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Old 02-05-2018, 01:31 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
When I want to dispense with the superscript numbers, I enclose it in '«' and '»'. [...] The guillemets work for me on English texts, but they would look a bit weird in languages that use them to mark dialogue, such as French - who said '14 (quatorze)'.
Probably not the best solution because of kerning. Depending on the program/renderer/font, extra space may get added around guillemets.

Or text-to-speech may handle quotation mark characters differently from parenthesis/brackets.

Line-breaking may also be handled slightly differently.

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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump View Post
I have also seen a few ebooks (from a free website, but can't remember whose) which enclose the link in "less-than / greater-than" signs: < >.

I have not decided if this is brilliance or lunacy.
Yuck!

I can imagine the text-to-speech now:

<1> = "Less than 1 more than"
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