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.

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