Re: sub and superscripts

From: Samuel Thibault (samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org)
Date: Fri Jul 01 2005 - 13:24:32 CDT

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    Peter Constable, le Fri 01 Jul 2005 11:12:24 -0700, a écrit :
    > > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf
    > > Of Gregg Reynolds
    >
    >
    > > For programming language design it would be nice to have the entire
    > > Latin (ascii) and Greek repertoire available as subscript and
    > > superscript characters. So for example, using ^ to indicate superscript
    > > and _ to indicate subscript,
    > >
    > > i^foobar = i to the foobar power
    > > i_foobar = index foobar places into the array i
    >
    > So, you expect lots of programmers to have to have input methods that support a large set of sub-script characters for something as common as array indices? So, instead of MyArray[i] one would use MyArrayᵢ?

    This sort of printing could be done by the editor itself, just like
    emacs prints \section{foo} bigger for TeX files for instance.

    Regards,
    Samuel

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