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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,alt.comp.lang.applescript
Subject: Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved
Date: 21 Mar 2015 12:48:57 GMT
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On 2015-03-21, isw <isw@witzend.com> wrote:
> In article <cn3qqpFqcqnU1@mid.individual.net>,
>  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 2015-03-20, isw <isw@witzend.com> wrote:
>
>> > Interestingly, the Language & Text/Text option to automatically replace 
>> > "big" fractions with "small" ones (multiple characters with a single 
>> > one) *does not work* if the fraction uses a fraction slash.
>> 
>> That makes sense.
>
> I hope you're making a funny. I just did a bug report to Apple about it.

I had assumed you were making reference to the System Preferences >
Keyboard > Text panel, where you can enter your own substitutions; but
now after re-reading, it seems like there is a specific setting
somewhere to replace fractions. I don't see that option in this
panel on my Mac Pro running 10.10 though:

<http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=20u5nnk&s=8>

What am I missing?

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