diff --git a/resources/recipes/orlando_sentinel.recipe b/resources/recipes/orlando_sentinel.recipe
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7a59f6f6ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/recipes/orlando_sentinel.recipe
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+
+class AdvancedUserRecipe1279258912(BasicNewsRecipe):
+    title          = u'Orlando Sentinel'
+    oldest_article = 3
+    max_articles_per_feed = 100
+
+    feeds          = [
+	(u'News', u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/orlandosentinel/news'),
+	(u'Opinion', u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/orlandosentinel/news/opinion'),
+	(u'Business', u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/orlandosentinel/business'),
+	(u'Technology', u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/orlandosentinel/technology'),
+	(u'Space and Science', u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/orlandosentinel/news/space'),
+	(u'Entertainment', u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/orlandosentinel/entertainment'),
+	(u'Life and Family', u'http://feeds.feedburner.com/orlandosentinel/features/lifestyle'),
+	]
+    __author__ = 'rty'
+    pubisher  = 'OrlandoSentinel.com'
+    description           = 'Orlando, Florida, Newspaper'
+    category              = 'News, Orlando, Florida'
+
+
+    remove_javascript = True
+    use_embedded_content   = False
+    no_stylesheets = True
+    language = 'en'
+    encoding               = 'utf-8'
+    conversion_options = {'linearize_tables':True}
+    masthead_url = 'http://www.orlandosentinel.com/media/graphic/2009-07/46844851.gif'
+    keep_only_tags = [
+                              dict(name='div', attrs={'class':'story'})
+                               ]
+    remove_tags = [
+                  dict(name='div', attrs={'class':['articlerail','tools','comment-group','clearfix']}),
+                         ]
+    remove_tags_after = [
+                  dict(name='p', attrs={'class':'copyright'}),
+                         ]
diff --git a/resources/templates/rtf.xsl b/resources/templates/rtf.xsl
index 9199654665..74696f0857 100644
--- a/resources/templates/rtf.xsl
+++ b/resources/templates/rtf.xsl
@@ -111,7 +111,6 @@
                 or (@shadow = 'true')
                 or (@hidden = 'true')
                 or (@outline = 'true')
-
                 ">
                <emph rend = "paragraph-emph">
                     <xsl:apply-templates/>
@@ -277,6 +276,26 @@
                 <xsl:value-of select="count(preceding::rtf:footnote) + 1"/>
                 <xsl:text>]</xsl:text>
             </xsl:when>
+            <xsl:when test="(@superscript = 'true')">
+                <xsl:element name="sup">
+                    <xsl:element name="span">
+                        <xsl:attribute name="class">
+                            <c:inline-class/>
+                        </xsl:attribute>
+                        <xsl:apply-templates/>
+                    </xsl:element>
+                </xsl:element>
+            </xsl:when>
+            <xsl:when test="(@underscript = 'true')">
+                <xsl:element name="sub">
+                    <xsl:element name="span">
+                        <xsl:attribute name="class">
+                            <c:inline-class/>
+                        </xsl:attribute>
+                        <xsl:apply-templates/>
+                    </xsl:element>
+                </xsl:element>
+            </xsl:when>
             <xsl:otherwise>
                 <xsl:element name="span">
                     <xsl:attribute name="class">
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/__init__.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/__init__.py
index d5e7aafb32..e45334777e 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/__init__.py
@@ -288,7 +288,8 @@ class MetaInformation(object):
                      'timestamp', 'lccn', 'lcc', 'ddc', 'pubdate', 'rights',
                      'publication_type', 'uuid'):
             if replace_metadata:
-                setattr(self, attr, getattr(mi, attr, None))
+                setattr(self, attr, getattr(mi, attr, 1.0 if \
+                        attr == 'series_index' else None))
             elif hasattr(mi, attr):
                 val = getattr(mi, attr)
                 if val is not None: