Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Superscripts and subscripts: Difference between revisions

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If this page to be used, it should itself be made MOS-compliant with regards to the accessibility guidelines, namely [[WP:COLOR]] - the "correctness" of some of the examples is indicated by colour alone, and note that coloured text should really only be used if there's a pressing reason to do so. [[User:Knepflerle|Knepflerle]] ([[User talk:Knepflerle|talk]]) 16:35, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

:If you were refering to the comparison in the lead, it's now fixed. [[User:Jonkerz|jonkerz]][[User talk:Jonkerz|♠]] 09:45, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

== Apply to article title? ==

Do these guidelines apply to article titles? Could it explain why (or why not)? Thank you. Regards, [[User:RJHall|RJH]] ([[User_talk:RJHall|''talk'']]) 21:30, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

:Done use the characters like "²" in the title, but don't use <nowiki></nowiki> tags either, instead use <nowiki>{{DISPALYTITLE:}}</nowiki> to make it look right. [[User:Graeme Bartlett|Graeme Bartlett]] ([[User talk:Graeme Bartlett|talk]]) 11:28, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

== Lost semantic integrity ==

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::::::::Only you are disputing it. Both methods are equally valid and equally correct. &#32;<span style="font-variant:small-caps; whitespace:nowrap;">[[User:Headbomb|Headbomb]] {[[User talk:Headbomb|t]] · [[Special:Contributions/Headbomb|c]] · [[WP:PHYS|p]] · [[WP:WBOOKS|b]]}</span> 23:54, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

== Different guidance for non-HTML rendering ==

Kys

Whilst Wikipedia only provides HTML rendering, in some cases that will be subject to further reduction to plain ASCII. Examples include: screen readers, web crawlers, and some mailing lists.

Where a client can be identified as preferring "plain text", sending “10&lt;sup>30&lt;/sup>” produces a ''deeply'' unsatisfactory end result like “1030”.

''Please'' can we recommend, in this specific case, using either Unicode superscript and subscript digits with fraction-slash,<ref>(superscripts U+2070, U+00b9, U+00b2, U+00b3, U+2074 thru U+2079; subscripts U+2080 thru U+2089; fraction-slash U+2044)</ref> or insert circumflex/caret “^” symbols for exponents and solidus “/” for fractions. [[User:Martin Kealey|Martin Kealey]] ([[User talk:Martin Kealey|talk]]) 07:46, 5 August 2025 (UTC)