RE: How do you get fractions in FM 12?

2014-12-10 Thread Grant Hogarth
raig Subject: How do you get fractions in FM 12?   I have text that expresses one-and-one-half as 1-1/2, which could be interpreted as 1-to-1/2. I would like to be able to show the fraction without the hy

Re: How do you get fractions in FM 12?

2014-12-09 Thread Mike Wickham
LeftAlt+0189 is the ½ character in most fonts. Mike Wickham On 12/9/2014 10:12 AM, tom.beiswen...@emhartglass.com wrote: I have text that expresses one-and-one-half as 1-1/2, which could be interpreted as 1-to-1/2. I would like to be able to show the fraction without the hyphen. __

Re: How do you get fractions in FM 12?

2014-12-09 Thread Patrick Edwards
If you're using a typeface that has these glyphs, you can use the superscript 0-9, subscript 0-9, and fraction slash to build fractions. This eliminates some of the pain of changing font sizes and positioning, and the fractions you build look exactly the same as the thirds, fourths, and eighths gl

RE: How do you get fractions in FM 12?

2014-12-09 Thread Steve Pawlowskis
lass.com Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 11:12 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: How do you get fractions in FM 12? I have text that expresses one-and-one-half as 1-1/2, which could be interpreted as 1-to-1/2. I would like to be able to show the fraction without the hyphen. Tom Be

RE: How do you get fractions in FM 12?

2014-12-09 Thread tom . beiswenger
From: Craig Ede To: framers Date: 12/09/2014 12:05 PM Subject:RE: How do you get fractions in FM 12? Sent by:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com I keep these characters (in the font we use for body text) in a text box on the reference page and cut&paste a

RE: How do you get fractions in FM 12?

2014-12-09 Thread Craig Ede
I keep these characters (in the font we use for body text) in a text box on the reference page and cut&paste as needed. ¼ ½ ¾ ⅓ ⅔ ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞ 16ths are another problem. Craig Subject: How do you get fractions in FM 12? I have text that expresses one-and-one-half as 1-1/2, which coul

Re: How do you get fractions in FM 12?

2014-12-09 Thread Ed Nodland
Tom, I found this list of unicode characters online at http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/bylanguage/mathchart.html#fractions The problem is there is not a special character for all possible fractions. So if you intermix the styles in the same sections and have 3-3/16 with 4⅔ it becomes more confusin

RE: How do you get fractions in FM 12?

2014-12-09 Thread Ann Zdunczyk
ject: How do you get fractions in FM 12? I have text that expresses one-and-one-half as 1-1/2, which could be interpreted as 1-to-1/2. I would like to be able to show the fraction without the hyphen. Tom Beiswenger Manager, Technical & Training Documentation, Project Manager - Inspection

How do you get fractions in FM 12?

2014-12-09 Thread tom . beiswenger
I have text that expresses one-and-one-half as 1-1/2, which could be interpreted as 1-to-1/2. I would like to be able to show the fraction without the hyphen. Tom Beiswenger Manager, Technical & Training Documentation, Project Manager - Inspection Business Emhart Glass Mfg. Inc. 1140 Sulliv