On Feb 20, 2014, at 9:59 PM, Anne Cartwright <[email protected]> wrote:

> Any ides how to get Pages to make fractions like 13/16 so that it all fits 
> within one line spacing. Pages does halves, firths, eights, but not sixteenth 
> that I can figure out.

Many of the Unicode fonts have special characters for the numerator and 
denominator of fractions. If you're not seeing them, maybe you don’t  have your 
preferences set up to do so. In version 5 of Pages, go to Edit>Special 
Characters… Click the gear wheel on the upper left of the pane to bring up the 
Unicode preferences. Under Customize List, make sure the Digits and Digits - 
All are selected. Then, if you scroll down in the Unicode selection pane, there 
will be a pretty complete set of fraction-building characters in the Digits and 
Digit - All categories.

Also, there are many fonts customized for building fractions. Google is your 
friend here.

If you find yourself using fractions a lot, it might be better to switch word 
processors to something with more capability like Nisus or Mellel. (If you're 
really serious about such things, LaTeX is the best, but has a steep learning 
curve.)



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