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From: Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de>
Subject: Re: superscript without base
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 13:30:29 +0000
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Hi Rasmus,

Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
> John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>
>> or maybe try \textsuperscript{foo}
>
> This would work in at least KOMA-Script.
>
> Check org-match-substring-regexp.  As you see at subscripts must start
> with something that's not a space.  So I guess you could use a filter to
> remove some otherwise unused character or the the like...  Or change the
> the syntax table changed so that zero width space is somehow not an \s,
> but that's probably asking for trouble.
>

Thanks for the answer.  So, there is no easy way out.  I think I'll
stick to the \nbsp version, then.  Although introducing some character
that will be removed during export through a filter might be handy in
other cases, too.  I'll think about it.

Thanks,
Andreas