Re: [Docutils-users] power in reStructuredText

[David G. <go...@py...>]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Guenter Milde <mi...@us...> wrote:
> On 2015-06-14, mansour amini wrote:
>
>> hihow can i show power function in reStructedText (for exapmle instead
>> of 2 * 2 = 4 write 2^2 =4)? i don't want to use ^, i want show like
>> mathematics expression
>
> Then you can use a mehtematical expression in a "math" role or directive.
> The input syntax is "LaTeX math", the output is properly typeset (if the
> aoutput format supports math (html and latex do, see the reStructuredText
> documentation for details).)
>
> Aternatively, you can use superscript Unicode characters or the "sup" role
> for the exponent.

For simple expressions (x² etc), I like to use Unicode superscript
characters: ¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹⁰. There are also subscript characters:
₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉₀. And lots of others besides.

To type these, I enable the Compose Key on my systems. Native support
on Linux, WinCompose on Windows.

-- 
David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger>