Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer: Fake vs. Real Superscripts in advanced fonts

Michael,

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look at it from that angle. It's such an 
obvious solution, I should have thought of it myself.

Virgil


On 12/6/2020 4:56 PM, Michael H wrote:
> What you're looking for is the autocorrect autoreplacements table.
>
> Tools --> Autocorrect --> Autocorrect Options.
>
> Turn off the fake ordinals on the Localized options tab.
>
> Then you can add entries in the Replace tab for the values you want, 
> like 1st -> 1ˢᵗ.
>
> There may be a way to introduce a character style method with this 
> table, so that copy/paste won't produce weirdness like the ordinal 
> glyphs might if the pasted field doesn't have ordinals in the active 
> font, but this is where you'd do it.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 2:56 PM Cuyahoga Falls <cuyfalls@hotmail.com 
> <mailto:cuyfalls@hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I have a question dealing with one of the advanced features of
>     today's
>     fonts: superscripts.
>
>     Using LO, one can automatically get ordinal numbers using the
>     Autocorrect feature. Type 1st and the "st" is automatically
>     converted to
>     a superscript. However, the superscript is an artificially created
>     superscript where the "st" is shrunken and raised. The stroke
>     weight is
>     correspondingly reduced resulting in a superscript that looks
>     disproportionately light when compared to other letters.
>
>     Today's modern fonts have better technology. Many fonts have built in
>     superscript glyphs that are properly sized and weighted. LO can
>     access
>     these features graphically through the "features" option in the
>     Format >
>     Character dialog (or "Font" tab in paragraph or character style
>     dialogs). If I click on the "features" option, and select
>     "superscript,"
>     LO will insert an additional code in the font name that will call the
>     properly designed glyphs. Thus, for example, "Sitka Text" becomes
>     "Sitka
>     Text:sups" and the superscript inserted is properly sized and
>     weighted.
>     I can get the same effect by typing the appropriate code in the font
>     name box rather than selecting from the graphical menu of optional
>     "features" in the character style dialog.
>
>     The typographic benefit is that, by selecting the advanced
>     superscript
>     of the font, one gets a true superscript that is not just shrunken
>     letters with reduced stroke weight. The stroke weight remains
>     consistent
>     with the weight of the normally sized font. As an OCD challenged font
>     freak, I prefer using the true superscripts rather than the
>     artificially
>     produced shrunken superscripts, which brings me to my question.
>
>     As far as I can tell, LO's automatic insertion of ordinal
>     superscripts
>     using the Autocorrect function always inserts artificially
>     generated and
>     shrunken superscripts rather than the true properly proportioned
>     superscripts contained within advanced fonts. Is there a way of
>     directing the Autocorrect function to use proper superscripts if they
>     are available rather than always creating artificially shrunken
>     ordinal
>     superscripts?
>
>     It's a bit of a pain to have to manually reformat each ordinal
>     number to
>     use the proper superscript. Even if I use character styles, that is
>     still more labor intensive than simply typing "1st" and spacebar and
>     getting the desired effect. If I could direct the Autocorrect
>     function
>     to select true superscripts rather than artificially generated
>     superscripts, that would be great.
>
>     For what it's worth, I'm using LO 6.3.4.2 on Windows 10.
>
>     Thanks.
>
>     Virgil
>
>
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