Fractions Simply Won't Display Properly - Page 4

selowitch

I've been searching in vain for a way to present typographically
correct fractions (not resorting to <sup> and <sub> tags) but have been
frustrated by the fact that the glyphs for one-half, one-eighth,
three-quarters, etc. do not display in the correct typeface (or even
consistently the same typeface) and seem totally resistant to attempt
to fix this through CSS:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en">
<table>
<tr valign="top"><t d>¼</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><t d>½</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><t d>¾</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><t d>⅓</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><t d>⅔</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><t d>⅕</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><t d>⅖</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><t d>⅗</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><t d>⅘</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><t d>⅙</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><t d>⅚</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><t d>⅛</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><t d>⅜</td></tr>
<tr valign="top"><t d>⅝</td></tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Any thoughts of a solution (other than using inlines like 1/2, 3/4,
etc. or other hacks)?

Jul 24 '05

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Andreas Prilop

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Dr John Stockton wrote:

One should not pander to the incompetent. Do it so that it works well
in the majority of countries (there are more countries in the British
Isles than in the whole of North America), and include a footnote or
link explaining why they have their problem.

I take that, that one should write, for example, √
for the square root sign
http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nht...quareroot.html

but not <font face=Symbol>&Ou ml;</font>.
http://google.com/search?q=p.is.disp...859-1&filter=0

Jul 24 '05 #31

Jukka K. Korpela

Dr John Stockton <jr*@merlyn.dem on.co.uk> wrote:

[ Discussing the use of FRACTION SLASH character, in a hypothetical
situation where it is supported as defined in the Unicode standard: ]

That would work for numeric fractions; but more is needed, as in my
gravity*.htm pages : a/b a + b/c a+b / c (a + 2b)/(c + 4d)

Fractional expressions are different from fractions as fractional
numbers. Traditional typography uses particular styles for the latter
but does not deal much with the former, partly because it revolves
around normal text rather than mathematical texts. Surely you need some
special markup or comparable tools if you wish to have fractional
expressions displayed in special ways (i.e. other than simple
linearized notation). HTML 3.0 had some realistic ideas about this, but
now we are in the jungle of messy and mostly unimplemented MathML.

--
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
Pages about Web authoring: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www.html

Jul 24 '05 #32

SeaPlusPlus

Andreas Prilop wrote:

Why then do you bother with entities? Write the text directly in UTF-8.
Isn't it more convenient to see, say, µ than µ ?

Seems problematic to me... how do I encode the files I've already done
easily and what happens when... say... I choose view source in my
browser (or for someone else's) will it show correctly or will they then
see mouse droppings throughout the text?

If I thought it would be reasonable I would...
Thank you...

Rich

Jul 24 '05 #33

Andreas Prilop

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, SeaPlusPlus wrote:

Seems problematic to me... how do I encode the files I've already done
easily
You could open with Netscape/Mozilla Composer and save as UTF-8.
and what happens when... say... I choose view source in my
browser (or for someone else's) will it show correctly or will they then
see mouse droppings throughout the text?

Try that at
http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nht...ilingual1.html

Jul 24 '05 #34

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