Re: [O] Exponents / subscripts

[Rasmus]

Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> writes:

> Rasmus <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Fabrice Popineau <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> Given that it is only a matter of presentation, does that mean it could be
>>>> changed ?
>>>> If yes, I can try to give it a shot.
>>>
>>> If you mean that a^bc should be equivalent to a^{b}c, then I think it is
>>> superior in its current state.
>>
>> As I understand Fabrice's mail, it's only about display of scripts in
>> Org buffers (when org-pretty-entities-include-sub-superscripts is
>> non-nil).  So rather than displaying
>>
>> (+)   \(a^nb^n\)
>>
>> as
>>
>>       \(aⁿᵇⁿ\)
>>
>> it would be displayed as
>>
>> (*)   \(aⁿbⁿ\)
>>
>> Of course, it /only/ makes sense to change how it is displayed in
>> math-mode, for which (*) is the more accurate depiction of (+).
>
> If we're talking about math mode, then I think no overlay should be
> added on them, and let `org-toggle-inline-images' display them
> correctly. IOW, \(a^nb^n\) should be displayed as \(a^nb^n\).
>
> It is, IMO, a bug in the current fontification, in which sub/superscript
> handling leaks over math snippets.

I disagree.

org-toggle-inline-images and fontification of *scripts is are
complements at best.

org-toggle-inline-images is slow and inconvenient for anything but
finished documents.  Had preview-latex supported Org I'd maybe agree,
but I disagree strongly at this time.

sub/superscript works well with entities and makes it very easy to
edit math and get approximate live feedback.

IOW and IMO, the "bug", if any, is the fontification of superscript in
math.

—Rasmus

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