I believe "math-shift" loses the information about the fact that it only applies to superscript (and not subscript, overscript or numerator shifts...) There was an alternative shorter name "cramped" ...
TeX has a similar concept called "cramped" (Mozilla's source code also uses "compressed") to automatically minimize the shift of superscripts in some subexpressions and this is the name used in the ...
Subscript and superscript text formatting is commonly used in the math and science world when writing out chemicals, formulas, and expressions. Subscript appears slightly lower and smaller than the ...