On Sunday 22 December 2024 08:56:35 am wn4isx via groups.io wrote:
I'm still limited and won't be able to properly produce the subscript 2 as in H2O. Subscript means the 2 is offset a half line below the H and O, similarly I won't be able to produce superscripts, the one that comes to mind first is 2 to the 4th power, 22 with the second 2 raised a half line above the first 2. Yes I know the convention is 2^2 but I prefer to go old school when I can.
HTML handles thiis well, though it can mess up line spacing.
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I actually feel sorry for anyone who has to learn English as an adult.? Heck I feel sorry for anyone who has/had to learn English as a child!
Isaac Asimov once wrote as to how English was probably the most difficult language to learn as an adult. Somewhere in one of his many essays...
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
