June 25, 2003 at 10:12 am
Anyone know how to superscript a registration mark in SQL server? I have data in SQL that contains the registration mark but the registration mark is the same size as the rest of the text in the field. I need it to be superscripted.
June 30, 2003 at 12:00 pm
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July 1, 2003 at 7:30 am
To the best of my knowledge, SQL Server stores plain, ordinary text. Any deviations from such (bold, italics, etc.) has to be handled by the application displaying the text.
If your displaying application can handle superscripts, then simply include the data it needs to do this.
If you're going to the web, it's fairly simple; the mark-up is <sup>(R)</sup>.
Note that, in some fonts, the registration mark might not be the same character as you have stored. Again, for HTML display, you're almost always better off going with the character entity, which is ®.
For proprietary apps, the details may be significantly different. You might consider taking the entire text block and converting it into an image, so formatting would always be what you want. Of course, changing the text becomes much more of a chore then.
If this is a legal requirement, you might be able to include an image at the bottom of the page stating trademark data, and forget about the (R) in the text.
Just a few suggestions, hope one of them is some help.
RD Francis
R David Francis
July 1, 2003 at 9:19 am
After a day of messing around, I was able to determine that the application that tied to the database (Label Printing Application) used Arial as it's font for printing. I was able to edit the Arial font and make the registration mark smaller and higher. Works great, now I just have to install the font on a bunch of workstations.
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