I would like to be able to type the date so that it shows as a number with a 'rd', 'st', 'th' in small letters on the top right hand side. Instead it just comes up with 1st, 2nd, etc. Can this be done?
Thanks anyone
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Thank you for taking the time to respond.
HOWEVER - the original question was, and also my above question is - in relation to DATES - namely, changing 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc .... into superscript suffixes.
IF we were to attempt to do this in the function System Preferences > Keyboard > Text - using "replace" / "with" - you would have to set up well over 100 of them - because I have ALREADY TRIED.
And setting up 1st only works with "1st" - it does not with with 21st, 31st, 41st, etc ....
So, you would have to set this up for every single number in the world. Not very convenient.
The function - System Preferences > Keyboard > Text - is only really designed to work for things like(tm), (c), etc .... and also for fractions like 1/2, 1/4, 1/3.
it does not really work for numerical suffixes in the DATES context.
Actually there are Opentype superscript numerals you could use in the auto substition, you'll have to hunt for them.
The problem is the intelligence to apply them isn't there, you still need to set up the basic ten variations (not every single number in the world):
xxxx0th
xxxx1st
xxxx2nd
xxxx3rd
xxxx4th
xxxx5th
xxxx6th
xxxx7th
xxxx8th
xxxx9th
Peter
PS I can find references to ordinals on the internet but no Unicode addresses, nor do they appear in the Special Character maps. The Spanish forms of 23ª and 24º seem to be common but not the English.
The Shortcut Keys work for pages and Numbers but not on the Apple Mail. Is there a way I can configure supercripts under System Preferences >>Keyboard>>Text? Am using OSX 10.9 (Mavericks)
This is an option you can set in Pages > Preferences > Auto-correction. Check the box next to superscript numerical suffixes. You will have to type a space for it to take effect.
Pages 5.0 uses the systems auto correction feature. go System preferences > Keyboard > Text
Here is an image of the Swedish version.
Select the st, nd, rd, th:
Menu > Format > Font > Baseline > Superscript
Peter
Thank you Peggy ... perfect, just what I wanted!
How do you do this in PAGES 5.0 ?? (the latest version as of 27 Oct 2013.
The old preferences function seems to be GONE !!
JSKC
Did you get a way out? am also experiencing the same issue.
Very frustrating
There are short cut keys to do the superscript and subscript. You use the same shor cut to get back to normal character. Look in the menus or in the Help online for Short cut keys.
You should ask in the Maverick forum but it should work if there is a menu option named superscript and subscript. Check if there is.
Help to type a date
