Text preferences

[Chris Sutton]

Suggest that in the paragraph and character styles in Publisher Preferences the default Ordinal Preference in the Publsiher Preferences  NOT be superscript in the preferences panel.It's a death trap for new users and a nuisance for experienced users.

I spent an hour yesterday trying to get rid of superscipted numbers in the default Numbers style and superscripted numbers in hyperlinks such as u3a@nnnnnnn.  In the end I deleted all styles and recreated the lot.  

It wasn;t until I went to change the default user interface to a lighter grey and better contrast that I spotted the problem. Aaaarrrrggghhh!!!!

 

 

Edited March 19, 2023 by Chris Sutton

[walt.farrell]

7 minutes ago, Chris Sutton said:

Suggest that in the paragraph and character styles in Publisher Preferences the default Ordinal Preference in the Publsiher Preferences  NOT be superscript in the preferences panel.It's a death trap for new users and a nuisance for experienced users.

Can you provide a screenshot, please? I'm not sure I understand your comment.

[Chris Sutton]

Hi Will,

The Preferences screen has a selection for AutoCorrect.  Its default is Superscript Ordinals.  When this is on, if I change from Arial to another font, Body text treats all numbers next to an alpha character as a fraction when fractions are turned on.( I use fractions most of the time as I am working on a book for quilters and it uses half and quarter inches in the patterns.)  However, in this Beta version all numbers are superscripted.  It's a total pain. It doesn't happen in the production version Publisher 2.

 

 

Edited March 20, 2023 by Chris Sutton
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[MikeTO]

Hi Chris, I got identical results in 1.10.6, 2.0.4, and the 2.1 1730 beta, I can't find any changes in behaviour. The AutoCorrect > Superscript setting makes no difference for typing 2inches, it superscripts only when I type 2nd and then superscripts the "nd" and not the 2.

The 2 being superscripted when I type 2inches is due to Fractions being chosen in the Character panel for a font that supports fractions, not AutoCorrect. Fractions should only be turned on when you want fractions, not for typing body text. I agree that it would be better if it converted 2 to a fraction when I type 2/ and not just 2 but that's not the way Affinity works. So just keep fractions off except when you need it.

  

[Chris Sutton]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for responding.  The problem is, I need to have fractions on all the time as a lot of my publications are quilting instructions and involve ince and fractions of inch measurements.  It's not an option for me to turn it off.  However, even with fractions turned off, it still types all numbers as superscripted. It doesn't just happen when I type numbers as fractions, or even when I have fractions turned off.  It happens all the time if I change from Arial to my favoured fonts.  Here ae some screen dumps, not of fractions on, but with the Preference turned to AutoCorrect Superscript Ordinals.  It's a complete pain in the you know what! I have to delete the default Txt styles and build all my styles from scratch.

 

[walt.farrell]

4 hours ago, Chris Sutton said:

The problem is, I need to have fractions on all the time as a lot of my publications are quilting instructions and involve ince and fractions of inch measurements.  It's not an option for me to turn it off.

That would be a good use for a Character Text Style, possibly associated with a keyboard shortcut. When you want to type a fraction, switch to that Character Text Style (possibly by shortcut), type it, then switch back (possibly by another shortcut).