The REALSCRIPTS package

Small package to replace \textsuperscript & \textsubscript by equivalent commands that use OpenType font features to access the appropriate glyphs if possible.

Provides \textsubsuperscript (and \textsupersubscript) for setting subscripts and superscripts on top of each other.

Also patches LaTeX's default footnote command to use this new \textsuperscript for footnote symbols.

Requires fontspec running on either XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX.

For more information see the documentation realscripts.pdf.

Change History

v0.3d 2016/02/13

• Fix somewhat important typo in the documentation.
• Minor other updates to the docs.
• Fix old expl3 syntax change.

v0.3c 2013/03/18

• Fix completely broken \textsupersubscript.
• Allow \textsubsuperscript at the start of a paragraph (!).
• Sync with expl3 updates.

v0.3b 2013/02/27

• Remove internal definition of two functions that have since been defined in expl3 (\dim_min:nn and \dim_max:nn).

v0.3 2010/09/30

• New commands \textsubsuperscript and \textsupersubscript added.
• Fix an "infinite loop" bug added in the last version, triggered when loading the xltxtra package with the [no-sscript] option.

v0.2 2010/09/20

• Add feature to specify the font of the patched footnotemark. This behaves well with KOMA-Script's \setkomafont, as well.

v0.1

• First release
• Extracted from the xltxtra package

Maintenance

The release version of this package is available from CTAN:

• http://ctan.org/pkg/realscripts

Development and historical versions are available from GitHub:

• http://github.com/wspr/realscripts/

Please report bugs and feature suggestions to the issue tracker:

• http://github.com/wspr/realscripts/issues

Licence

The realscripts package is released under the LaTeX Project Public License version 1.3c or greater. The current maintainer is Will Robertson.

Copyright 2010 Will Robertson