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    26-Nov-91 18:07:14
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Fm: Gale Gorman 76214,2236
To: Pierre GASZTOWTT 76436,2447
Pierre, I'm a steel detailer and when I first started with AutoCAD my first priority was to write a font with fractions. The easiest way to accomplish this was to just add to the Simplex font file. The next step was a Lisp routine to convert my decimal input in a text string to the desired fraction. Finally came my dimensioning routine that tied them all together. It would probably have been simpler if AutoCAD would have included all of this *provided* it was totally customizable. Even with the mind boggling array of options that are available in the native DIM routine, many users, including myself, just found the output unacceptable. Gale