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Originally Posted by Jellby
The bracket suggestion is instead of superscripting, and it's also common in plain-text contexts. In any case, adding brackets should not change at all the line spacing, if the brackets have the same size/position/etc. as the number. From the point of view of the line spacing, it doesn't matter which characters you have, they're just boxes with something drawn inside (or sometimes outside). What could happen is that a bracket clashes with the line above/below where another character wouldn't, but this shouldn't be the case in normal circumstances.
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IMHO, Brackets work well. Even reading on my Oasis/Voyage/whatever it is, at font size 7, superscripts are a bear to tap. Worse on my Samsung Note 9 phone, which is hardly small for a phone.
Brackets, right inline[1] are much, much easier to tap. I've even sometimes used a background gray shade, over the 3-4-5 chars
[123] (assume a gray-shaded background there) to show the reader where to tap. I think it's vastly superior to superscripts and i was an adamant supporter of superscripts for a long time. No longer. Ease of use and effectiveness is my motto these days.
Hitch