[XeTeX] wspr's realscripts & updated xelatex templates

[John Was]

I'm a plain TeX user so not directly involved, but any package that makes 
vulgar fractions simple (especially if the results are consistently good) 
seems worth retaining on principle.  Something like 'three twelve hundred 
and twenty-fourths' can be a real pain to code manually depending on the 
font!

John


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Cottenden" <d.cottenden at ucl.ac.uk>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: 15 September 2010 09:20
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] wspr's realscripts & updated xelatex templates


> On 15/09/10 09:08, Will Robertson wrote:
>
>> - Defines the dubiously useful commands
>> \vfrac - for vulgar fractions with fontspec
>> \namedglyph - to access font glyphs by name
>
>> #4(a,b) are probably never used.
>
> Nooooo! Don't remove these, please! They have at least /one/ user... 
> \vfrac is especially useful.
>
> Am I alone in this, or does anyone else use them? Speak now, or I'll shut 
> up, go away, and copy the bits of code out of xltxtra before their 
> demise...
>
> David
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