_TM Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 I'm not sure if this is a feature or a bug? Superscript and subscript buttons in the character panel work only when applied to certain characters and numbers (numbers become superscripts, but not text glyphs) I tried different fonts and different files, same result. For example, in the phrase "19th century" 'th' becomes a superscript automatically when typing the entire word and adding a space at the end, but trying to manually add the superscript from the character panel doesn't work. I would like to be able to apply superscript and subscript manually to any text characters and numbers, if possible. System: Windows 10 Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 The Typography features require support from the font that you've chosen, and functions like super- and subscript work only for those characters that the font supports. For other characters, take a look at the bottom of labeled "S" just above your red circle. You should find super- and subscript options in its pulldown that will work for all characters. For those options Publisher will "fake" the text position and size to make them look approximately right. -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_TM Posted May 16, 2019 Author Share Posted May 16, 2019 Thank you for your replies! I hadn't seen the Superscript/Subscript pulldown option. This works for me. Alfred 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielHX Posted June 2, 2019 Share Posted June 2, 2019 On 5/17/2019 at 12:33 AM, walt.farrell said: The Typography features require support from the font that you've chosen, and functions like super- and subscript work only for those characters that the font supports. For other characters, take a look at the bottom of labeled "S" just above your red circle. You should find super- and subscript options in its pulldown that will work for all characters. For those options Publisher will "fake" the text position and size to make them look approximately right. that's not the case, if it were why would it work perfectly in Affinity Designer & Photo version 1.6?? it should work regardless of, if the font supports it or not & it's not the font issue, it's Affinity's or it wouldn't work in 1.6 as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 2, 2019 Share Posted June 2, 2019 9 hours ago, VikasKumarX said: that's not the case, if it were why would it work perfectly in Affinity Designer & Photo version 1.6?? it should work regardless of, if the font supports it or not & it's not the font issue, it's Affinity's or it wouldn't work in 1.6 as well The handling in 1.7 has changed, and you will find that the 1.7 versions of Photo and Designer have been changed to behave the same as Publisher. The Serif team has explained that this change was done because the "faked" characters can never quite match the true typographic characters in form, and allowing a mix of faked and typographic forms can give visual imperfections that they decided they don't like. So, now, the typographic support works only for the characters where the font provides support. If you need other characters in super- and subscript forms, you can use the "S" box for all of them, which will ensure a consistent appearance. Or you can use "S" for some and Typographic for others, accepting any visual flaws if they don't bother you. Also, welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, ViasKumarX. shapelet 1 -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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