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Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved

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On 2015-03-20, isw <isw@witzend.com> wrote:
> In article <cn2mppFg7j0U6@mid.individual.net>,
>  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2015-03-20, isw <isw@witzend.com> wrote:
>> 
>> [Followups set to alt.comp.lang.applescript]
>
> I thought about that, but decided that the problem concerning the 
> "fraction slash" was more of a global issue rather than something that 
> just concerned AppleScript, since even TextEdit had problems with it 
> (and see the last two paragraphs).

No problem. : )

>> TextEdit displays the fractions as overlapping, but it is not possible 
>> to select only the slash -- if you put the cursor over the slash of 
>> "1/2" and move it one way you select the "1", and the other you select 
>> the "2", but you can't highlight only the slash. Odd.
>
> So after I posted my question, I fiddled around some more with TextEdit 
> and discovered that, while it is not possible to select only the 
> fraction slash character, it *is* possible to place the cursor ahead of 
> the entire fraction ("1/2") and then to selectively delete both the 
> numerals, leaving the fraction slash standing alone. Go figure.
>
> That was the clue I needed. I did the same thing, copying the entire 
> fraction, pasting it into the proper part of my AppleScript, and then 
> deleting both the numerals.

I just typed a fraction with the fraction slash character between two
numbers in TextEdit with the default Helvetica Neue font, and was able
to select only the slash with my trackpad. 

> Jolly's solution looks good, but my whole AppleScript is built around a 
> *long* list of text replacement operations, so isolating the character 
> gave me a solution that involved adding only one short line to the 
> script.

No worries. Just trying to help.

> But an underlying problem is that the Mac badly renders text which 
> includes a fraction slash -- at least in the typefaces I use for my 
> recipe collection. If it hadn't looked so bad, I wouldn't haven't cared 
> (or even noticed) that the character was not just an ordinary slash.

They look fine in Helvetica and so on. Which fonts are you using?

> 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. 

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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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