Aloha Benjamin, I don't know if your supposition will work. However, org-pretty-entities can be customized, or you can put (setq org-pretty-entities t) in your .emacs.
I prefer to do this on a per-file basis with: #+startup: entitiespretty hth, Tom Benjamin Slade <sl...@jnanam.net> writes: > Thanks. > > I suppose that: > > (add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'org-toggle-pretty-entities) > > is the way the auto-enable it? > > > On Sat, 13 Oct 2012, Carsten Dominik wrote: > >> On 13.10.2012, at 08:04, Benjamin Slade wrote: >> >>> Is there a way to have org-mode fontify superscript/subscript the way >>> that AUCTeX does? >> >> C-c C-x \ >> >>> >>> (A second, but related, question---especially assuming that the answer >>> to the first question may be "no"---is there any straightforward way of >>> getting emacs to raise/lower text as part of a "face"? [I looked at >>> font-latex.el of AUCTeX, but it's not clear to me exactly how the >>> raising/lowering is being implementd.]) >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> Dr Benjamin Slade <http://ling.uta.edu/~ben/> >>> Dept. of Linguistics & TESOL >>> University of Texas at Arlington >>> 132E Hammond Hall | Office Hours: tba >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> {sent by mu4e on Emacs running under GNU/Linux} >>> -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com