So for context, I asked first at the Mac Forums, who kicked me, because I was using Tahoe, to the developer forums.
Times New Roman does not have superscript for 0-9 on numbers built in.
I need 0-9 because I’m trying to write Chinese Pinyin for some dialects that need it. (In this case Hakka, but others as well) Zia³po² for example.
TNS only has superscript for 0-3, but Cantonese has tones 1-5.
The declination for when TNS fails is to make the next font Lucida Grande. TT This is a san-serif font that doesn’t look a lot like Times New Roman. The Unicode font I want it to select instead is EB Garamond (free from Google). Unfortunately, Times New Roman is industry standard.
The Mac forums said one could program a declination into the core programming per program/app, but it’s outside of the user’s power.
Yes, I’m aware this is super low priority, but I’d still like this, or for someone to make a unicode TNS font that is automatically loaded into all computers that does have 0-9 superscript, mostly to be able to render Chinese dialects and math correctly in books. Also, how do people submit math manuscripts when they can’t do superscripts?
I know someone is going to lecture at me something like, “But Scrivener can do superscripts!” And I’m going to point out that styles erases all superscripts and doing that is painful. Plus it doesn’t render correctly when I do text substitutions (via System Settings). Because while I have some basics of Chinese, I don’t remember all of the pinyin, so it’s easier to do a substitution on the fly from text substitutions. `Ziapo → Zia³po² is much easier to type.
Also, why is TNS racist. 
What does TNS have against 4-9 superscripts anyway?
