Registered trademark symbol in superscript style (automatically)

[Cad81]

Hi, i use a lot this symbol ( ® ) in after effects. In other basic application, even notepad, if i type this symbol, it is recognized natively with superscript style. In after effects instead, it appear as standard size character.

Is there any options about this?

If not, an expression to apply to layer text would be great. I tried with "sourceText.replace", but it replace with the same, non superscript, character.

I use also mogrph files in premiere, so i have not access to text formatting options for a single char

Thanks

[Airweb_AE · Accepted solution]

I tried using the text animators (scale and position) with an expression selector, but there seems to be an issue with positioning the symbols, for no reason you need to duplicate the animator and remove the scale animator or enable Per-Character 3D.

Expression selector Amount:

text.sourceText.charAt(textIndex - 1).match(/(®|©)/) ? 100 : 0

Position:

[value[0], -sourceRectAtTime().height / 2]

[Cad81]

Thank you Airweb, but in my case the are some problem with this solution:

1- The ® could be at any point in the phrase, not always outside the boundingbox

2- Usually i have more than one symbol (they are like disclaimer text with lots of brand, ecc)

Time ago, i created a script that add a text animator for each symbol it found in the text layer, and apply to all the same position and scale i set manually. But i can't use it, 'cause i create mograph template to use in premiere pro.

If i'm not wrong, adobe recently added the possibility to edit, via expression, the text formatting options but it seems like I haven't seen the "superscript" option. 

Anyway, thanks for you time, appreciated! 🙂

[Cad81]

I'm trying to workaround the problem with expression and text animator. My idea for mogrt is to add 4 text animator (rarely i need more than 3 symbols) and expose position and scale property on the panel.
But i think this cannot work, cause the for loop always return the last character (in fact, it works only if the symbol is at the end).

I added this code to range selector start and a similar one to range selector end (i+1), to isolate the symbol

var text = text.sourceText;


for(i=0; i<text.length; i++)
	{
		if (text.value[i].match("®"))
		{
			i;
		}
	else 0;
	}

Is there a way to maintain the value of "i" when it match the char? I suppose not, using expressions 

[Airweb_AE · Accepted solution]

I don't know, the expression I gave you yesterday matches all occurrences of the registered trademark symbol. I updated the expression to make it work with multiline text.

text.sourceText.replace(/\r/g,'').charAt(textIndex - 1).match(/®/) ? 100 : 0

[Cad81]

Ok, i'm stupid, i thought the expression was doing another thing, sorry! 🙂
It works perfectly, thank you!