[whatwg] Mathematics in HTML5
    White Lynx 
    whitelynx at operamail.com
       
    Wed Jun 21 09:00:29 PDT 2006
    
    
  
Michel Fortin wrote:
> 4.  In the same reasoning, it would be great if there was a way adjacent
>      elements could share the same horizontal space, like <sup> and  <sub>
>      when they are next to each other:
> 
>          C<sup>1</sup><sub>2</sub>
To avoid changes on CSS side in current proposal 
this is achived via special HTML parsing rules that 
treat adjacent indices as stacked.
<sup>1</sup><sub>2</sub> => <stack><sup>1</sup><sub>2</sub></stack>
Parsing rules does not apply to XHTML version however.
> I'd also add that better support for combining diacritics in 
> Unicode,  designed to stack over each other, would be great for 
> maths too. 
They already are expected to stack over each other.
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