From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
Andres Conrado Montoya <andresconrado@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: "Nicefracs" hidden in math-frc.mkiv
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 17:29:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1f0a3a91-273b-0c3d-2d4f-a893437739db@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGhDZhAnFH4OxeXWYRb68YQ7EBKeY=FOEYFrg2dhVwUEGT+bZA@mail.gmail.com>
On 1/18/2021 5:17 PM, Andres Conrado Montoya wrote:
> Hello, list.
>
> I Was checking out math-frc.mkiv to learn stuff, and found out that at
> the end of that file, from line 673, there is a couple commented out
> macros to generate "nice fractions'', i.e.: ½ (as in the LaTeX package
> nicefrac). Why has this code been commented out? These are quite useful.
because text fraction seldom look good in math when combined with other
script sizes that are needed to complement the missing nice fractions
Hans
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