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Re: Superscript problem

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On  7 April 2023 11:56 db, wrote:

> I just upgraded to Kubuntu 22.04 (coming from 18.04) and emacs
> is not behaving as it did before. When I try to get a
> superscript, for example x^2, I type in the x, then try for the
> hat. Before, when I did that and followed with the 2 (or
> anything else) I got that superscripted. Now I get a new tiny
> window seen here:
> www.dieterbritz.dk/Screenshot_20230407_112249.png
> but nothing I do gets me the superscript. Sometimes it appears
> elsewhere on the page instead of where my cursor is.
>
> Is this bug or a feature? If the latter, how do I use it,
> what do I have to do to get the superscript?

Are you doing "X^2" or "X C-x 8^2"? The latter gives me: X²

thanks to iso-trans.el, part of Emacs. See here:
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TypographicalPunctuationMarks 

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Superscript problem db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2023-04-07 11:56 +0200
  Re: Superscript problem Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net> - 2023-04-07 12:12 +0200
    Re: Superscript problem db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2023-04-07 15:23 +0200
  Re: Superscript problem USEnet <jvromans@squirrel.nl> - 2023-04-07 17:38 +0200
    Re: Superscript problem Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2023-04-08 00:36 +0200
      Re: Superscript problem USEnet <jvromans@squirrel.nl> - 2023-04-08 10:06 +0200
        Re: Superscript problem Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2023-04-08 18:01 +0200

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