Re: HTML's SUP

> On 27 May 2017, at 5:01 pm, Tim Hill <tim@timil.com> wrote:
>
> In article <5642c25e44chris@chris-johnson.org.uk>, cj
> <chris@chris-johnson.org.uk> wrote:
>> In article <A8BCDC15-DF7C-4389-AAA8-10595035D4CE@powys.org>, Tim
>> Powys-Lybbe <tim@powys.org> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>
>>> I've just found that the SUP HTML command does not superimpose in
>>> Netsurf 3.3, so I got the latest versio, 3.6, nor in that, finally I
>>> read the advice and got last night's 4088 build and it still didn't,
>>> so I wonder if this is something that I have not read about. Is
>>> <SUP> not a recognised modern feature?
>
>> I have a feeling that SUP (and SUB) have never been implemented. I had
>> a lot of trouble when making chemistry related web pages years ago.
>
> I find that both <sup> and a defined CSS class ("super") both render
> superscripts correctly in 3.7 #4085.
>
> www.timil.com/temp/superscript.htm


Ah, that suggests that SUP works correctly within CSS but not within old-fashioned simple HTML, which is what I use.

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