In NW X, presumably all features found in TextEdit and Okito Composer
will be available. So we'll have superscript. But what superscript? For
me, superscript of both TextEdit and Okito Comperser is unusable. So my
request described below. Maybe it's too late to submit a feature
request, but this is very important at least for me and it does not
look so difficult to be implemented.
Superscript is one of the rare features of Nisus Writer 5/6 which I
find disappointing. Point size is too small and the height too high.
Completely disproportional if you apply it on lowercase characters of
"Mme", "Mlle", etc. With TextEdit, the situation is worse. What does
superscript is just to raise the selected characters to a high position
which is too high without reducing font size. And Okito Composer has
not done anything original about superscript.
Of course, you can adjust font size and height manually. Well,
manually. By choosing menu itemes Lower and Raise repeatedly and by
changing font size. Too cumbersome, no? And you cannot save your
superscript style created with so much pain. Admittedly you can create
"M\lle/" from "M\me/" by Copy Font and Paste Font at least with
TextEdit -- as far as the point size of the base character remains
same. You'll have to do the cumbersome adjustment again if you want to
put "M\me/" in a subtitle which is in a larger point size.
So my request: ability to define a style by specifying font size and
height in relative proportion such as 2/3, 60%, etc. And the ability to
save styles thus defined as user defined styles and call it whenever
you need them. I think it's not so difficult to be implemented since a
cocoa rtf file stores font size and height as numeral values with tag
in its raw text and manipulating those values in a relative format
would not be a great deal.
What would be good with this hypothetic feature is that it will enable
you to define not only a superscript but also a certain number of
superscript for various purposes and/or fonts. And you can use that
single feature also for defining your subscript and small capital, so
it's very economic ;-)
A similar feature for adjusting the kerning would be good too. I'd like
to define it by the relative proportion. -1/2 of the font size or
something alike. This would make much easier to adjust the distance
between some Japanese parenthesis and punctuation marks.
Kino
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