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• • February 18, 2014 at 1:17 pm #67238
    Anonymous

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    Hello all. I am working on a catalog with product descriptions as bullet points. One of these points is a measurement, eg, 1/3″. Our editing standard is to superscript and subscript the 1/3 to create a fraction. The problem I’m having is that on these bullet points where there is a fraction, the bullet takes on the superscript format of the 1. I tried applying a character style to the my bullet points, but it still superscripts. Any way to work around this?

    Thanks

  • February 18, 2014 at 2:30 pm #67239
    Dwayne Harris

    Member

    In your character style sheet be sure to go to “advanced character type” in the character style sheet be sure to type 100 in the vertical and horizontal scale fields, as well as be sure baseline shift if 0.

  • February 18, 2014 at 2:32 pm #67240
    David Blatner

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    Why are you applying the fraction using superscript and subscript rather than the OpenType Fractions styling? That would be more efficient and faster.

    https://creativepro.com/download-our-guide-to-opentype-fractions.php

  • February 18, 2014 at 3:33 pm #67241
    Anonymous

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    Thanks Dwayne. I tried it and it didn’t really work. Not sure if I’m applying styles the right way. I have a paragraph style called “product features” and it has the bullet format. Within the bullets section of that paragraph style, I specified a character style with the formatting you specified. Didn’t really work. Am I doing this the right way?

    David, I am pretty much locked into using Arial. Not my choice, company standards.

    The workaround I’m currently using is I created a characters style with Myriad Pro as my font and fractions enabled. I just did a Find+Replace on all instances of that fraction and replaced it. Works OK. I don’t think our customer base will realize that it’s two different fonts.

    • February 18, 2014 at 3:42 pm #67243
      Dwayne Harris

      Member

      I just included something in my last post. Be sure in your basic font settings in your character style that the position is set to normal.

    • February 18, 2014 at 6:23 pm #67248
      Anonymous

      Inactive

      Ah ok that worked. Well, now I know. Thanks.

  • February 18, 2014 at 3:41 pm #67242
    Dwayne Harris

    Member

    David, though I’m not the OP, I did want to point out:

    A lot of open type fonts don’t have all the fractions in them, and using the open fraction styling doesn’t always work. The article even says that only a few of the bundled fonts would work that way.

    The only ones in the glyphs are 1/2 1/4 and 3/4.

    Anyway–I’ve worked on a lot of books (usually cookbooks) where I could not use that feature as fractions as 1/8 3/8 5/8 etc were used as well. So I used a script I had downloaded for CS4 and still use in CS6. I forget the name off hand as it’s on my work machine.

    NOTE TO THE OP: In your basic settings in your character style sheet be sure that “position” is set to “normal.”

  • February 18, 2014 at 5:02 pm #67247
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    That said, I see that if you apply the superscript using a grep style, it does work without affecting the bullet. For example, you could do a grep style for ^\d+ and apply a superscript character style, then use (?<=)\d+ to apply a subscript character style. Of course, you’d still need to change the slash into a virgule (fraction character), which you can’t do in grep styles.

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