Hi,

I'm trying to read information from a file and use to label a line in a plot, i.e. If

stringfromfile="abcd"; (* then inside Plot ... *) Epilog->{Text[stringfromfile]}

This works fine for most case, but I don't know how to generate superscripts in this situation, i.e. Read in a string, such as:

stringfromfile="did you know that ^4^He is an interesting isotope" (*I used the "^" here as a arbitrary marker of the superscripted character*)

and parse it such that

Text[stringfromfile]

produces: "did you know that ⁴He is an interesting isotope". I tried a bunch of approaches, but the closest I got is the following:

tmp = StringSplit[stringfromfile, "^"];
Text[(tmp[[1]] <> ""^tmp[[2]] <> tmp[[3]])];

This produces: "did you know that ^{4He is an interesting isotope}" Does anyone know a way to store / interpret this formatting information, short of generating the BoxData code:

"\<\"did you know that\\!\\(\\*SuperscriptBox[\\(\\\\ \\), \\(4\\)]\\)He is an interesting isotope\"\>"

Thanks