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This may be confusing in the common case where several methods are used in the same article. Moreover, mathematicians who are used to reading and writing texts written with LaTeX often find the raw HTML rendering awful. So, raw HTML should normally not be used for new content. However, raw HTML is still present in many mathematical articles.
The subscripts and superscripts are set in upright font, in keeping with normal practice for numerals and descriptive subscripts. To set the superscript or subscript in oblique font, as for a subscript that itself is a variable, use the HTML <var>...</var> or <i>...</i> tags, or the wikimarkup for italics ('').
The {} and {} templates are useful shortcuts to the HTML markup. Do not use the Unicode subscripts and superscripts ² and ³, or XML/HTML character entity references (² etc.). Rather, write <sup>2</sup> and <sup>3</sup> to produce the superscripts 2 and 3. The superscripted 2 and 3 are easier to read, especially on small displays, and ...
Superscripts and subscripts of arbitrary height can be done with the \raisebox{<dimen>}{<text>} command: the first argument is the amount to raise, and the second is the text; a negative first argument will lower the text. In this case the text is not resized automatically, so a sizing command can be included, e.g. go\raisebox{1ex}{\large home}.
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A template that complements {}, i.e. it subscripts <small>-sized text: {{smallsub|Text to be subscripted}} produces: Text to be subscripted. This template may be listed at Wikipedia:Subst as a good candidate for substituting (i.e. {{subst:smallsub}} ). On a page that uses the template many times, however, this is likely to clutter and lengthen ...
This is equivalent to writing <sub><sub>Text to be subscripted twice</sub></sub>. See also This page was last edited on 17 July 2012, at 21:11 ...
For anyone considering whether to use these or not: The Unicode Consortium and current HTML/CSS guidelines recommend using markup (such as <sup>) which will look more consistent. However if the reader copy/pastes text with markup they will often lose said markup when they paste the text. ―MJBurrage (T•C) 16:21, 8 January 2016 (UTC)