Can there be support for superscripting in SO chat? Possibly with a syntax such as:
^^text^^
For example:
My birthday is On the 27^^th^^ of February
or
Teh Internetz^^TM^^
It will be quite awesome. Thanks.
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Sign up to join this communityCan there be support for superscripting in SO chat? Possibly with a syntax such as:
^^text^^
For example:
My birthday is On the 27^^th^^ of February
or
Teh Internetz^^TM^^
It will be quite awesome. Thanks.
Just use the well-known Unicode transforms:
tr[+−=()0123456789AaÆᴂɐɑɒBbcɕDdðEeƎəɛɜɜfGgɡɣhHɦIiɪɨᵻɩjJʝɟKklLʟᶅɭMmɱNnɴɲɳŋOoɔᴖᴗɵȢPpɸrRɹɻʁsʂʃTtƫUuᴜᴝʉɥɯɰʊvVʋʌwWxyzʐʑʒꝯᴥβγδθφχнნʕⵡ]
[⁺⁻⁼⁽⁾⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹ᴬᵃᴭᵆᵄᵅᶛᴮᵇᶜᶝᴰᵈᶞᴱᵉᴲᵊᵋᶟᵌᶠᴳᵍᶢˠʰᴴʱᴵⁱᶦᶤᶧᶥʲᴶᶨᶡᴷᵏˡᴸᶫᶪᶩᴹᵐᶬᴺⁿᶰᶮᶯᵑᴼᵒᵓᵔᵕᶱᴽᴾᵖᶲʳᴿʴʵʶˢᶳᶴᵀᵗᶵᵁᵘᶸᵙᶶᶣᵚᶭᶷᵛⱽᶹᶺʷᵂˣʸᶻᶼᶽᶾꝰᵜᵝᵞᵟᶿᵠᵡᵸჼˤⵯ];
That way you can have 1ˢᵗ 2ⁿᵈ 3ʳᵈ 4ᵗʰ without needing HTML’s clumsy 1st 2nd 3rd 4th.
Wouldn’t you rather enter 1ˢᵗ 2ⁿᵈ 3ʳᵈ 4ᵗʰ
than 1<sup>st</sup> 2<sup>nd</sup> 3<sup>rd</sup> 4<sup>th</sup>
? I know I sure would. Even my eyes hurt looking at all the typing needed for the HTML tag-in tag-out sequences.
Plus the font’s superiors always look better than the HTML jiggery. HTML superscripts usually screw up the linespacing, but the font’s superiors are guaranteed to never do that.
1^{st}
or whatever?
– Michael Mrozek
Feb 24 '12 at 16:03
<sup>
and</sup>
. ^^ is a well-known smiley. – rightfold Feb 24 '12 at 11:40monospace
. Chat isn’t just an ancient 40-glyph unicameral Morse-code system set ina constant-width font
, and it impoverishes our expressivity to so restrict it. ☺ – tchrist Feb 24 '12 at 12:452<sup>n</sup> - 1
. The fact that it didn't work led me here. I'm shocked that this hasn't come up more frequently elsewhere on SE, since this was.. in Server Fault chat! – Michael Hampton Apr 30 '13 at 2:43