# superscript

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superscript/477>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [September 16, 1999, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superscript/477 "1999-09-16T16:31:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 1999, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superscript/477/1 "1999-09-16T16:31:00Z")

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I saw somewhere instructions on how to do superscripts and subscripts. But I can’t find the info now either by browsing topics or by search.

If you know how to do this, please (re)post.

Thanx.

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Livin’ on Tums, Vitamin E and Rogaine

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 1999, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superscript/477/2 "1999-09-16T20:14:00Z")

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That sounds like a job for html: [Some Useful HTML Tags](http://members.aol.com/websupport/html/)

your humble TubaDiva/SDStaffDiv  
for the Straight Dope

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 1999, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superscript/477/3 "1999-09-16T20:27:00Z")

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Dammit! The corporate web-bahs have blocked any site with even a whiff of AOLness to it. Would you please C&P the relevant passage?

Please? I’ll be your best friend!

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Livin’ on Tums, Vitamin E and Rogaine

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**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 1999, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superscript/477/4 "1999-09-16T22:18:00Z")

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manhattan:

&ltSUB&gtSubscript&lt/SUB&gt = [SUB]Subscript[/SUB]

&ltSUP&gtSuperscript&lt/SUP&gt = [SUP]Superscript[/SUP]

Now, let’s see if I typed all that in without screwing it up!

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**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 1999, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superscript/477/5 "1999-09-17T00:22:00Z")

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> [@](#):
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> That sounds like a job for html: Some Useful HTML Tags

☹ man, that puts my tutoral to shame.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 1999, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superscript/477/6 "1999-09-17T01:45:00Z")

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It does not!

Geez, Louie, we’d rather go to you than some stranger.

your humble TubaDiva/SDStaffDiv  
for the Straight Dope

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**Author:** ![E1skeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3da27b/32.png) [@E1skeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E1skeptic)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 1999, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superscript/477/7 "1999-09-17T03:43:00Z")

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```auto

 Renders text underlined.
  Usage:
  The word underlined is underlined.

```

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**Author:** ![E1skeptic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3da27b/32.png) [@E1skeptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E1skeptic)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 1999, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superscript/477/8 "1999-09-17T03:50:00Z")

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oooooooops. didn’t work as I thought it would. :o

**manhattan** : use these \<\> instead of these (), and follow this example,

(u)manhattan(/u) should look like manhattan

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 1999, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superscript/477/9 "1999-09-17T04:08:00Z")

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Thanks to all!. I successfully placed a superscript in the MPSIMS folder. I waited, like, 9 hours to do so, but it was worth it.

As to Louie’s self-deprecating comment,

\<marquee behavior=“alternate”\>I can’t emphasize how much you rock.\</marquee\>

## \<marquee behavior=“alternate”\>Your tutorial is still the best.\</marquee\>

Livin’ on Tums, Vitamin E and Rogaine

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**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 1999, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superscript/477/10 "1999-09-17T05:52:00Z")

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Thanks. 🙂

Hmmm, maybe I should do a sex tutoral over at MPSIMS, since that’s what they all talk about over there now.

Or has that already been done?

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**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 1999, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superscript/477/11 "1999-09-17T08:36:00Z")

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Sub and superscripts? Don’t let it steam ya’, just take some H[sub]2[/sub]O and take a view at the code.[sup]1[/sup] OK?  
Peace.  
[sup]1[/sup]Use your web browser’s view code feature.

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> Sub and superscripts?& Don’t let it steam ya’, just take some H[sub]2[/sub]O and take a view at the code.[sup]1[/sup]& OK?
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> Peace.
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> [sup]1[/sup]Use your web browser’s view code feature.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 1999, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superscript/477/12 "1999-09-17T15:37:00Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Hmmm, maybe I should do a sex tutoral over at MPSIMS, since that’s what they all talk about over there now.

Them’s that can’t do, talk. 🙂

your humble TubaDiva  
There’s a reason it’s called Mundane and Pointless.

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 1999, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superscript/477/13 "1999-09-20T22:29:00Z")

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Ignore this.  
Pursuing the topics in General Questions today has left me with some questions of my own.

Has the internet broken? Are all search engines bereft of URLs?

I did a quick search today and got a perfectly acceptable answer to my query, but maybe I have Super-Duper-Extra-Cool Internet [SUP]TM[/SUP] , and some of today’s topic posters haven’t yet downloaded the software from \<font color=“blue”\>Buyadictionary.com\</font\>