Superscript and subscript font usage

[Guest]

I have engineers whom use the superscript quite often in their data within
their tables. Is there any way to use this font capabilities within the
tables so that it will show up on the report?

Thank you.
JudyT

 

[Douglas J Steele]

You'd need to store their data as RTF (Rich Text Format), rather than
straight text, and display the data using an RTF control.

Stephen Lebans has a free RTF control at http://www.lebans.com/richtext.htm

 

[Guest]

Ok, great, now...what does that do to any other controls on my form, reports,
tables?

 

[Douglas J Steele]

It needn't do anything to the other controls (other than those controls that
are bound to the field that's going to contain the RTF data)

 

[Rick Brandt]

Ok, great, now...what does that do to any other controls on my form,
reports, tables?

Beware that if you use a Rich Text control then you will be saving Rich Text
control tags into your field. Consider the following two lines of text and
imagine the second one being stored in Rich Text as bold face.

normal text
bold text

In your table you will actually be storing something like...

normal text
\b bold text \b0

Those tags that start and end the bold setting will be visible in your data
and on your forms and reports anytime you try to use a control that is not a
Rich Text ActiveX control. Those tags would affect searching and joining on
that field as well.

Overall not a good idea just to support the occassional superscript.

 

[Douglas J Steele]

Beware that if you use a Rich Text control then you will be saving Rich Text
control tags into your field. Consider the following two lines of text and
imagine the second one being stored in Rich Text as bold face.

normal text
bold text

In your table you will actually be storing something like...

normal text
\b bold text \b0

Those tags that start and end the bold setting will be visible in your data
and on your forms and reports anytime you try to use a control that is not a
Rich Text ActiveX control. Those tags would affect searching and joining on
that field as well.

Overall not a good idea just to support the occassional superscript.

No argument from me on that, Rick! (Guess I should have mentioned the
caveats...)

 

[Guest]

Okay, great...is there a way to show this in the report area?

 

[Rick Brandt]

Okay, great...is there a way to show this in the report area?

Show what in the report area? Rich Text? You can use an RTF ActiveX control on
reports, but there are more problems there. They don't do CanGrow and CanShrink
as well as standard controls. I'm not familiar enough with Stephan Lebans'
control to know how well his handles that, but I know the one from Microsoft has
problems in that area.