Nathan Shirley Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 Not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but if you type, for example: 1st 2nd 3rd The program will change the 'st' etc., into superscript. However, If you then try to go back and add text after any of the superscript, whatever you add becomes superscript as well. For example adding commas between the above (1st, 2nd, 3rd) results in superscript commas. It's easy enough to leave a space after the superscript and then just delete the space as a workaround. But I'm guessing that might not be intended behavior? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhikkhu Pesala Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 Not a bug, in my opinion, but an imperfect feature. PagePlus suffers from the same issue. Enabling superscripts for ordinals in Autocorrect formats the ordinals as superscripts. Most fonts do no have superscripted glyphs for a-z, though many may have at least ¹²³ if not a full set of superscripts for figures. Software can only compensate for the missing glyphs by formatting the regular letters with superscript (and bold). If a font has a well designed Ordinals (ordn) feature it is better to use that, and disable the Autocorrect feature. AMD A10-6800K, with Radeon HD Graphics 4100 GHz 8 Gb on Windows 10 64-bit build 17763.316 • My Free OpenType Fonts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Shirley Posted March 2, 2019 Author Share Posted March 2, 2019 Very interesting, thanks. Coming from InDesign I don't have any experience with PagePlus, but I can see how this could be a feature, as you say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhikkhu Pesala Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 I looked at how Affinity Publisher does it, and it is the same as PagePlus. Autocorrected superscripts are not emboldened, as I had thought they might be. In general, it may not be a good idea, although it works well enough for Calibri (illustrated below). The aim is to compensate for the lighter weight of the scaled down superscripts. The Ordinals in Calibri are not correctly designed, as they are not context-sensitive. The ordinals in my own font Mandala are superscripted only after figures. Arial has no ordinals feature. AMD A10-6800K, with Radeon HD Graphics 4100 GHz 8 Gb on Windows 10 64-bit build 17763.316 • My Free OpenType Fonts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick G Posted March 2, 2019 Share Posted March 2, 2019 9 hours ago, Nathan Shirley said: Not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but if you type, for example: 1st 2nd 3rd The program will change the 'st' etc., into superscript. However, If you then try to go back and add text after any of the superscript, whatever you add becomes superscript as well. For example adding commas between the above (1st, 2nd, 3rd) results in superscript commas. It's easy enough to leave a space after the superscript and then just delete the space as a workaround. But I'm guessing that might not be intended behavior? It is definitely something that should be looked at for a resolution. I do not get that behavior in other programs either Affinity Designer 2.2.2075 & beta 2.3.1.2212 Affinity Photo 2.2.2075 beta 2.3.1.2212Affinity Publisher 2.2.2075 & beta 2.3.1.2212 Windows 11 Pro Version 22H2 OS build 22621.1928 Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700 CPU @ 2.90GHz 2.90 GHz Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.7 GB usable) System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff AdamW Posted March 20, 2019 Staff Share Posted March 20, 2019 This is working as expected. Newly inserted text will always pick up the applied formatting at the caret position. You can turn off the feature in 'Preferences > Auto-correct > Superscript ordinals as they are typed' and instead apply them manually if you prefer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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