Re: real subscripts and superscripts?

[Dumas Patrice]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 07:08:48PM +0100, Dumas Patrice wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:07:04PM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
> >     Maybe I would favor using x^{2}y in textual context too, since there is
> >     no good solution, and it is simpler to implement and explain ...
> > 
> > Ok by me.  Doing the simple way (always add braces) first seems
> > reasonable; if it turns out that the feature gets used enough and people
> > really don't like it, the output can always be tweaked later.
> > 
> > I can add these to texinfo.tex and texinfo.texi, etc., easily enough.
> > Do you have time to add it to makeinfo?
> 
> Yes.  For HTML cross manual I propose doing the same as for "style"
> commands and key and kbd, that is replace by the content.

Also in raw text, I propose using content as is without any formatting
(used for instance for file names, for index sorting).

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Pat