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Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved

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On 2015-03-22, isw <isw@witzend.com> wrote:
> In article <cn57lpF64i7U2@mid.individual.net>,
>  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> You're looking in the wrong place. Try System Preferences/Language & 
> Text/Text.

I think I'm looking in the right place for text substitutions.

There is no "Language & Text" panel in Mac OS X 10.10. There is a
"Language & Region", but that panel has no "Text" tab in it. It does
have an "Advanced" button where you can set the formats for numbers,
dates, and times. But there is nothing about fraction substitution in
there that I can see:

<http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=j675e1&s=8>

<http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2ex0lz5&s=8>

The only panel that deals with substitution is the Keyboard system
preference panel I mentioned earlier - and there are no fractions listed
in it:

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

This leads me to believe you are using an old version of Mac OS X -
perhaps 10.6. When I look at the system preferences in 10.6, I do see a
"Language & Text" system preference panel. And in the "Text" tab, I see
the same substitutions panel that now lives in the Keyboard panel in
10.10, where I do see fractions listed in the text substitution list:

<http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2z4fx21&s=8>

Which leads me back to what I said in another post: The text replacement
list is a simple text replacement function, and not a comprehensive
fraction improvement function. If you want it to handle more cases for
fractions with different characters, you have to add those to the list.

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Searching for "fraction slash" isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-03-19 20:37 -0700
  Re: Searching for "fraction slash" Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-03-20 18:22 +1200
    Re: Searching for "fraction slash" isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-03-20 10:59 -0700
  Re: Searching for "fraction slash" Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-03-19 22:36 -0700
  Re: Searching for "fraction slash" Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-20 13:48 +0000
    Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-03-20 15:08 -0700
      Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-03-20 16:40 -0700
        Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-03-21 13:19 +1200
          Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-03-20 18:08 -0700
        Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-03-20 20:21 -0700
      Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-21 00:03 +0000
        Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-03-20 20:20 -0700
          Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-21 12:48 +0000
            Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-03-21 21:47 -0700
              Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-03-22 18:00 +1200
              Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-22 12:15 +0000
                Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-03-22 08:39 -0700
                Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-22 15:47 +0000
                Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-23 02:54 +0000
                Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-03-23 16:51 +1300
                Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-03-22 21:42 -0700
                Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-23 13:25 +0000
                Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-23 13:23 +0000
                Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-03-22 21:27 -0700
      Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-03-21 13:19 +1200
        Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-03-20 20:16 -0700
          Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-21 12:40 +0000
          Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-03-22 09:57 +1200
            Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2015-03-21 22:09 -0700
              Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-03-22 19:19 +1200

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