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 <webmas...@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] > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
