Support for <(sub|sup)> (Was: [this] as a synonym for [this][])

Joseph Lorenzo Hall joehall at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 19:30:05 EDT 2005


On Apr 4, 2005 4:07 PM, Jelks Cabaniss <jelks at jelks.nu> wrote:
> David P Henderson wrote:
> >       Ba^2+^ + OH^-^
> > ...
> >
> > I realize that the first form is used for emphasis, but the second
> > form for <sup> would work and is fairly clear in its meaning.
> 
> ... and is very Markdown-like.  I like it.

We might have the LaTeX-esque problem where if you want more than one
character in a `<sup>` you'd have to write:

    C^1^2

instead of:

    C^12

or:

    C^{12}

Joe


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