9.2 Subscripts and Superscripts

Just like in LaTeX, `^' and `_' are used to indicate super- and subscripts. Again, these can be used without embedding them in math-mode delimiters. To increase the readability of ASCII text, it is not necessary (but OK) to surround multi-character sub- and superscripts with curly braces. For example

     The mass if the sun is M_sun = 1.989 x 10^30 kg.  The radius of
     the sun is R_{sun} = 6.96 x 10^8 m.

To avoid interpretation as raised or lowered text, you can quote `^' and `_' with a backslash: `\_' and `\^'.

During HTML export (see HTML export), subscript and superscripts are surrounded with <sub> and <sup> tags, respectively.