How to do superscripts and subscripts in Jupyter Notebook?

Question

I want to to use numbers to indicate references in footnotes, so I was wondering inside of Jupyter Notebook how can I use superscripts and subscripts?

Solution 1

You can do this inside of a markdown cell. A markdown cell can be created by selecting a cell then pressing the esc key followed by the M key. You can tell when you have converted a cell to markdown when In [ ]: seen to the right of the default code cell is gone. Then you can input the following code that uses latex with markdown to represent sub/super-scripts:

Latex subscript:

$x_{2}$

Latex superscript:

$x^{2}$

You can find more detailed examples here.

Please comment below if you are still having difficulty.

Solution 2

<sup>superscript text </sup> also works, and might be better because latex formatting changes the whole line etc.

Solution 3

What a meta question! One needs to use Markdown to answer Markdown syntax questions. Markdown does have the <sup></sup> and <sub></sub> tags that will adjust text to super- or sub- script, respectively in the typeface of the current block. If you are using the scripts for mathematical statements like this the LaTeX transformation makes sense. If you are using the scripts for footnotes or perhaps for something like chemical formulas (e.g. H₂O) it might be preferable to use the first method rather than LaTeX. Mixing fonts is generally not considered a good graphics/typography practice!

Comments

[James Draper]

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[mightypile]

Note that the text must be left-justified with a blank line separating it from surrounding text. This drove me mad not working because I had indented my text by four spaces, accidentally telling markdown it was pre-formatted code.

[jena]

This is much better answer. Btw the subscript tag is <sub>.