----- Original Message ----- From: "Lawrence Lustig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 8:49 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: SubScripting
> > and > > Like Version 6.5++ and its > > predecessors, the ordinary edit controls do NOT > > support Subscripting or > > Superscripting. > > > > In order to do this, the basic control used has to > > have some text formatting > > ability (able to interpret embedded characters to > > readable text) on its' own. > > Sami's suggestion should work fine. The idea is to > create a new, small, character in the font that will > appear to be subscripted. Most Windows fonts already > contain the superscript character (for exponential > notation). The subscript character should look even > better, because you have the descender area to play > around with (meaning the 2 can really descend below > the H and the O on either side, rather than simply be I was assuming that H2O was just used as an example and that the requirement was for actual Sub/Super Scripting. > a tiny numeral with its top flush with the top of the > capital letters). > > The trick, of course, is knowing how to create a new > font, or finding one that has the subscript 2 in place > of some other high order character that you know you > won't use. > -- > Larry > --- RBASE-L ================================================ TO POST A MESSAGE TO ALL MEMBERS: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don't use any of these words as your Subject: INTRO, SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, SEARCH, REMOVE, SUSPEND, RESUME, DIGEST, RESEND, HELP) ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: INTRO ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: UNSUBSCRIBE ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: SEARCH-n (where n is the number of days). In the message body, place any text to search for. ================================================
