Thanks a lot Hans for the explanation! 

Cheers,
Florent

Le jeu. 24 avr. 2025 à 10:53, Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl> a écrit :
On 4/24/2025 11:27 AM, Florent Michel wrote:

> \starttext
>    $T^a_b^c$
>    $T^a{}_b{}^c{}$
> \stoptext
>
> produces (unless my eyes are deceiving me) twice the same output, with
> the subscript b below a.

fwiw: {} in context in math does not create an atom, it is just grouping
so here it does nothing; we have a different mechanism for handling
multiple successive scripts (plus control over spacing)

see mikaels answer

Hans

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