It's just available in some programs and not others, not system-wide. It just sucks because you can do it in both Adobe InDesign and Photoshop using Command + Shift + (+).but not Illustrator. The day Photoshop has superior type editing functionality than Illustrator, well, maybe the Adobe Illustrator team is just slacking. It's not like it's some unusual request.

Apply subscript format Convert selected text to the subscript format in which the text becomes smaller than non-selected text. This is useful for scientific text and mathematics. How to Use this Shortcut List: + Indicates to hold the previous key, while pressing the next key. > Indicates to tap the previous key, releasing it before pressing the next key.

I'm 100 percent positive you used to be able to do it in older Illustrator versions. Mac doesn t recognize black magic mini recorder. Currently the only way to do it is manually in the character palette options menu.really blows. It's just available in some programs and not others, not system-wide. It just sucks because you can do it in both Adobe InDesign and Photoshop using Command + Shift + (+).but not Illustrator. The day Photoshop has superior type editing functionality than Illustrator, well, maybe the Adobe Illustrator team is just slacking. It's not like it's some unusual request.

I'm 100 percent positive you used to be able to do it in older Illustrator versions. Currently the only way to do it is manually in the character palette options menu.really blows. There are really several aspects to this and therefore several possible solutions. Areas of concern: • Typing in applications- document composition applications like Pages, Word. Spreadsheets and other specific apps like Excel, the various Adobe suites, and others. You probably guessed that each app or suite will have potentially it's unique way of handling super (and sub-) scripting, which is what you are referring to.

• Typing in text apps, note-taking apps. • Typing in specific others like Terminal, Messaging, Email that are more closely associated with the OS and tied to specific OS character settings. • System wide setting of specific character combinations like 1st, 2nd, etc.

These might also affect Web browser apps like the one I'm using now. Possible solutions: • Set System-wide superscripts. You would have to force superscripts for '1st, 2nd.' Or for the last numeric character typed before a space to force those following specific two letters as superscripts WHERE THEY OCCUR.

I actually had this working, sorta nicely at one time, but then it stopped. Windows does this rather elegantly somehow. I still seem to have a character substitution in place for 0ᵀᴴ (e.g., 100th is typed as 0ᵀᴴ and put the '10' or other characters before it), as an example.

You would also have to do this for common fractions like, '½, ¼, etc.' Mac's error correcting schema seems to occur automatically for specific combinations. Uncommon fractions would require manual intervention.

Three (or more) character fractions E.G., '13/16, 5/16, 3/32'. Clearly, the characters exist in the table, somewhere. • Manually in specific applications. In ADDITION to doing the above apps tend to control the characters' use and do not follow the system settings. You would have to use a specific keystroke for each program for that.

The autocorrect or system settings might work sporadically for this or learn it and work great. I have had limited success. It would be nice to have a common solution that works across ALL apps and scenarios. It doesn't seem possible in Mac OS or at least it's unreliable as it is now or has been in OS X. Click to expand.FYI, there is. Try the $4.99 aText.app by Tran Ky Nam (). It works as text substitution in any app or limited to specific apps, as you wish.

It far exceeds (and replaces) the supplied substitutions in System Preferences>Keyboard>Text. As example, typing a number '2', the character 'st' followed by a space substitutes 2ᴺᴰ (which are the Unicode superscripted upper case characters).