<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I had exactly this issue the other day. A good solution could be to use the xfrac package:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> \documentclass{article}</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> \usepackage{xfrac}</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> \begin{document}</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> ``Case-fraction’’ for one-hal is given by \sfrac{1}{2}, which also works in math mode: $ \sfrac{1}{2} (a + b)$.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> \end{document}</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 1, 2016, at 4:00 PM,R Martinez <<a href="mailto:rm.tech@mac.com" class="">rm.tech@mac.com</a>> wrote:</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">I want to write text in my LaTeX document that includes a fraction, e.g., 3 1/2, but I want to replace the three-character 1/2 with the single character ?. As you can see, I can do it using the Mac keyboard with Mac documents such as this email. I tried inserting it in my LaTeX document but it did not typeset correctly.<br class=""><br class="">I am using the STIX font package. I have scoured the zillion STIX characters but cannot find ? with a LaTeX backslash command.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class="">The STIX reference document I am using is "The stix package" STI Pub Companies v1.1.1-latex from 2014/07/31. I have attached it to this email.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class="">The character ? appears in the ts1-stixgeneral table on p. 29 of the STIX reference with coordinates<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> ?5<br class="">?27x | ? | ?Bx<br class=""> ?D<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">I don?t know how to access this.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class="">Does anyone know how to insert a fraction in the text? <br class=""></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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