On 11/16/21, Tadziu Hoffmann <hoffm...@usm.uni-muenchen.de> wrote: > However, if we assume they were > intended as an easy way to get super- and subscripts (e.g., for > footnote markers, or as in "H\d2\uO"), then you definitely want > the motion to be in units of the current font size and not in > baseline spacings. Otherwise, those super- and subscripts > would be ripped from the text lines they belong to if you > were to try setting the text double-spaced by requesting > (say) .vs 24 for a 10-point font.
A very good point, thank you. That does rather scuttle my argument. I wonder if it's worth pointing this out in the documentation of these escapes.