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Line 17: == 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) == Lost semantic integrity == I'm pretty surprised of this guideline: the [[semantic integrity]] of the super/subscript is lost to favour rendering hacks. The real meaning is lost by using <code><sup></code> or <code><sub></code>: when copy-pasting the example w{{sup\|i}}x{{sup\|2}}z{{sup\|(n + 6)}} <small>[<nowiki>w{{sup\|i}}x{{sup\|2}}z{{sup\|(n + 6)}}</nowiki>]</small> you end up with <code>wix2z(n + 6)</code> while the unicode wⁱx²z⁽ⁿ⁺⁶⁾ stays <code>wⁱx²z⁽ⁿ⁺⁶⁾</code>. Presentation shortcomings should be treated separately (by using a different font or by automatically enlarging/shifting sub/superscript to a more visible size, I don't know precisely, I'm no expert) Plus the wikitext is easier to edit in unicode. It's not 2010 anymore, unicode support is great everywhere!--[[User:Marc Lacoste\|Marc Lacoste]] ([[User talk:Marc Lacoste\|talk]]) 09:43, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

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