Re: [libreoffice-users] How do I collapse the common fractions in Writer?

Awesome response, Tim - many, many thanks.

I couldn't check my home desktop (I'm at work right now), but whenever
I get back there I will.

Cheers!


On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 4:33 AM, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster
<webmaster@krackedpress.com> wrote:
> On 06/30/2015 04:04 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> > I have been searching for this and I can't seem to find the right setting.
> >
> > I have three or four installations of LO on various computers.  On
> > some of them, LO Writer automatically converts 1/2, 1/4 and 3/4 into
> > the symbols for such (½ ¼ ¾).  On others, the letters remain
> > unchanged.
> >
> > I'm reasonably certain there is a setting for this in one of the
> > options, but I can't find it in Help and I can't figure out which one
> > it's supposed to be in the Options lists.
> >
> > ???
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > MR
>
> You must activate the replacement table in the AutoCorrect options.
> Sometimes it seems that some of the options in "Options" tab need to be
> enabled or disabled after your standard install - or clean install.  At
> least I have seen that happen on my Linux [.deb] and Windows [XP,Vista,Win7]
> systems, over the past few years.
>
> Do you have DejaVU Sans installed?
>
> The Tools / AutoCorrect / Replace [tab] Replacement Table option
> seems to have DejaVU as the font and grayed out.
>
> There does not seem to be a way to ungray that font option anywhere - or at
> least on 4.3.4 64-bit .deb installs.
> [I just have not updated this system to 4.4.3, and not 4.4.4, yet]
>
> I do know that your fraction does change format with the font.
> Most fonts seem to use the ¼ - i.e. side by side - format, but not all of
> them.
>
> Comic Sans MS has the format where the number "/" number is lined up on top
> of each other, as a single character.
>
> 1
> --
> 4
>
> There is a "big" difference in font set versions.  "DejaVU Sans Mono" is a
> cross between what "Comic Sans MS" and "DejaVU Sans", almost top to bottom
> instead of side by side.
>
> Actually, if you really want to have more fraction options, there are font
> where every "special character" shown is a fraction.
>
>
> In the "standard" fonts with some of the Unicode characters/glyphs, here are
> the "special character" list you have the following options for fractions:
> [not shown in the special character format]
>
> Latin-1
> 1/4   3/4
> 1/2
>
> Number Forms
> 1/7  1/9  1/10
> 1/3  2/3
> 1/5  2/5  3/5  4/5
> 1/6  5/6
> 1/8  3/8  5/8  7/8
> 1/
> 0/3
>
> To be honest, if you need other fractions, or do not want the replacement
> table to make a mathematic "ratio" into a fraction, then you can just use
> the superscript and subscript font options.
>
> i.e.   superscript top number and subscript bottom one. ^11 /_15
> [hopefully the 11 and 15 are shown in the super and sub script formats]
>
>
>
>
>
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