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Originally Posted by pluma
I just found out that "alt+6+numbers" works in the system:
¹a²b³c⁴d⁵e⁶
But I can't find the letters. So the font is installed already. I'd love to be able to do this with letters.
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What is your use case though?
Are you trying to use these characters as footnotes? Or in Maths equations? Or what?
Side Note: Most fonts don't even have the Unicode superscript numbers, let alone the superscript letters. Plus the letters are split across many blocks... because their use case is mostly for highly specialized Linguistics [IPA/UPA], NOT everyday typing.
Side Note #2: Another thing to look out for (besides the superscript characters missing in most fonts) is completely crap kerning/placement. So you can get really atrocious looking things like:
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Sample example.¹⁰
Sample example.<sup>10</sup>
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Originally Posted by Toxaris
If this is the effect you want, use the <sup> tag. Much better supported that full unocode fonts.
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Yep. If you just want the normal super/subscript, definitely just use the
<sup> +
<sub> instead. Then you could insert whatever numbers/letters/symbols you want and have it look consistent. Plus that method would work across all devices/fonts/programs.
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Originally Posted by pluma
Specially with UTF-8 which it could take advantage of the many features it got.
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Just because it is in UTF-8 doesn't mean that would be the most reliable way to represent it in your book. Many of the characters are just in there for backwards compatibility with older documents, or when dealing with purely Plain Text documents.
Also, sometimes things are better left to the rendering engine + OpenType fonts to handle... for example, ligatures are best left out of source material and would be substituted on-the-fly: fi (fi) + ff (ff) + fl (fl) + ae (æ) + [...].
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Originally Posted by pluma
Unbelivable!! That's not a practical format for humans to express in written form!! I think that's a step backwards from Egyptian hieroglyphics. C'mon in 2016, with an advanced staged of technology and have to write with that I think is plain retarded, undoing centuries of evolution. Whover came up with that standard should be fired for causing brain damage and waste of CPU cycles.
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Do you have a better representation of Maths?
The purpose of MathML was to create something that is easily parsable (XML) + easily passable between programs (you can Copy/Paste/Import/Export equations) + ties semantic information into equations (VERY important for things like Text-to-Speech).
I admit, it isn't really the easiest thing to read/type out by hand... but NO complicated Math is.
But as Doitsu pointed out, there are many tools to help create equations then export to MathML. If you already have a completed source document, there are plenty of tools out there to help you.