How the hecky-thump do you creat superscript -rd and -th?

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solusuola
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How the hecky-thump do you creat superscript -rd and -th?

Post by solusuola »

Hi,

I've just jumped ship from Openoffice and love Mellel. One thing I miss though is the autoformatting of -th and -rd for dates and ordinal numbers.

I can't seem to find a way to do it in Mellel.

I assume it's possible. How?

Thanks in advance.
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Post by rpcameron »

Use an OpenType font that has support for Ordinals. Then, the -rd and -th will automatically be placed in superscript. However, this only applies to fonts that have OpenType tables for Ordinals. You can mimic this behavior on your own by creating a variation that puts the characters in superscript.
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Post by solusuola »

rpcameron wrote:Use an OpenType font that has support for Ordinals. Then, the -rd and -th will automatically be placed in superscript. However, this only applies to fonts that have OpenType tables for Ordinals. You can mimic this behavior on your own by creating a variation that puts the characters in superscript.
Thanks. The ever-dependable Redlers got back to me (תודה רבה אורי) with that too saying that the autoformating should be available soon. Now I just write 3XXX and do a batch search and replace at the end.
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