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Nuclear Notation Formating

When I use the notation i.e ¹²
₆C
or ¹²
C
to designate the mass of an isotope the text drops to the next line after the mass number and before the chemical symbol - this makes the string very hard to read. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_notation as an example of this text format. Many other Wikipedia pages also have this text-to-next-line-drop with nuclear and chemical notation so it is a consistent problem for many editors.

How do I get the notations to remain on one line and if there is a solution to this editing problem where is the solution given in the Wikipedia resources - or - where would be a good place to add it?

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Delphwhite (talk) 09:17, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

I'm not seeing any problem here. I'm seeing a superscript 12, underneath that a subscript 6, and just to the right of both of these a "C".There's a discussion at Template talk:Nuclide2 which suggests that the results are different in some browsers - which browser and version are you using? Also, the {{Nuclide}} and {{SimpleNuclide}} templates have been replaced by {{Nuclide2}} and {{SimpleNuclide2}}, so you may get better results with those. Here are your examples using the old templates: ¹²
₆C
and ¹²
C
and the new templates: ¹²
₆C
and ¹²
C
. Any difference? -- John of Reading (talk) 09:57, 14 July 2011 (UTC)