"Nicefracs" hidden in math-frc.mkiv

"Nicefracs" hidden in math-frc.mkiv

[Andres Conrado Montoya]

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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.

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Re: "Nicefracs" hidden in math-frc.mkiv

[Hans Hagen]

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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