upgrading to trunk gives me the same behaviour as John reported, which, while not perfect, is better for tensors. On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Daniel Mahler wrote: > In my .emacs I have > > (custom-set-variables > ;;... > '(org-pretty-entities t) > '(org-use-sub-superscripts (quote {})) > ;;... > ) > > but I get the opposite result ' ^{14}C' works , but 'x^{y}_{z}' does not, > > > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:18 PM, John Hendy wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Daniel Mahler wrote: >> > This works for me in org 7.9.2 and emacs 24.1.1, but chaining as in >> > 'x^{y}_{z}' will only fontify the ^{y} but not the _{z}, as I reported >> > earlier today, but 'x^{y} _{z}' will fontify both, just with an ugly >> gap in >> > the middle. >> >> Ah. Googled around a bit. Are you sure you don't have something in >> .emacs to set this? If not, perhaps the default settings just changed >> since 7.9.2 and the current master branch, 8.0-pre. I found this upon >> googling "fontify subscripts orgmode": >> - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2012-10/msg00358.html >> >> I added this to my buffer: >> >> #+startup: entitiespretty >> >> Now I get the attached. Indeed = ^{14}C= does not work for me, but >> =x^{y}_{z}= does. >> >> >> John >> >> >> >> > >> > cheers >> > Daniel >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 1:29 AM, Bastien wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi Thomas, >> >> >> >> tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes: >> >> >> >> > With a recent git pull and #+OPTIONS: ^:{}, `C^{14}' is interpreted >> >> > correctly but ` ^{14}C' is not, both in the Org buffer and in LaTeX >> >> > export. The space before the caret appears to be the problem. >> >> >> >> Confirmed -- this was reported already once. I don't have a fix for >> >> this at the moment, hopefully Nicolas can have a look sometime. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Bastien >> >> >> > >> > >