oneearth Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 I want to type "1/2" or "1/4 "and have it remain as full-size font characters but it keeps converting to fractions which are unreadable at small size. How to defeat the conversion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 It's an effect of the default Auto-Correct Preferences in Publisher, at least for English. You can remove those entries from the Auto-Correct list, or when you notice one happening that you don't want just "Undo" (Ctrl+Z (Windows) or Cmd+Z (Mac)). Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfriedberg Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 That will work in most cases. If it doesn't, there's another possibility. OpenType fonts can implement their own arbitrary ligatures, and recently I was reminded of this with a font that provided glyphs for the fractions 1/9, 2/9, 4/9, 5/9, 7/9 and 8/9 via its ligature tables. (3/9 being equal to 1/3, and 6/9 being equal to 2/3, the font did not provide special glyphs for those ninths improper fractions.) In the Character panel, Typography subpanel, there is a button labeled "1/2". That appears to control the use of fraction ligatures. Make sure it's turned off. walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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