Dimension 1/2, 1/4 glyphs possible?

[Skidee]

I'm sure this has been discussed previously, but couldn't find it on the site.

Is it possible to substitute the typical fractions (1/2, 1/4, etc) in the dimensions command with their comparable "glyphs", i.e. instead of using 3 characters to display the fraction, use the single character that is usually included in the font?

TIA

Paul Skidmore

PSArchitecture

[Ray Libby]

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http://techboard.nemetschek.net/cgi/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=12;t=002920

[matto]

As i see it the main issue is Unicode glyphs only handle down to 1/4 (maybe 1/8) while in most cases 1/16 tolerance is the common practice , while Vectorworks itself can handle 1/64 tolerance.

Therefore unicode single glyphs will not handle all situations which we can imagine makes it differcult for the programmers to manage. As well, as not lending itself to constitancy of drawing standards.

The other option is to use supersript/subscript for fractions

instead of common numbers, which in theory is much easier to handle, and will give all faction a constitant look. In any case, if this sort of change is implimented should be a user selectable option, but could be a very handy one.