Subscripting and Superscripting

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Posted by cjgillis
2000-01-17 12:35:18

I just tried Inspiration 6. It is a very, nice outliner. Its strength is its ability to turn a simple outline into an impressive flowchart.

I tried Userland Frontier last month. It’s impressive too. I haven’t gotten the hang of it yet, but it builds a web site using the outline idea. Very neatly, too.

I tried More 1.1, 3.0 and 3.1. Nice, but not as powerful as Frontier or Inspiration 6, and not as easily managed as Acta, It does have more bells and whistles than Acta.

But where is an outliner including SUPERSCRIPTING AND SUBSCRIPTING?

How is a scholar supposed to organize his/her high school, college, or university math and science homework without this easy-to implement font-management, font-styling capability.

When a programmer has to handle superscripting or subscripting, all he has to do is subtract space from the bottom of the character and add it to the top of that character, for subscripting, and the reverse for superscripting.

I haven’t read ‘Inside Macintosh for years, so I don’t remember the Mac ROM font file and record names. But they exist, and they can be accessed with only a bit of math and research.

Carolyn Jane Gillis

I’d much rather have this capability built into Mac font information for every character in a Macintosh outline file, than almost anything more flashy.

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