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How can I use A-OTF RyuminPro ExBold to achieve 1-100 circular footnotes?

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August 3, 2023
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The customer has specified that they want to use the font "A-OTF RyuminPro ExBold" to implement footnotes of 1-100. What is the best way to do this?

I know the circled numbers from 1 to 26, which can be mapped using A-Z26 letters.

Someone also implemented a 1-999 circle font using another font, and he used regular

(（\d+）)|(\[\d+\])|(\{\d+\})|(<\d+>)

The CircledNumbersHei.otf font was called and the text display method was limited.

How can I use A-OTF RyuminPro ExBold to achieve 1-100 circular footnotes?

At the same time, it does not affect the structure of the article, and there should be correlation between footnotes.

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Hi @dublove, the best option I can think of would be to take advantage of OpenType font substitution rules which can naturally combine multiple characters into a single glyph. An example is the free font Numberpile which comes in normal and reversed circled numbers.

You can set up the automatic footnote formatting to be bracketed by parentheses, which triggers the font's opentype substitutions. The footnote paragraph is set with a nested style that styles any text before the first tab in the Numberpile font. See attached demo document that shows a way to set it up. And some screenshots to give the idea, too.

- Mark

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Thank you.

I understand a little.

What are the rules for OpenType?

I originally thought it was: () The internal code value of 66 happens to be "circle 66"

But it doesn't seem like it is.

Why is the "A-OTF RyuminPro ExBold" font not acceptable?

Perhaps it requires a combination of character symbols and numbers

Robert at ID-Tasker

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Font needs to support "substitution rules" - InDesign can't do this on its own.

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I tried Zapf Dingbats which has a small group of circled numbers and tried to use the Footnote Reference Number in Text and a character style but that doesn't work. I think the built-in InDesign feature expects that the Unicode glyph for the font be a real number.

Unless someone like Peter Kahrel has developed a script for that, it cannot be done. That's probably your best hope.