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Originally Posted by theducks
 Where did you find these, they are not in the standard entity charts? Another non-standard 'Word' abomination? |
They are a part of Unicode:
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unic...preview=entity
I personally avoid the use of "vulgar fractions" because what happens when you are dealing with fractions that don't have proper unicode versions? For example, 3/10.
Then you get an inconsistent look between the vulgar fractions + the non-vulgar versions.
Also, especially when dealing with some of these less common vulgar fractions, the reading devices might not have those as a part of their fonts. Sure, they will probably have ½, ¼, but the fonts most likely will not have things like ⅝ and ⅞.
I personally would go with consistency and readability over looks.
Side Note: This also reminds me about the usages of superscript/subscript in ebooks. Sure, it may "look nicer", but it makes it tougher to read for people with poorer eyesight. I personally fall into the camp that tries to avoid smaller text. (Superscript footnotes, vulgar fractions, ...).
We had a nice long chat on superscript footnotes/text back in this thread (I started it around Post #23):
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=241177
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Originally Posted by theducks
What I don't know is how to do this as a single pass replace
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Yeah, I would probably just do this as normal search/replaces, and if you are dealing with a lot of cookbooks with the same fractions, I would just create a set of Saved Searches in Sigil.