Subscript OR Superscript in Crystal 11

[krishnappan]

Hi All,

I am fetching some dynamic data from the database, need one of the fields to be a superscript.

Say field1 immediately followed by field2 as superscript.
Like Field1-Field2valueinsuperscript.

I tried using formula, HTML format but it does not work for subscript and superscript. When i give <b>hello</b> then its printed in bold. But when i give <sup>hello<sup> it prints as normal text.

Positioning the text field with small font is not an option as it has to immediately follow the first field.

Any help is gr8ly appreciated.

Thanks!!

 

[Madawc]

You can put two Formula Fields into a single Text Object, and then give them different font sizes etc. Does that help?

Madawc Williams (East Anglia, UK). Using Windows XP & Crystal 10

 

[lbass]

I haven't been able to get the HTML tags for superscript to work either. You could uses the following, but I'm not sure other numbers are available for the superscript:

totext({table.number},0,"") + chr(178)//chr(185) = 1, chr(178) = 2, chr(179) = 3, chr(186) = 0

If you have a field for the superscript, you could use:

totext({table.number},0,"")+
(
select {table.superscript}
case 0 : chr(186)
case 1 : chr(185)
)//etc.

-LB

 

[krishnappan]

is there a table that covers all numbers and character values for super script?

How about sub scripts?

 

[CR85user]

I just chucked in a string in a formula as:

//{@Testtext}
'Test ^Test Test _Test'

Then right click -> Format field -> Paragraph formatting -> Text interpretation -> HTML Text

It didn't throw an error at the input and seemed to format accordingly.

I will have more of a play though.

'J

 

[CR85user]

Ah - tried it 1st time in 8.5 and seemed fine but XI doesn't do anything with the tags as you said.

I will test some more.

'J

 

[CR85user]

Found a previous post pointing to several KB articles which cover all the points raised:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1081547

It is a shame that they didn't just implement it properly.

'J