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Re: Why are super and sub grayed out?

From: Cay Horstmann <cay@horstmann.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:48:02 -0800
Message-ID: <47A88532.6020006@horstmann.com>
To: Laurent Carcone <carcone@w3.org>, www-amaya@w3.org

I am very sorry--it was my problem. This was inside <pre> blocks. I just 
checked the DTD and am surprised to find out that you cannot use 
super/subscripts inside them.

Thanks,

Cay

Laurent Carcone wrote:
> 
> It's weird, we tested on several Strict documents and these items are 
> available (they are normally grayed out for Basic documents).
> Can you send us your document ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Laurent Carcone
> 
> 
> 
> Cay Horstmann wrote:
>> I just downloaded the Amaya 10 pre-release, but I have a problem with
>> super and sub. They used to work (as they should) in my XHTML 1.0 Strict
>> documents, but now the Insert -> Character element -> Subscript (sub)
>> and Superscript (super) menu items are grayed out.
>>
>> That is a problem for me. These have some semantic meaning, and I don't
>> feel that using a CSS style is a reasonable replacement. Using MathML is
>> also not an option for me. Is there any remedy?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Cay
>>
>>   
> 
> 
> 


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