Subject: bug#75664: closed (Re: [PATCH] doc: fix superscript in Texinfo manual's math)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 07:48:02 +0000

Your bug report

#75664: [PATCH] doc: fix superscript in Texinfo manual's math

which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to [email-masked].

-- 
75664: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=75664
GNU Bug Tracking System
Contact [email-masked] with problems

Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: fix superscript in Texinfo manual's math
From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
To: "G. Branden Robinson" <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 23:47:39 -0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Thanks, I installed that fix.

Subject: [PATCH] doc: fix superscript in Texinfo manual's math
From: "G. Branden Robinson" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 00:41:48 -0600
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

The numeral "3" in the exponent was set at full size on the baseline.

---
 doc/coreutils.texi | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index ec58f6cf2..45f4c8002 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -1560,7 +1560,7 @@
 whether such values are useful depends on the command in question.
 Modern C implementations also accept hexadecimal floating point
 numbers such as @code{-0x.ep-3}, which stands for @minus{}14/16 times
-@math{2^-3}, which equals @minus{}0.109375.  @xref{Parsing of
+@math{2^{-3}}, which equals @minus{}0.109375.  @xref{Parsing of
 Floats,,, libc, The GNU C Library Reference Manual}.
 
 @vindex LC_NUMERIC
-- 
2.30.2