delikatus
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Hi all, sorry not to respond for so long, but as I said, I don't have an internet connection at home (I can only recommend that to you actually, made me like my life a lot more). Anyways, thank you all very much for your responses and interesting discussions. As Oval would probably have predicted, I did not find fractions in my Helvetica FontBook. A little puzzling to me, I've never done anything to my Helvetica myself (maybe installing some software did? The only programs I installed on this 2015 Macbook pro running on OS X El Capitan 10.11.2 are Matlab 2015b, Microsoft Office and AD). # I have a Helvetica Neue installed though and this has fractions. Found out via R C-Rs tip, thank you very much. This is a great way to see all the fonts that have the symbols I'm looking for. And with Helvetica Neue (only if all of the text in a box is in Helvetica Neue though, not if parts are in Myriad Pro) I can finally also hit the fractions button and enjoy its effects. Very cool. Cheers, Christoph
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I did type 1/4. https://www.dropbox.com/s/xtsstxq9nntwk0x/Bildschirmfoto%202016-02-05%20um%2020.21.45.png?dl=0
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Hey Oval, let me detail my line of thought here. I'm happy to hear where I'm wrong. "The second way is for Affinity to look for any Unicode fraction glyphs the font might define, and substitute them as appropriate. Many more fonts support this, for the common fractions. For example, Helvetica defines U+00BC as ¼, and so if you have Helvetica text, type "1/4" and enable Fraction on it, then you should see it change to ¼." -> I use Helvetica -> U+00BC is definded as ¼ -> Dave Harris says: "type '1/4'" -> I type '1/4' -> Dave Harris says: "and enable Fraction on it" -> my understanding of this: Hit the fraction button -> I can't hit the fraction button: In the "Typography" window there is no such option and in the "Character" window it is not clickable -> something is wrong. If I try to follow your first post, my strategy to implement your idea is to go on this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Forms and copy the fractions I need as I don't know a better way to get them. This is somewhat uncomfortable as I do not always have an internet connection. I guess it's not very clever, so if you know a better way, enlighten me. Cheers, Christoph
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Dear Dave Harris, thank you very much. Here is a screenshot of the current situation. It seems to me that "something is wrong" then. https://www.dropbox.com/s/76k8e737czt7t37/screenTypoCharacter.png?dl=0
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Thank you very much. So if I understand you correctly, then this substitution program is not present in my Helvetica, Arial or Myriad Pro and in these cases, I have to generate the fraction glyph myself outside of AD? And if the substitution program was present, "1/4" would be changed into ¼ if I highlighted the text and hit "Fractions"? And what would then be fonts which typically have this substitution program?
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Aha. So what then is the button "Fractions" for and how can I use it?
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Hi Oval, thank you very much for your reply. This is definitely helpful, but ideally I'm looking for something like you can see here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/o778x24akpsv6bh/third.png?dl=0 Cheers, Christoph
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Hi Affinity Designers, I have a very simple question, sorry, I was not able to figure this out: How do I transform fractions in my text into a single glyph? My intuition was to insert something like "n/k", highlight it and then click on "Fractions" [1/2] in the "Typography" section in the box that pops up when you hit "Show Typography" (is its name the "Character Box"?). For some reason, the "Fractions" button stays unclickable though. This is the case in all fonts tested, like Helvetica, Arial, Myriad Pro. Can you help me out here? That would be awesome! Cheers, Christoph