Henry House wrote: > > The macro is to be used for typesetting a cookbook; comparable usage suggests > that fractions should be not be written out in words but should change to > italics in italic text. (Keeping maths in roman in italic blocks is of course > the correct usage in the mathematical papers for which LaTeX was designed.)
Many cookbooks are set using non- TEX technology! Standard practise in the book and magazine industry is use of 'vulgar fractions' which are single glyphs in some fonts. If memory serves, many ITC, Bitstream, and Adobe fonts have a splendid selection of these glyphs: 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4. Charter has a few. Many fonts have nothing. HTH, HAND -- *page 299, line -2 change "Leonhard Euler [113] in 1765" to "Daniel Bernoulli in 1728" _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech