[XeTeX] Super/subscript

[Peter Baker]

Well, I can say right off that I'm glad it's you and not I setting this 
text! My knowledge of all things TeX is not as current as it could be, 
but I think you could get there by making a \newcommand that would put 
some sizing command inside a \raisebox. P.

Thomas Thackery wrote:
> I would be very grateful for a couple of examples.  I need to super & 
> subscripts when transcribing Akkadian. Attached is an example of what 
> I'm trying to achieve (I used a word processor for the example).  I'm 
> researching how to use smallcaps instead of the capital letters, but 
> you can see what I'm after.
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> Thomas
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> On May 27, 2007, at 3:22 AM, Peter Baker wrote:
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> Jonathan Kew wrote:
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>> On 27 May 2007, at 8:29 am, Thomas Thackery wrote:
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>>> I can not get fontspec to produce super- or subscripts (i.e. Superior
>>> and Inferior respectively in fontspec).  What is  missing from this
>>> command: {\fontspec[VerticalPosition=Superior]{Junicode}{ some text
>>> here }
>>>
>>>
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>> This is only expected to work if the font defines the "superiors"
>> feature for the particular characters in your text. I haven't looked
>> at Junicode lately, but some OpenType fonts define this only for a
>> small subset of the character set (e.g., only for the digits).
>>
>> JK
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> That's it: Junicode defines super- and subscripts only for digits and
> the few other characters in the Unicode Super- and Subscripts range, and
> those only in the Regular style, and in recent releases of the font. If
> you want more, you're better off scaling and then raising or lowering
> existing glyphs.
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> Peter Baker
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