Title: [Plugin: Markdown on Save Improved] Subscript?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Markdown on Save Improved] Subscript?

 *  Anonymous User
 * (@anonymized-6594098)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-markdown-on-save-improved-subscript/)
 * Hello. I’m using version 2.2 of Markdown on Save Improved on WordPress 3.3.1 
   and it appears to work correctly for all of the usual Markdown syntax that I’ve
   tried but I can’t seem to get superscript to work using anything along the lines
   of `^1` or `^1^` or even footnotes like `[^1]` and so on. If I understand correctly
   this feature is part of PHP Markdown Extra, so I’m not sure if this is an issue
   with the plugin or I’m simply mistaken about it being part of PHP Markdown Extra.
 * To try to suss out the issue, I disabled Markdown on Save Improved and installed
   PHP Markdown Extra as a WordPress plugin and even that didn’t parse the superscript
   syntax correctly, so I’m assuming I’m just mistaken in my understanding that 
   PHP Markdown Extra supports superscripts.
 * Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/markdown-on-save-improved/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/markdown-on-save-improved/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Matt Wiebe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattwiebe/)
 * (@mattwiebe)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-markdown-on-save-improved-subscript/#post-2532302)
 * A glance at the [Markdown Extra syntax](http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/extra/)
   doesn’t show any signs of sub/superscript. Footnotes, however, work in my own
   experience – they’re half the reason I made this plugin.
 * For future reference, there’s only a bug on my end if the results differ from
   the [dingus](http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/dingus/).
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous User
 * (@anonymized-6594098)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-markdown-on-save-improved-subscript/#post-2532311)
 * Ah, I had a feeling it was just my misunderstanding. I’ll have to sort out some
   other solution for superscripts and such. Thanks for the help and thanks for 
   the plugin!
 *  [Aahan Krish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aahan/)
 * (@aahan)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-markdown-on-save-improved-subscript/#post-2532591)
 * [@sam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sam/) : Using Markdown doesn’t mean
   you have to completely avoid HTML. Using basic HTML tags like `<b>`, `<i>`, `
   <del>`, `<strike>`, `<dd>`, `<dl>`, `<dt>`, `<kbd>`, `<s>`, `<sup>`, and `<sub
   >` which aren’t supported by Markdown Syntax, IS NOT a bad practice.
 * In fact, I remember reading that it’s fine to do so, in the [official Markdown documentation itself](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/).

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