UILabel and superscript

Question

Hi

I have two strings:

• a variable length piece of text
• another string with numbers that point to a reference

In my view, the first piece of text is displayed in a UILabel, I adjust the size of the label to accomodate the size of the text. This means I cannot just place another UILabel on the screen, at least not without repositioning it...somehow.

I need to be able to put the second piece of text so it appears to be at the end of the sentence - and superscripted

I really have no idea how to achieve this!

Answer 1

The simplest way would be to use two different UILabels. A better solution might be to draw both strings using -drawInRect:withFont: in a custom view's -drawRect: method.

Answer 2

My rather dodgy solution was to enter unicode characters for the superscripted numbers.

Not a great solution but it worked.