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Footnotes, and numbered list with character style on number: superscript not applied

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    • December 22, 2011 at 3:19 am #61293
      Rhiannon Miller
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      In CS5.5, I'm trying to create a paragraph style with 'numbering' which consists of a superscript letter.

      When I tell the numbering preferences to apply the appropriate character style (with superscript applied) to the numbering, the characters appear the correct size for superscript but sit on the baseline. Any idea what's going on?

      I'm doing this because I have footnotes which are referenced using a superscript letter, and my client wants the footnotes themselves to be marked with the letter in superscript as well. The footnote options don't allow any formatting of the footnote marker in the footnote, so I thought I could fake it using a numbered list. But this problem with superscript seems to be putting a stop to that.

      Am I going to have to number my footnotes manually? I'd really rather not.

    • December 22, 2011 at 3:24 am #61294
      Rhiannon Miller
      Member

      Aha. It will accept an OpenType superscript (though there isn't one in the font I'm using). But I can manually create a superscript-like effect by playing with font size and baseline shift, and that is also accepted.

      I often find that by posting a question about something it organises my thoughts and I quickly think of more potential solutions. Sometimes I even figure it out while I'm still writing the question! Does this happen to anyone else?

    • April 23, 2015 at 7:33 pm #74924
      AaronA
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      I’m pretty late to the conversation, Rhiannon, but I just ran into this same issue for the same reasons (superscript character style applied on auto-numbering in footnotes). I have no idea why the footnote #s take on the size of superscript but sit at the baseline. Same fix as you: new character style with some baseline shift applied.

      • April 24, 2015 at 4:11 am #74928
        Dwayne Harris
        Member

        Check your InDesign preferences (under “Advanced Type”).

        It sounds like positioning is at 0 instead of the default 33.3 percent).

    • April 25, 2015 at 9:57 am #74945
      AaronA
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      Good thought, Dwayne, but nope… the superscripts sit on the baseline only on the footnotes (which employ auto-numbering). Body text using superscript is fine.

      (I should add that the footnotes I’m referring to are not true ID footnotes; they are separated from body text in order to span 2 columns. Were they traditional footnotes there’d be no need to apply auto-numbering to the paragraph style.)

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