Superscript/subscript tags broken by CSS

[nic-hartley]

I wanted to include superscript (<sup></sup>) in some text. The tag itself carries through, as expected, but the Slate theme includes this CSS reset (removed the other tags it affects, which AFAICT is all of them):

sup {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    border: 0;
    font: inherit;
        font-weight: inherit;
        font-size: inherit;
    vertical-align: baseline;
}

There's no corresponding re-setup for sup, so it ends up just looking like normal text.

One fix would be to add this to the bottom of the stylesheet:

sup {
    font-size: 65%;
    vertical-align: super;
    font-weight: bold;
}

...but of course that might need tweaking to fit better in the theme. I dunno, I'm not an artist. I just want my footnotes.

Another would be to remove sub from the reset, which would apply the browser-default styling.

[nic-hartley]

After a quick glance, it appears sub will be broken in the same way. It'd be as simple a fix -- sub { ... vertical-align: sub; ... } instead of sup/super, but otherwise identical (with the same alternative option of just removing sub from the reset).

[stale]

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

[nic-hartley]

This is still an issue, as far as I know. It would be nice to get it fixed so I can use superscript on Slate.

[stale]

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

[nic-hartley]

Yeah, I've given up on this issue and the theme itself. Might submit a PR for Hacktoberfest, even though I'm now rolling my own.

[snownontrace]

Thanks @nic-hartley -- your suggestions fixed my headache around superscripts!

[stale]

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

[nic-hartley]

sigh

Disappointing to see how completely GitHub ignores issues which are trivially fixed, and it makes me wonder what other issues are being casually ignored.