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From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
Subject: Re: Turn subscript off by default?
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 09:27:12 -0500
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Sebastien Vauban writes:

> 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

Helpful!  And indeed, I was discussing defaults, since I get a lot of
exports from others who don't know about this variable... maybe this
should be default behavior?