sorry merv. looks like i gave you a bum steer!
what i did was have a look at the *Character Palette* in the Menu bar
(the one you can put there by going to <System Preferences>
International>Input Menu> and choosing the category <Digits>.
from the characters listed you can then choose the *Insert* button to
input directly to your work.
i actually misread the available fonts that have fractions available
but, on checking again, there do seem to be mobs of them (Zapf dingbats
was in fact the font that had been selected previously and it was
trying to tell me that fractions are *unavailable* there by being
displayed in brackets; so what i used was presumably, some default!)
On Tuesday, Oct 28, 2003, at 07:20 Australia/Perth, Mervyn & Giuliana
Bond wrote:
At 10:48 PM +0800 27/10/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday, Oct 27, 2003, at 22:37 Australia/Perth, Mervyn & Giuliana
Bond wrote:
In the olden days there was a font called Boston that had the common
fractions of half, three quarters, two thirds etc.
Today I typed up some recipes for my wife with such measures and
used Boston. Because she wanted to send them by email with format
intact I went to Print and Saved at PDF. But I couldn't. Obviously
there was no conversion for the font. Converting half to 0.5 etc is
not an option, a third of cup does not convert very well in metril
or imperial.
Is there an OSX font with such measures and will Adobe recognise it?
Suggestions please.
Zapf Dingbats has them and they save as .pdf OK using that option on
the <print> command.
peter meyer
Peter, I've checked my version of Zapf Dingbats but couldn't find
fractions. Used standard key position, shift, option, and
shift-option. What version or key combination gives access to
fractions?
Merv
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