For anyone who is interested and might have the same problem The solution looks like this:
\begin{document} \font\up="Linux Libertine O:+sups,script=latn,language=DEU" \font\down="Linux Libertine O:+sinf,script=latn,language=DEU" \ce{^{\down 14}_{\up 6}C} \end{document} That produces the desired output. BUT: This just has to be an utter hack and I can not believe it is the way it is supposed to be done. I'm putting the scientific inferior numbers in the upper position, and the scientific superiors in the lower position. Does that make sense to anyone? Cheers Sebastian -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex