Solidus for inline Fractions?
Louis Vosloo
> My problem is this, I want to write good looking fractions in my text
> but I can't seem to do a nice job.
> What I want is a solidus (not a virgule; the standard slash is a
> virgule, the solidus has a shallower slope , about 45 degrees, and
> allows tighter kerning of the super and subscript than a slash).
>
> I'm aware of the nicefrac package in units and have tried it but it's
> not quite right.
>
> Is there a solidus available in any of the [math] font sets? If so then
> I could create a customised nicefrac that used that symbol instead of
> the slash.
Not in CM (I guess you are suppossed to use real fractions if possible).
LucidaNewMath (regular, italic, bold, bolditalic) has a shortsolidus
(does not descent below the baseline) and shortsolidusback.
Most Type 1 fonts have a glyph called "fraction" which is a
near-zero advance-width low angle thing that does descent below
the baseline. Character 218 on the Mac, not accessible in Windows
(except in DVIWindo previewer). Character 4 in LY1 and 8r encoding,
and 164 in Adobe StandardEncoding.
You would think there should be a \textfraction command in LaTeX 2e
to access this glyph, but that name is already used for something else...
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David Carlisle
> You would think there should be a \textfraction command in LaTeX 2e
> to access this glyph, but that name is already used for something else...
The standard latex name is \textfractionsolidus
Actually we did have a version of latex which had \textfraction defined
to be this glyph. Fortunately our internal testing showed up the error
of our ways before we let it out. (\textfraction being the proportion of
a page allocated to text...)
David