Why incomplete subscript/superscript alphabet ?

Steve Swales steve at swales.us
Fri Sep 30 13:36:32 CDT 2016


I’m with Michael on this. The obvious use case is text messaging, which has no higher protocols to leverage.

-steve

> On Sep 30, 2016, at 11:26 AM, Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com> wrote:
> 
> On 30 Sep 2016, at 08:07, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela at cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> 
>> Apart from specialized cases, the recommended approach is to use higher protocols (such as formatting or markup). So instead of trying to find superscript letters for “end”, you should consider using rich text or a markup language so that the word written with normal letters “end” is formatted or marked up as a superscript.
> 
> Even I don’t because I want stuff to be preserved in plain text. 
> 
> Michael




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