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28 Dec
2022
28 Dec
'22
5:58 a.m.
On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:27:39 +0100
Hans Hagen via ntg-context
What you can do is:
$\primed{a}^2$
which basically makes the prime an operation .. a small price to pay for more robust handling of primes (also across fonts)
I anticipated that (unicode) prime is a pain to handle, given that different fonts present it differently. $\primed{a}...$ is a very readable and reasonable solution (unlike \mathord{}, which seems to be a messy fix). I will learn and use that. Thank you! Alan P.S. inverting the order of the "exponents", if prime is some sort of exponent, was a surprising result.