Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> writes: > On 6.9.2013, at 20:03, Charles Berry <ccbe...@ucsd.edu> wrote: > >> Roger Mason <rmason <at> mun.ca> writes: >> >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'd like to create a superscript that preceeds a letter. I tried >>> ^1Fred, ^1 Fred, ^{1}Fred and ^{1} Fred, to no avail. >>> >>> Can this be done in org (8.0.3)? If so how? >> [snip] >> >> \nbsp{}^{1}Fred > > Yes, nice. I also need this often. You can also write \nbsp^{1}Fred, > a bit more compact. I am wondering if we could come up with something > even more compact though. I often have to write names of isotopes, > for example > \nbsp^{13}CO, and I do find that cumbersome.
I don't use prescripts, but perhaps a macro could be used? #+BEGIN_SRC org #+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{mhchem} #+MACRO: ce $\ce{$1}$ {{{ce(^{227}_{90}Th+)}}} *bold* #+END_SRC Further flexibility is probably possible using ob-latex. –Rasmus -- Don't panic!!!