Ubuntu Font Family

  1. Bug #683186
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 683186

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote : Re: [10 mod] super/subscript characters don't match OpenType subs and sups

Denis, thanks for the well-illustrated report -- and sorry for the multi-year delay!

As far as I can tell, when an app is not using the sups/subs tables, the position and size of superscript/subscript characters is up to the app. For example, this screenshot shows the same superscript characters in Firefox (data:text/html;charset=UTF-8,<p style="font-family:Ubuntu;font-size:70;">19<sup>19</sup>¹⁹</p>), LibreOffice, and AbiWord. They have different position and size in all three.

So unless there's something I'm missing, this is not a problem in the font itself. If you want a particular app to use sups/subs characters automatically when available, ask the developers of that app. (I doubt they would, though, because for any glyph that wasn't in the table, the app would have to fall back to algorithmic superscript/subscript, and the mixture would look bad.)