Subscripts and superscripts with text editor

[Frabjous]

When I use subscripts and superscripts with the text editor, it sticks a return in before the sub/superscript. This is a change in behavior.

I am using safari on an Ipad.

 

[jtbell]

Pulling out my iPad... Testing... x

²


Looks like you're right. I selected the 'x2' by double-tapping on it, dragged one of the selection handles to include only the '2', and tapped the superscript icon.

Looks like to fix it, for now, you have to delete the returns by hand to get everything on one line. Or you can enter the tags by hand when you're writing the post, instead of using the icons.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Can reproduce on Firefox on laptop.

 

[DrGreg]

It's even worse than described above. Not only does it insert a return before and after a SUP tag, and before a /SUP tag, it inserts two returns after a /SUP tag.

(Firefox 108.0.2 under Windows 10)

 

[Tom.G]

[tirade]
The two following 'Works fine...' are each on their own single line.
10⁵ Works fine on Mypal browser 28.13.0, dated 2006, on Windows XP.
X² Works fine on Mypal browser 28.13.0, dated 2006 on Windows XP.

And I get static when I point out that site version 'upgrades' stop working on XP. Go figure!

(advance-to-the-rear?)
[end tirade]

 

[mfb]

@Tom.G: You typed these tags manually, right? That always works. The discussion is about tags inserted via the icons in the editor. They are inserted in all caps and with extra line breaks, while your tags are lowercase.

 

[Mark44]

105 Works fine on Mypal browser 28.13.0, dated 2006, on Windows XP.
X2 Works fine on Mypal browser 28.13.0, dated 2006 on Windows XP.

Why are you still on Win XP? Support for it ended almost 9 years ago. I hope that computer is not connected to the internet...

 

[Tom.G]

Please see:
https://www.physicsforums.com/posts/6838841
and
https://www.physicsforums.com/posts/6839159

 

[dextercioby]

Why are you still on Win XP? Support for it ended almost 9 years ago. I hope that computer is not connected to the internet...

I use Windows 7 Home Edition for my old Samsung laptop. Became too attached to it to change it. And yeah, a Samsung laptop going into its 12th year is not too bad.

 

[robphy]

Looks like to fix it, for now, you have to delete the returns by hand to get everything on one line. Or you can enter the tags by hand when you're writing the post, instead of using the icons.

On an ios device, you can set up a "Text Replacement" (via Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Text Replacement). For example, I use $$ for itex in square-brackets and either $& or && for \itex in square brackets. (I use inline most often.) You can do a similar thing for SUP and SUB .

On Windows, I use an autohotkey script ( https://www.autohotkey.com/ )
that encloses text that i had selceted
with opening and closing tags,
when invoked by a custom hotkey combination.

 

[mfb]

No need to replace anything, you can use ## instead of [itex] and [/itex] tags:

##a^2 + b^2 = c^2## becomes ##a^2 + b^2 = c^2##

$$ can be used instead of tex and /tex.

 

[Mark44]

No need to replace anything, you can use ## instead of [itex] and [/itex] tags:

##a^2 + b^2 = c^2## becomes ##a^2 + b^2 = c^2##

$$ can be used instead of tex and /tex.

It is certainly easier to use the ## (inline formulas) and $$ (standalone formulas) symbols-- less typing. The only reason I can see that people still use the bracketed tex and itex tags is because they don't know about the # and $ ones.

 

[robphy]

For me, on my phone,
$ is on the first non-alphabetic keyboard view,
# is on the second…
so i use the $$ to be replaced by
the itex tags…. but I could use ## instead (and since it’s how I would use TeX elsewhere).