RE: Fractions

[Simon Bate <sbate@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, variables are the way to go.  You can define separate character styles
for the numerator, slash, and denominator, then play with the spread to kern
the mess together nicely.  

When working with cookbooks and other texts that require many fractions, I
name my variables:
12-half
13-third
14-quarter
23-twothirds
34-theequarters
and so on.

To insert the fraction, all I have to type is <CTRL>+0, followed by the
two-digit fraction value, and <ENTER>.

Simon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Emory [mailto:danemory@primenet.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 11:30 AM
> To: Kelly Lawetz; Free Framers
> Subject: Re: Fractions
> 
> 
> At 12:35 PM 8/28/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hello Framers,
> >Do I need to create a fraction character tag for fractions 
> not included in
> >the Windows Character Map? If so, how do a create this tag?
> ================================================
> No, a character tag won't work. Variable definitions will.
> For example, the fraction 1/3 would have a variable 
> definition as follows
> 
> <FmSuperscript>1<DefaultParaFont>/<FmSubscript>3<DefaultParaFont>
> 
> Where:
> FmSuperscript is a character format that specifies superscript
> FmSubscript is a character format that specifies subscript
> 
> For fractions you have not defined as variables, you can
> tag the numerator with FmSuperscript  and the denominator with
> FmSubscript.
> 
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