Writing 3/8" or 5/8" in FrameMaker

Question

I am Swedish, and we don't use inches that often (only with for instance pipe dimensions). 1/2, 1/4 and 3/4 I can do with the keyboard or Alt 0188 and Alt 0190 (but it doesn't work here). But how do you Americans, who uses inches a lot, write for instance 3/8 or 5/8? I can't find any ASCII-codes for that.

Lena

Bob_Niland · Accepted Answer

There are Unicode instances for many "vulgar fractions", but they are scattered all over the codespace, and usually not in any well-ordered groups.

⅜ is U+215C (\u215c in FM dialogs)

⅝ is U+215D (\u215d in FM dialogs)

Your font needs to populate those code points.

jokki · Answer

Howdy LenaIgnore what this guy Bib Noland is saying, and don't take offence at his personal criticisms, which I consider to be very unprofessional and unhelpful. What annoys me however is that he has the audacity to say that your question has been answered, but I imagine he's under pressure because Framemaker 17 is such a stupidly flawed product, and if the developers had sat down and used it themselves for a few months then they might have had some idea of what is an improvement and what isn't.In your case, I think the simplest workaround is to use superscripts and subscripts. In other words, for something like 7/8, type 7 slash 8, and using the character palette make the 7 a superscript and the 8 a subscript.Hope that is some help, if you weren't aware of it already.

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