If you ’re typing on a Mac , you have a variety of options on how to recruit drawn or “ true ” fraction , ones that are typographically rendered to reckon like they appear in a recipe or in a Bible . I ’ve covered that antecedently in “ How to use macOS ’s Character Viewer to typecast emoji and other symbolic representation ” and “ How to insert fraction in Word and Pages . ”
But what if you ’re typing out an email or other text on your iPhone or iPad ? Their operating arrangement miss something as simple as a Character pallet . However , you may angle on thefree Pages app that Apple volunteer to all iPhone and iPad proprietor . After installing , if you do n’t have it , and launch Pages , do the following :
Now , as you typewrite most undivided - digit fraction , Pages mechanically reformats them . You must typewrite a blank space before and another case ( like a space or bolt ) afterward for page to perform its translation . For case , type a distance , numeral 1 , a advancing cut , numerical 2 , and then a infinite , and Pages produces ½. ( This also work in Numbers . )
You can type fractions as you go in Pages, and the app automatically reformats them into more compact versions drawn within the typeface.
you could typecast fractions as you go in Pages , and the app mechanically reformats them into more compact interpretation drawn within the typeface .
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Once you have your message or even just the fraction you need , imitate and glue them into a Mail or other document .
You can type fractions as you go in Pages, and the app automatically reformats them into more compact versions drawn within the typeface.
you may find fraction in the standard Unicode format by searching for them on the web , too , and then copy and glue them into an email subject matter or document . This page at compartdisplays all the common typographic or drawn fraction as inter-group communication to single character pages where , when you bring down there , you could simulate the fraction as a single character .
If you utilise fractions commonly , you could typecast out or paste the ones you rely on most into a Pages document and then imitate them from there into other Pages files or other locations as you need them .
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