Text styling expression: 2 styles in one layer

[Yoan Boisjoli]

Hey folks!

I’m currently creating a mogrt and I created a date text layer thats driven by a drop down menu for the months and a slider for the days. So far so good but I need to have access to superscript (which is not available in the text styling expressions yet) for whenever the date needs a “st” for 21st or a “nd” for 22nd. You get the idea.

I’m wondering if it’s possible to only have the “st” or “nd” be a smaller font size.

Whenever I try the style and setFontSize() it shows as September 21[object, object].

Any clues? 🤓

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Yoan – the questions is how do you plan to isolate suffixes and how they will be “decided” to use? Will it be done with expressions, by affecting last two chars of a number (st,nd,rd,th)? That will indicate an approach how to make this happen – either with styles, or with text animator & scale.

[Yoan Boisjoli]

Hey Thomas! Thanks for reply!

I was too much into wanting to use the text styling expressions that I forgot that I could just use an expression selector with some Regex!

I’ll just have the scale and position be triggered and it will do the trick!

Thanks! Have a good day!

[Andrei Popa]

Hi Tomas. As far as you know, is it possible to modify just a part of a paragraph via expressions using style?

[Kevin Camp]

It would be great if you could.

I had hoped that styles would work that way, but when I’ve tried to achieve something similar, I found the same issue that Yoan ran into, and then reverted to a method using text animators or separate layers and sourceRectAtTime().

[Fabrice Leconte]

Try to find a good font, it works with Arial

function getOrdinalNum(n) {
  return n + (n > 0 ? ['ᵗʰ', 'ˢᵗ', 'ⁿᵈ', 'ʳᵈ'][(n > 3 && n < 21) || n % 10 > 3 ? 0 : n % 10] : '');
}
d = getOrdinalNum(effect('Slider Control')('Slider'));
m = Intl.DateTimeFormat('en', { month: 'long' }).format(effect('Dropdown Menu Control')('Menu'));
'Roboto font: '+ m + ' '+ d

[Yoan Boisjoli]

Wow that’s pretty clever Fabrice! Merci!