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From: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
Subject: Re: Superscript before character
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 22:47:22 +0200
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Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> On 6.9.2013, at 20:03, Charles Berry <ccberry@ucsd.edu> wrote:
>
>> Roger Mason <rmason <at> mun.ca> writes:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'd like to create a superscript that preceeds a letter.  I tried
>>> ^1Fred, ^1 Fred, ^{1}Fred and ^{1} Fred, to no avail.
>>>
>>> Can this be done in org (8.0.3)?  If so how?
>> [snip]
>>
>> \nbsp{}^{1}Fred
>
> Yes, nice.  I also need this often.  You can also write \nbsp^{1}Fred,
> a bit more compact.  I am wondering if we could come up with something
> even more compact though.  I often have to write names of isotopes,
> for example
> \nbsp^{13}CO, and I do find that cumbersome.

I don't use prescripts, but perhaps a macro could be used?

#+BEGIN_SRC org
#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{mhchem}
#+MACRO: ce $\ce{$1}$
 {{{ce(^{227}_{90}Th+)}}} *bold*
#+END_SRC

Further flexibility is probably possible using ob-latex.

–Rasmus

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