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Re:The New Web Typography by sukuriant on Monday January 09, 2012 @08:34PM (#3445221)
I'm not sure your argument is valid. How is the decision made to convert x/y to fraction form? Is it white-space/punctuation+whitespace on either side? If that's the case, then: xxx/yyy will never become fraction form; however, x/y and x/y. (as in the end of a sentence) will.
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Re:The New Web Typography by yeswecan on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @03:40AM (#3446209)
The only way to guarantee it is to have an HTML tag to identify the fraction - <frac>11/63</frac> or similar.
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Re:The New Web Typography by mbq on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @03:59AM (#3446247)
But this does not work this way -- it seems it just blindly consumes char before and after / and converts if this fraction has a glyph in the font. Also, what you suggest is hard to implement since there are numerous localisation-dependent options what a whitespace/punctuation is and where to search it.
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