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Re: Searching for "fraction slash" -- solved

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On 2015-03-23, David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
> Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>
>> Okay, so one time? In band camp? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> was all,
>> like:
>> 
>>> 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:
>> 
>> They moved it (very recently) to Keyboard -> text. It might be as
>> recently as the 10.10.3 beta, in fact, but I think they moved it earlier
>> than that. Can't check 10.10.2 right now.
>
> The substitutions were in Keyboard > Text starting in 10.9 (Mavericks).
> Just confirmed on my 10.9.5 system. They were in Language & Text > Text
> for 10.8.5 and earlier.

Sounds about right. Thanks.

> A fresh install of Mavericks or Yosemite doesn't have them by default
> (but Mountain Lion does). The new defaults have just an "omw" for "On my
> way!", same as the iPhone/iPad.
>
> My current Yosemite system also has only the "omw" substitution, which I
> didn't create so it presumably came from the new defaults. This system
> was an upgrade from Mavericks, which was set up by migrating from my
> previous computer which had been running Mountain Lion. I don't recall
> offhand whether I had ever modified the previous default substituations,
> but I expect I hadn't, beyond disabling most of them.
>
> I do recall having the "omw" substitution rule while I was running
> Mavericks.
>
> It therefore looks like migration to Mavericks replaced the old default
> substitutions with the new defaults (but perhaps upgrading doesn't,
> which is why Lewis and Michelle still have them?).
>
> I don't have enough evidence to judge what happened to any custom
> substitution rules in a migration to Mavericks or Yosemite.

Very interesting. At any rate, I say good riddance to them!

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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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