14 17-Oct-2007 15:18 3.78 kB ChuckSmith to previous | to last Added to Creole Additions
13 26-Sep-2007 12:34 3.727 kB ChuckSmith to previous | to last restore
12 26-Sep-2007 05:44 3.857 kB 203.69.39.251 to previous | to last
11 26-Sep-2007 02:07 3.778 kB 218.58.136.4 to previous | to last
10 28-Feb-2007 21:23 3.727 kB YvesPiguet to previous | to last LaTeX is rendered poorly in many browsers
9 26-Feb-2007 18:39 3.56 kB 77.128.31.184 to previous | to last
8 26-Feb-2007 03:10 3.533 kB 85.221.141.46 to previous | to last added disadvantgaes, listed some wikis with LaTeX support
7 25-Feb-2007 21:17 2.976 kB 77.128.12.229 to previous | to last
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3 25-Feb-2007 21:11 2.764 kB 77.128.12.229 to previous | to last
2 30-Jan-2007 08:48 1.956 kB Eric Chartre to previous | to last Refactoring of the discussion into a proposal
1 22-Jan-2007 19:20 0.506 kB RadomirDopieralski to last moved from Elements
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