With InDesign CS4, if you go to the Character pallet, then to the TrueType drop-down menu, you come to an option called "Fractions." This converts any typed out fraction, from the "vulgar" ones like 1/2 and 3/4, to even odd ones like 63/239 into good looking ones (which I can't represent here) with the numerator nicely superscripted and the denominator the proper size, and both numbers at a weight that matches the rest of the font.īut, if you have a lot of fractions to do, it is kind of a pain. I had been struggling to make nice, professional looking fractions for a long time. While the free version works great, whether you use OpenType fonts or not, the Pro version also adds the ability to format all the fractions in your entire document, adds the ability to automatically stroke the numerator and denominator for better appearance and offers a Preferences window for easy configuring. You simply double-click the script and bam, you're done - no fine-tuning necessary. Proper Fractions 2.0 is similar to Quark's Make Fraction command. Dan Rodney is offering a free downloadable script that automatically changes all your manually typed fractions into near-perfect fractions in, well, a fraction of the time. The results weren't perfect, but I could live with them.īut you don't have to settle for "good enough" anymore.
Back in March, I wrote an article for about a simple method for getting fractions that look better than the defaults you typically get out of InDesign when using Superscript and Subscript settings.
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