Someone must have come across this problem before.

I would like to know of a font which has a few characters which are
subscripts and superscripts. For example, if I would like to write
E=mc2 with 2 as superscript (square), then it should be possible with
one character which is 2, but is smaller and is located higher than
normal text. That character may or may not be on my keyboard, but
could be produced by Chr(11) for example in Visual Basic. Then it
would become possible to write simpler algebraic equations in plain
text (Notepad or emacs).

Long back, in the days of green coloured CRTs, there used to be some
such fonts.

write name here wrote:
> Someone must have come across this problem before.
> 
> I would like to know of a font which has a few characters which are
> subscripts and superscripts. For example, if I would like to write
> E=mc2 with 2 as superscript (square), then it should be possible with
> one character which is 2, but is smaller and is located higher than
> normal text. That character may or may not be on my keyboard, but
> could be produced by Chr(11) for example in Visual Basic. Then it
> would become possible to write simpler algebraic equations in plain
> text (Notepad or emacs).
> 
> Long back, in the days of green coloured CRTs, there used to be some
> such fonts.

In Windows, you can open the Character Map 
(Start->Programs->Accessories->System Tools->Character Map), there 
you'll see which font has 2 and 3 as superscript, e.g. Arial, Helvetica, 
Garamond,  Times New Roman, Comic Sans.

Waldo

spam.here@nowhere.no (write name here) wrote:

> I would like to know of a font which has a few characters which are
> subscripts and superscripts.

It greatly depends on subscripts and superscripts you intend to use.

> For example, if I would like to write
> E=mc2 with 2 as superscript (square), 

It would be somewhat difficult to find a font that does _not_ contain the 
superscript two character U+00B2. It, together with superscript one and 
superscript one, belong to the ISO Latin 1 character set, and most fonts used 
in the Western world contain that set.

All other superscript characters, and all subscript characters, are much less 
commonly available (and used). To get a rough idea, see the font list at
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2074/fontsupport.htm

Followups trimmed.

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spam.here@nowhere.no (write name here) wrote:

> I would like to know of a font which has a few characters which are
> subscripts and superscripts. 

It greatly depends on subscripts and superscripts you intend to use.

> For example, if I would like to write
> E=mc2 with 2 as superscript (square), 

It would be somewhat difficult to find a font that does _not_ contain the 
superscript two character U+00B2. It, together with superscript one and 
superscript one, belong to the ISO Latin 1 character set, and most fonts used 
in the Western world contain that set.

All other superscript characters, and all subscript characters, are much less 
commonly available (and used). To get a rough idea, see the font list at
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2074/fontsupport.htm

Followups trimmed.

-- 
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> It would be somewhat difficult to find a font that does _not_ contain the
> superscript two character U+00B2. It, together with superscript one and
> superscript one, belong to the ISO Latin 1 character set, and most fonts used
> in the Western world contain that set.

Superscripts 1, 2, 3 are outside the MacRoman character set
 http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/iso8859/iso8859-mac.html
and *still* cause trouble even with programs on Mac OS X.
 <news:1h3ckjx.ahclykugfqmbN%trashcan@hetl.net>
 http://groups.google.com/group/de.comp.sys.mac.internet/msg/5af071da67f167f

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Why should I switch?         Peter T. Daniels in <news:sci.lang>

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, I wrote:

> http://groups.google.com/group/de.comp.sys.mac.internet/msg/5af071da67f167f

Sorry - that should be
  http://groups.google.com/group/de.comp.sys.mac.internet/msg/5af071da67f167f6

Thanks to both of you for your replies.

In article <Xns9711A7A0D5308jkorpelacstutfi@193.229.4.246>,
Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
>spam.here@nowhere.no (write name here) wrote:
>
>> I would like to know of a font which has a few characters which are
>> subscripts and superscripts. 
>
>It greatly depends on subscripts and superscripts you intend to use.
>
>> For example, if I would like to write
>> E=mc2 with 2 as superscript (square), 
>
>It would be somewhat difficult to find a font that does _not_ contain the 
>superscript two character U+00B2. It, together with superscript one and 
>superscript one, belong to the ISO Latin 1 character set, and most fonts used 
>in the Western world contain that set.

Yes, this was useful to know. I saw that superscripts 1, 2, and 3 are
available in most fonts, but not subscripts, and not + and - signs.

>
>All other superscript characters, and all subscript characters, are much less 
>commonly available (and used). To get a rough idea, see the font list at
>http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2074/fontsupport.htm

I haven't yet been able to open this page, but will try again.

>
>Followups trimmed.
>
>-- 
>Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
























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Times New Roman (the one you have loaded on your PC)
Make sure your num lock is on.

Type alt + 0178 for the superscript 2 �
Type alt + 0179 for superscript 3. �
0176 is the degree mark �
0177 is a +/-  �

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