[XeTeX] \textsuperscript and \textsubscript size

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 08:08:24PM +0100, BPJ wrote:

> Is it an optical illusion, or is the size of \textsuperscript and
> \textsubscript rather like \tiny than like \scriptsize?

It depends on the font size context, thus the size can even
be larger than \normalsize:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
X\textsuperscript{A}{\scriptsize A}{\tiny A}

Normalsize: A

{\Huge
X\textsuperscript{A}{\scriptsize A}{\tiny A}
}
\end{document}

Yours sincerely
  Heiko Oberdiek