text format question

I ran across the following recently and the way my mind works I wondered how
this would be best achieved in PageStream. I can think of a way to do it, but
I wonder what others think.

"Following an old, general astronomical practice, small superior symbols are
placed immediately above the decimal point, not after the last decimal."

An example is then given to illustrate the point, but quite simply in 28.5793
degrees the degree symbol is placed directly above the decimal point without
any apparent effect on spacing.

Unless I'm missing something to do this requires either an overstrike or a
modified symbol. To me the superior solution would be an overstrike, but I
don't think PgS supports them as such.

Experimentation suggests that with 12 point Times New Roman reducing the
spacing between the degree symbol and the decimal point by 30% is about right
but I would hope there to be a better way?

Tim Doty

P.S. for the curious the quote comes from an introductory note
to "Astronomical Algorithms" by Jean Meeus

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Tim Doty wrote:
> I ran across the following recently and the way my mind works I wondered how
> this would be best achieved in PageStream. I can think of a way to do it, but
> I wonder what others think.
>
> "Following an old, general astronomical practice, small superior symbols are
> placed immediately above the decimal point, not after the last decimal."
>
> An example is then given to illustrate the point, but quite simply in 28.5793
> degrees the degree symbol is placed directly above the decimal point without
> any apparent effect on spacing.
>
>; Unless I'm missing something to do this requires either an overstrike or a
> modified symbol. To me the superior solution would be an overstrike, but I
> don't think PgS supports them as such.
>
> Experimentation suggests that with 12 point Times New Roman reducing the
> spacing between the degree symbol and the decimal point by 30% is about right
> but I would hope there to be a better way?
>;
> Tim Doty
>;
> P.S. for the curious the quote comes from an introductory note
> to "Astronomical Algorithms" by Jean Meeus
>
>
I took a quick look through the unicode character set and did not find
any such precomposed glyph. It would have been easy to do this as a
ligature. Otherwise, using character spacing or kerning is the only way
to do this in PageStream.

I suppose a application specific unicode value could be used. It would
not be too hard to display this in PageStream by using existing characters.

Deron

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On Sunday 16 September 2007, PageStream Support wrote:
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>; I took a quick look through the unicode character set and did not find
>; any such precomposed glyph. It would have been easy to do this as a
> ligature. Otherwise, using character spacing or kerning is the only way
> to do this in PageStream.
>
> I suppose a application specific unicode value could be used. It would
> not be too hard to display this in PageStream by using existing characters.

Thanks for answering my curiousity. If I ever actually need to do this I'll go
ahead and use spacing/kerning to achieve it.

Thanks,

Tim Doty

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