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The \ssp definition in the cited answer, How do you get a scriptscriptstyle-sized prime?, was specifically for \scriptscriptstyle only. To adapt a macro (I kept the same name, but you can change it to suit) for all math styles, just use \mathchoice. In most math styles, it is just #1^\prime. Only in \scriptscriptstyle does the alternate definition kick in ...

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You are talking about a math environment I guess (because you mention $^$). I think the answer depends on the packages being loaded. In the example I think the package unicode-math actually makes $²$ to expand to and $^2$ (or something similar). Once this substitution is made the result (in math mode) is independent of the font selected. ...

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You can make TeX ignore the height of a formula with the \smash command. Try ... some text $\smash{A_{b/c}^{dd}}$ more text ... The \smash macro is provided by plain TeX and it sets the height and depth of a maths subformula to zero. Beware that this might make your subscripts and superscripts overprint the lines above or below.

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The parenthesis in the example provided is not really necessary. The problem here was the fact of forgetting to group the superscripts/subscripts in braces. This is a good practice. Hence the right approach is illustrated below: \documentclass[letterpaper]{article} \begin{document} $p= \sqrt{2}^{(\sqrt{2})}$ $p= \sqrt{2}^{\sqrt{2}}$ \end{document}

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The font is respected if you use a better syntax: \documentclass{book} \usepackage{tipa} \newcommand{\upschwa}{\textsuperscript{\textschwa}} \begin{document} \textit{ahmiia zaoth etc\upschwa} ahmiia zaoth etc\upschwa \end{document} Note though that the TIPA fonts don't have italics, but only slanted. Loading tipa with noenc would give infinite ...

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The prime symbols are not too low, they're too small: you're requesting that first level sub/superscripts are 6pt, which is too small next to an 11pt size symbol. Computing 80% of 11pt gives 8.8pt, and the standard first level sub/superscript size for 11pt is 8pt. Of course you need arbitrarily scalable fonts for this to work (\usepackage{lmodern}, for ...

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Please always post complete documents that show the problem. It should work: \documentclass{article} \begin{document} 8\textsuperscript{th} 8th \end{document}

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