On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Patrick H. Lauke wrote: >> What is a superscript letter/number is part of a name? > > Then HTML would be insufficiently specific to mark it up, and another > language (or an additional, optional module) should be used instead. Maybe, maybe not. If the superscript can be expressed using superscript characters (e.g., SUPERSCRIPT LATIN SMALL LETTER N U+207F), then the superscripting _can_ be expressed in plain text and hence also in HTML. Whether it would be wise or recommendable to do so is a different matter. Thus, there are _three_ ways to deal with superscripts and subscripts: 1) use markup that means superscripting or subscripting 2) use a style sheet (e.g., setting vertical-align and font-size); this naturally requires some markup that makes the piece of text an element 3) use a superscript or subscript character (directly or using a a character or entity reference), when applicable -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/Received on Friday, 25 August 2006 07:13:41 GMT
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