How to keep superscript format when generating a table of contents

[patrickl92084288]

Hi,

I have a superscript ® in a title in a document that needs to be brought in the Table of contents. When I do generate the TOC, I cannot keep the superscript format in the TOC.

I could cheat and replace it manually, but there has to be a way it stays with those properties every time I regenerate the TOC.

Any idea how?

Regards.

[Bob_Niland · Accepted solution]

What version of FM?

What font?

There are two separate problems here:

1. If you are doing the super as a Character Format in the body files, that format needs to be in the Character Catalog for the TOC, or the formatting won't be applied.
2. If you do that, and get it displayed properly in the TOC, that will break the hypertext linking there.

The solution is usually to do the supers as natively-superscripted Unicode characters, and not Character Formats.

see: TOC link with a subscript character does not work in PDF

[patrickl92084288]

Thank you, Error7103!

It is FM 11.

The font is Arial in the TOC, but Verdana in the chapter itself.

I am trying to find the natively-superscripted Unicode R character and cannot find how to create it. I only get regular, non-superscript R.

[patrickl92084288]

Oh, and I forgot to mention I use FM unstructured, for this document.

[Bob_Niland]

re: I am trying to find the natively-superscripted Unicode R character and cannot find how to create it.

There doesn't appear to be one.

There is one for lowercase r: \u02B3

Resources:
Character Name Index
decodeunicode.org . Last Entries

[patrickl92084288]

To be more specific, I use FM 11.0.2.384

[Bob_Niland]

re: To be more specific, I use FM 11.0.2.384

For the purposes of this issue, it only mattered that it was FM 8.0 or later (nominal Unicode support).

I say "nominal", because FM does not yet fully support Unicode, in particular, arbitrary combining diacritics (which might not solve the superR problem, but would be useful for other random supers needed).

[patrickl92084288]

Thanks for all those details. You are indeed a super user!

[Bob_Niland]

Actually, looking back at your basenote with a magnifying glass, what you wanted was a registered trademark symbol, superscripted, and not a simple R.

(R) is \u00AE, but whether it is in-line or superscripted seems to vary with the font. The Unicode spec doesn't seem to define or prohibit that for that code point.

If you can find a visually close font for the TOC that supers it, that might solve the problem.