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lutoslawski · Post by **lutoslawski** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 1:09 pm

Hello, I hope you can help.

I am typing a mixed number in-text, and I want it to display the fractional part as 1/4, for example. I have tried the \tfrac command, but this produces a horizontal bar and not a solidus. Is there a way to get what I want so that, for example, 3 3/4 looks correctly typeset?

Many thanks

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Post by **Stefan Kottwitz** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 3:53 pm

Hi lutoslawski,

welcome to the board!
You could use nicefrac or xfrac for that.

Stefan

lutoslawski · Post by **lutoslawski** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 5:43 pm

Hi Stefan_K,

I tried nicefrac and it does just what I want.

Thanks for your help.

Jonathan

Post by **localghost** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 8:01 pm

lutoslawski wrote:[…] I tried nicefrac and it does just what I want. […]

Then please mark the topic (not the last post) accordingly as written in Section 3 of the Board Rules (to be read before posting).

By the way, xfrac is the preferable solution since it uses future technologies of LaTeX3 by some xpackages.

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

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