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::::'''Disagree.''' These topics are actually distinct, and few English speakers would look for Superior letter when they are thinking about a superscript or a subscript. --[[User:Dthomsen8|DThomsen8]] ([[User talk:Dthomsen8|talk]]) 18:48, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
There is a stark contradiction between the [[Superior letter]] article and this article. [[Superior letter]] says ''The style is distinct from superscript'', whereas here it says ''In typesetting, such types ''[i.e. super/subscript]'' are traditionally called superior and inferior letters, figures, etc., or just superiors and inferiors'' and then it goes on to say ''Superior and inferior figures on the baseline ''[what is a superior figure on the baseline?]'' are used for fractions and most other purposes, while lowered inferior figures are needed for chemical and mathematical subscripts'' which isn't at all compatible with the use of "superior" in the corresponding article that restricts the term to word abbreviations. I don't care either way, but there should be a minimum of consistency across articles, and if there are conflicting nomenclatures this should be made explicit. Typographically I think there is something to the view that superscript and superior are in fact distinct features, e.g. superscripts can contain anything, extend beyond the top of the line, have superscripts themselves etc. --[[Special:Contributions/88.73.31.231|88.73.31.231]] ([[User talk:88.73.31.231|talk]]) 17:28, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
== Other Script Positions ==
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