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$Date: 2002-06-12 07:19:37 -0400 (Wed, 12 Jun 2002) $
superscript — A superscript (as in x2, the mathematical notation for x multiplied by itself)
superscript ::= (#PCDATA|link
|olink
|ulink
|emphasis
|replaceable
|symbol
|inlinegraphic
|inlinemediaobject
|anchor
|remark
|subscript
|superscript
)*
Superscript
identifies text that is to be displayed
as a superscript when rendered.
Formatted inline. Superscripts are usually printed in a smaller font and shifted up with respect to the baseline.
These elements contain superscript:
abbrev
, ackno
, acronym
, action
, application
, artpagenums
, attribution
, authorinitials
, bibliocoverage
, biblioid
, bibliomisc
, bibliorelation
, bibliosource
, bridgehead
, citation
, citebiblioid
, citetitle
, city
, classsynopsisinfo
, code
, collabname
, command
, computeroutput
, confdates
, confnum
, confsponsor
, conftitle
, contractnum
, contractsponsor
, contrib
, corpauthor
, corpcredit
, corpname
, country
, database
, date
, edition
, email
, emphasis
, entry
, fax
, filename
, firstname
, firstterm
, foreignphrase
, funcparams
, funcsynopsisinfo
, function
, glosssee
, glossseealso
, glossterm
, guibutton
, guiicon
, guilabel
, guimenu
, guimenuitem
, guisubmenu
, hardware
, holder
, honorific
, interfacename
, invpartnumber
, isbn
, issn
, issuenum
, jobtitle
, keycap
, label
, lineage
, lineannotation
, link
, literal
, literallayout
, lotentry
, manvolnum
, mathphrase
, member
, modespec
, msgaud
, olink
, option
, optional
, orgdiv
, orgname
, otheraddr
, othername
, pagenums
, para
, parameter
, phone
, phrase
, pob
, postcode
, primary
, primaryie
, productname
, productnumber
, programlisting
, property
, pubdate
, publishername
, pubsnumber
, quote
, refentrytitle
, refmiscinfo
, refpurpose
, releaseinfo
, remark
, replaceable
, revnumber
, revremark
, screen
, screeninfo
, secondary
, secondaryie
, see
, seealso
, seealsoie
, seeie
, seg
, segtitle
, seriesvolnums
, shortaffil
, simpara
, state
, street
, subscript
, subtitle
, superscript
, surname
, synopsis
, systemitem
, td
, term
, termdef
, tertiary
, tertiaryie
, th
, title
, titleabbrev
, tocback
, tocentry
, tocfront
, trademark
, ulink
, userinput
, volumenum
, wordasword
, year
.
The following elements occur in superscript:
anchor
, emphasis
, inlinegraphic
, inlinemediaobject
, link
, olink
, remark
, replaceable
, subscript
, superscript
, symbol
, ulink
.
<!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd"> <para> The equation e<superscript>πi</superscript> + 1 = 0 ties together five of the most important mathematical constants. </para>
The equation eπi + 1 = 0 ties together five of the most important mathematical constants.
For additional examples, see also
inlinemediaobject
.