Title: Problem with superscript Last modified: October 15, 2020 --- # Problem with superscript * Resolved [pushtheredbutton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pushtheredbutton/) * (@pushtheredbutton) * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-superscript/) * It seems like Ivory search has problems with superscript, is that correct? In our texts we have a lot of key phrases that contains superscript, such as 125I and 111In. This is how they are written scientifically so we would want to keep it like that. However, when you use ivory search and search for 125I you will not get hits on the texts that contain 125I. And if you copy 125I as text where 125 is in superscript then Ivory search still changes the text in the search field to regular letters (without the superscript format). * Is there any way of overcome this problem without having to rewrite all our key phrases? * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fproblem-with-superscript%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * Plugin Author [Vinod Dalvi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vinod-dalvi/) * (@vinod-dalvi) * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-superscript/#post-13538764) * I hope you are well today and thank you for your question. * The plugin does not change any text. * Could you please share the page URL from your site where it is not displaying correctly so that I can troubleshoot it? * Best regards, * Thread Starter [pushtheredbutton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pushtheredbutton/) * (@pushtheredbutton) * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-superscript/#post-13619293) * Sure! In this example I copied 125I and it changed to just 125I. [https://1drv.ms/b/s!AuqeEjx_I_SIgzaAwS9ivIgwKpiJ?e=L1LDjb](http://Screenshot) * But my problem is not so much that it changed in the Search field, but that the search function makes a difference between superscript and non-superscript characters. Our customers would try to search for 125I, but will then not find the things we are looking for if we use the correct text format (125I). For now I have just changed to the incorrect format (without superscript) so that people will find the right pages, but it makes the texts look quite unprofessional. * Note: 125I is just an example. We have many more in the same format. * Plugin Author [Vinod Dalvi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vinod-dalvi/) * (@vinod-dalvi) * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-superscript/#post-13620686) * I searched 125I on your website and it displays search results for me as displayed on the below page. * [https://ligandtracer.com/?s=125I&id=37186&v=c86ee0d9d7ed](https://ligandtracer.com/?s=125I&id=37186&v=c86ee0d9d7ed) * Please advise. * Thread Starter [pushtheredbutton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pushtheredbutton/) * (@pushtheredbutton) * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-superscript/#post-13649014) * Yes, I have had to change all superscript text to regular text on all our pages so that they searchable. This is NOT how I want it to be. I hope that you manage to sort this out because our texts look unprofessional now because all our readers know that this is not how it is supposed to look. * Plugin Author [Vinod Dalvi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vinod-dalvi/) * (@vinod-dalvi) * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-superscript/#post-13649060) * Could you please share with me the page URL from your site where the superscript text is displaying and tell me what text it is so that I can troubleshoot it? * Thread Starter [pushtheredbutton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pushtheredbutton/) * (@pushtheredbutton) * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-superscript/#post-13649102) * Sure. I made an example here: [https://ligandtracer.com/benefit-of-later-time-point-pet-imaging-of-her3-expression-using-optimized-radiocobalt-labeled-affibody-molecules-2020/](https://ligandtracer.com/benefit-of-later-time-point-pet-imaging-of-her3-expression-using-optimized-radiocobalt-labeled-affibody-molecules-2020/) * If you search you will not find the page, because it is written as 57Co. * Plugin Author [Vinod Dalvi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vinod-dalvi/) * (@vinod-dalvi) * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-superscript/#post-13652442) * The page is getting found by searching 57 or 57 Co as below. * [https://ligandtracer.com/?s=57&v=c86ee0d9d7ed](https://ligandtracer.com/?s=57&v=c86ee0d9d7ed) [https://ligandtracer.com/?s=57+co&v=c86ee0d9d7ed](https://ligandtracer.com/?s=57+co&v=c86ee0d9d7ed) * It won’t get found If you search 57co as there is no word like that in the page content as it is 57Co * To make it work, you can try adding it as below in the plugin synonyms option as described here [https://ivorysearch.com/docs/synonyms-words-search/](https://ivorysearch.com/docs/synonyms-words-search/) * 57co = 57Co; * Thread Starter [pushtheredbutton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pushtheredbutton/) * (@pushtheredbutton) * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-superscript/#post-13652554) * Ok, I wasn´t aware that the synonym function existed. Unfortunately, it doesn ´t work. I tested it on staging2.ligandtracer.com (where I haven´t changed all the superscripts to normal text) and it still doesn´t find the right pages when searching. 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