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From: Sebastien Vauban <sva-news-D0wtAvR13HarG/iDocfnWg@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Turn subscript off by default?
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:56:44 +0200
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Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> In more documents than not, it seems I see someone do something like
>
>   foo_bar
>
> Common, of course, because most orgmode users are programmers.
>
> Of course this results in the super awkward rendering of
> foo(subscripted:bar).
>
> I can't remember *ever* making use of subscript in an orgmode document,
> though I and many others have run into problems with it... why not
> switch the default for subscript to off?

Put

  (setq org-use-sub-superscripts '{})

in your .emacs file.

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban