![]() ![]() ![]() Option 1: Leave a Note to Productionīe sure to tell your compositor/typesetter in a cover letter that these fractions need to be created. It’s weird that 2/3 isn’t built in, but odd fractions like 4/9 or 11/5 will always have to be created from scratch. The typographer then has to create a kind of glyph (or maybe a ligature) from scratch. Typography experts have explained elsewhere that sometimes we just have to insert a note to the typographer in a manuscript, saying that we want a true fraction. The character viewer in the operating system and in Word’s “insert symbol” option on the Home ribbon used to show 1/4 and 1/2 characters, but those are not appearing at the moment. The problem is that not all fonts contain a full range of fractions, so you might not be able to insert even a common fraction like two-thirds. In Word’s Preferences (Mac) or Options > Proofing from the File ribbon (Windows), go to the AutoFormat tab to set whether or not fractions will be replaced with a character when one exists in that font family.
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