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How to do superscript markup?
I wrote an answer where I needed to say "square meters". I wanted to write this as "m" followed by a superscript "2". I tried writing "m<sup>2</sup>". That worked in the preview, so I left it that way. Unfortunately, after posting the answer it was written just as "m2", not what I intended.
How to write superscripts (and subscripts while we're at it) in this system? I looked around, but couldn't find any help for the markup language, other than hover text for the button above the edit window. None of those deal with superscripts or subscripts.
As aCVn has already correctly said, those tags get stripped by the server when it's rendering post markdown. I'm curr …
4y ago
As a workaround until the markdown language uses here supports it, you could use the Unicode subscript and superscript c …
4y ago
I think those HTML tags get stripped by the server-side rendering, but I do agree that having some minimal such formatti …
4y ago
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