superscript/subscript off shortcuts

Hi alivation

Welcome to the forum. 🙂

You are aware that unicode fonts actually include ordinals as characters which would not change your text styling?

+Menu > Insert > Special Characters…+

You could keep the characters in your Special Character favorites and leave the Special Characters window open to input them.

Peter

Hello

The exponent or subscript shortcuts behave as switches

Trigger cmd + control + the + key, you will get an exponent character
Trigger it one more time, the exponent character will be replaced by the standard one.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 6 juillet 2010 07:45:58

See:

http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?t=167&sid=eb29a545107c a4216f7302e12a670ea3&mforum=iworktipsntrick

+Menu > Edit > Special Characters > View > Code Tables > Unicode > 00002070 Superscripts and Subscripts > double click on the character you want to insert+

To add to your favorites:

+Characters window > Select the unicode glyph > click on little gear at bottom left of window > Add to favorites+

To use favorites:

+Characters window > View > Code Tables > Favorites > double click on glyph+

You may be able to get a better method with [PopChar|http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7813/popchar]

Peter

Hi peter

Of course, we may use unicode superscripts but, in many fonts some of them aren't embedded and they are grabbed from an other font.
In such case, the result is awful and using the ones created thru the Format menu give a better result.

Even if the result was correct, users are free to use the superscripts created thru the Format menu.
So, it seems logical to respond to the asked question.

If the user insert Unicode superscripts, it's clear that he will not have to use the Format menu (or a linked shortcut) to revert to standard character.

At this time, the true question is :
why, at least for one asker, the official shortcut is not working ?

Maybe it's what Tom pointed : if the shortcut is issued on a keyboard with no numerical pad, getting the character + requires that we press the shift key. At least it's the way French keyboard behave.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 6 juillet 2010 12:29:41

fruhulda wrote:
Luckily we don't need the Shift key to get the + on a swedish keyboard. 🙂

Luckily, on French keyboard we don't need to press the Shift key to get the = character.

As each key is able to issue at least two chars, each layout has pros and cons 😉

As I always bought a full keyboard with numerical keypad,I have no problem with digits or with : =, /, *, -, + keys.

In fact I have one short keyboard because when I received my iMac, I was surprised because the box contained the short Bluetooth keyboard and the full keyboard which I asked was delivered in an other box.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 6 juillet 2010 13:02:03

alivation

I presume the New Zealand keyboard is the same as the Australian keyboard which is actually the American keyboard.

Assuming that is what you are using then the keyboard shortcut is:

Subscript: +control command -+

Superscript: +control shift command =+ because the + is uppercase.

Both toggle on my Australian keyboard.

You are not using the British keyboard by any chance?

Peter

Yvan

It is advisable to use the Unicode characters as super/subscripting is a character styling change and subject to being lost if overstyled with something else.

Peter

aliviation - you can +use the same shortcut keys+ to turn the superscript off! It is just too bad that it doesn't say so in the help.

The superscript cmd cntrl+"" doesn't work at all.

Have you been using the Shift key to produce the "+"?

Luckily we don't need the Shift key to get the + on a swedish keyboard. 🙂

For what it's worth, Mariner Write, my favorite word processor, supports text superscripts and subscripts as styles.