PoloSpace Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 Whenever I tried making any text become a superscript, nothing happens. Weird enough, when I subscript the word "Healthcare", only the "e", and "a" becomes a subscript. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted August 15, 2019 Staff Share Posted August 15, 2019 Hi PoloSpace, The superscript/subscript buttons in the Character panel only work with fonts that support/has the respective glyphs as designed by the font author. For text that don't have them use the S field from the Positioning and Transform section right above in the same panel which will scale a reposition the letter to simulate superscript/subscript. Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonresidentalien Posted September 15, 2019 Share Posted September 15, 2019 Having the same issue here, and I feel like the super- and sub-script feature used to work just fine before one of the more recent updates. As a scientist, I use a lot of sub and superscript so fixing this in one of the next updates would be highly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 15, 2019 Share Posted September 15, 2019 35 minutes ago, nonresidentalien said: Having the same issue here, and I feel like the super- and sub-script feature used to work just fine before one of the more recent updates. As a scientist, I use a lot of sub and superscript so fixing this in one of the next updates would be highly appreciated. It would have worked differently in Designer or Photo in 1.6, where Serif was willing to create faux subscript and superscript characters automatically for those characters without font support. They improved 1.7, to improve typographic appearance of text, and all the 1.7 applications with consistently in this area. If you think 1.7 worked differently then you were probably using a different font, with more built-in characters with the typographic features. Quote -- 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonresidentalien Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 4 hours ago, walt.farrell said: If you think 1.7 worked differently then you were probably using a different font, with more built-in characters with the typographic features. Thanks for pointing the changes regarding the 'faux subscript'. It is not that I would not appreciate proper typesetting. However, when preparing figures for scientific journals there are strict restrictions as to which fonts are allowed. If standard fonts such as Arial and consorts do not cut it, things are going to be difficult and tedious for us. I think one should have the option to allow for faux subscript when typographic accuracy is not an issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 52 minutes ago, nonresidentalien said: I think one should have the option to allow for faux subscript when typographic accuracy is not an issue. You have that, by using the Positioning and Transform portion of the Character panel, rather than the Typography portion. The "S:" box will let you select faux super- or subscripts for any characters in the font. Quote -- 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonresidentalien Posted September 16, 2019 Share Posted September 16, 2019 I did not know that. This was very helpful, thanks Lars walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenmcd Posted September 17, 2019 Share Posted September 17, 2019 On 9/15/2019 at 5:15 PM, nonresidentalien said: However, when preparing figures for scientific journals there are strict restrictions as to which fonts are allowed. Could you please be specific about which fonts you are required to use. Perhaps it would be useful to review the actual subscript/superscript features of those fonts. And also scientific inferiors, ordinals, tabular figures, etc. I am already working on this for another project and many of the fonts may be the same ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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