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Sometimes I type a date i.e. 20th of September and it automatically superscripts the 'th' and sometimes it doesn't.  I don't want the 'th' superscripted, how can I make them all consistent?

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On the 30th of October 1848 at St Mary’s Church in Donnybrook, Dublin, Ireland John married Maryann Hardy, aged 25, daughter of William Henry (a book-keeper) and Elizabeth Hardy. Maryann was born in Long Melford, Suffolk, England and christened on the 26th of November 1823.

 

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What application are you using, and what OS?

The behavior should be consistent, but might depend on the font you're using, and the various options you've chosen in the Character studio panel or in a text style, so it would help to have a sample document (.afpub, .afdesign) that exhibits the problem.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
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    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
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I think @Murfee has found the right preference, @Leonie, and it's a simpler fix than the one I was thinking about.

But it still leaves the question of why some of your ordinals were superscripted and some not. Was some of that text pasted in, and some of it typed? The preference that Murfee pointed out applies only to text that is typed, not text that is pasted.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7

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9 hours ago, Leonie said:

I am using Affinity Publisher on a Mac OS 10.15.3.

A bit off-topic, but I am curious if there is some reason you are not running the most recent version of Catalina (10.15.7).

All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.5 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7
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ll 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7

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I may have pasted some from an InDesign document and typed the others, not sure now.  I have changed the preference now which works fine for dates. Now though all measurements etc are also affected.  Is their a way that I can do it for the dates only?

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18 minutes ago, Leonie said:

Is their a way that I can do it for the dates only?

Not that I know of.

But, if you leave the option set On, then when you're typing it will superscript the ordinals and you can (assuming you notice it) simply Undo (Cmd+Z) and it will go back to what you typed. The trick is in noticing it.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7

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