Re: Mathematical DTP

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From: Frank Kolnick
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1989 05:12

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In article <297@gargoyle.uchicago.edu> mcdougal@gargoyle.uchicago.edu.UUCP (thomas fenger mcdougal) writes:
>
>Any experts on mathematical typesetting?  I want to produce
>a low-level math textbook with the Mac.  I'll need fractions,
> ...

No experts here, but I find that if I:
1) reduce the size of the numerator,
2) superscript the numerator,
3) type the /
4) reduce the size of the denominator
I get a reasonable-looking fraction. In XPress, I can fine-tune the
kerning to make it look nicer. (With QuicKeys, you could probably
automate most of this process, but I haven't tried that.)

-- 
Frank Kolnick,
consulting for, and therefore expressing opinions independent of, Computer X
UUCP: {allegra, linus}!utzoo!mnetor!frank

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!frank
From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mathematical DTP
Keywords: MSWord, Quark, fractions
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Date: 14 Jan 89 05:12:10 GMT
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