topic Re: Adding attributes with subscript or superscript text? in Mapping Questions

Adding attributes with subscript or superscript text?

petegillard — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 14:51:14 GMT

is there a way to add attributes in a feature class with subscript or superscript characters? It's geology 'stuff' with attributes like lsb'p'. where the 'p' is subscript. i know it can be done with labels, but am trying to add it in a feature class table.

Thanks in advance for any ideas,

Pete

Re: Adding attributes with subscript or superscript text?

DanPatterson_Retired — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 19:44:46 GMT

In python 3.x... it is all Unicode, but you need to know your encoding codes

"10{}".format('\u00B2')  # superscript 2

'10²'‍‍‍‍‍‍

https://docs.python.org/3/howto/unicode.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_superscripts

But don't get excited ... it works in scripts when printing, but I will let you do a test in featureclass tables.

You can try the ALT number on your numeric keypad approach to get some of them

Re: Adding attributes with subscript or superscript text?

petegillard — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 19:14:46 GMT

Thanks very much,

but I couldn't get it to read it as 'code'. as a text field, it just calculated it verbatim.

Re: Adding attributes with subscript or superscript text?

DanPatterson_Retired — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 19:17:54 GMT

yes,,, it won't appear until printed... try the ALT num pad alt key, number sequence from your numeric key pad... ie ALT 248 is the degree sign

Re: Adding attributes with subscript or superscript text?

petegillard — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 19:47:30 GMT

Thank you!

Actually, turns out the x format worked. It hadn't occurred to me that it would label properly, though not showing up in the table that way.................(?!)

thanks!

Pete

Re: Adding attributes with subscript or superscript text?

MichaelHuber — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 15:28:16 GMT

I am also looking for an answer to this. x wont help me as it will make the whole attribute a subscript. I am looking for the attribute to retain its subscript / superscript properties. For example, I need to label points using chemical formulas that have both subscripts and superscripts... And these chemical formulas are in the attribute table of my shape/feature

Re: Adding attributes with subscript or superscript text?

DanPatterson_Retired — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 17:31:56 GMT

They won't stay in the table as superscripts and subscripts. The best you can do is produce an html-like string so that it can be printed as such

Re: Adding attributes with subscript or superscript text?

MichaelHuber — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 18:59:28 GMT

I was afraid of that... darn. I have far too much data to do it all manually though html or unicode.

Maybe ESRI will address that in a future version? As I know Arc is widely used among scientists and I can't be the only person with this issue.

Thanks for getting back to me Dan!!

Re: Adding attributes with subscript or superscript text?

petegillard — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 19:18:31 GMT

HI Michael,

Dan helped me with this awhile back, and mine did work. If i put H uBPx, in the field

it did label as "HuBPx" in the map, just looked like code in the table. ?

Re: Adding attributes with subscript or superscript text?

MichaelHuber — Tue, 04 Sep 2018 18:51:40 GMT

I was able to find an answer to my question if anyone else is having this issue: https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/289694/labeling-using-chemical-formulas-with-subscripts-and-a-mask-in-arcmap-10-…