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Austin Shackles
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On or around Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:24:08 GMT, SteveG <spam@spam.co.uk>
enlightened us thusly:
>
>I've tried using sub & super script but it doesn't give the desired
>look. I'm trying to achieve something like this -
>
> 9
>----
>16
>
>- where the numbers are directly above and below the dividing line,
>rather than slightly off to either side. With some combinations of
>sub/super script creations the pdf conversion goes a bit haywire too.
I've a font editor, I could have a go... which font are you intending to
use?
most fractions tend to be slanty, though...¼, ½, ¾ are in standard fonts and
mostly come out slanty - I think it's mainly to do with getting in to a
standard l-height and not having 'em using the bit below the line, yet
making larger actual numbers. If you look at old books with
vertically-contructed fractions, they tend to use the space that the g-type
characters use as well, making the fraction taller than the normal l-height.
If you don't do that, you'd have trouble reading them in smaller sizes.
It'd be possible to make the font with extra glyphs, and map them to various
of the accented characters, say. You'd lose the other characters, mind -
Windows things only tend to have 255 characters readily accessible, unless
you can persuade it to look at all the unicode ones. I think a modified
font is the way I'd go, were I doing such a thing, and presuming it could be
embedded successfully.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk my opinions are just that
"The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twittering
from the strawbuilt shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing
horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed."
Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
enlightened us thusly:
>
>I've tried using sub & super script but it doesn't give the desired
>look. I'm trying to achieve something like this -
>
> 9
>----
>16
>
>- where the numbers are directly above and below the dividing line,
>rather than slightly off to either side. With some combinations of
>sub/super script creations the pdf conversion goes a bit haywire too.
I've a font editor, I could have a go... which font are you intending to
use?
most fractions tend to be slanty, though...¼, ½, ¾ are in standard fonts and
mostly come out slanty - I think it's mainly to do with getting in to a
standard l-height and not having 'em using the bit below the line, yet
making larger actual numbers. If you look at old books with
vertically-contructed fractions, they tend to use the space that the g-type
characters use as well, making the fraction taller than the normal l-height.
If you don't do that, you'd have trouble reading them in smaller sizes.
It'd be possible to make the font with extra glyphs, and map them to various
of the accented characters, say. You'd lose the other characters, mind -
Windows things only tend to have 255 characters readily accessible, unless
you can persuade it to look at all the unicode ones. I think a modified
font is the way I'd go, were I doing such a thing, and presuming it could be
embedded successfully.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk my opinions are just that
"The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twittering
from the strawbuilt shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing
horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed."
Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
