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Pierre,
I'll bet that this is high on the wishlist. Even if an individual has a
fractional font, to distribute his drawings he must include the font .SHX
file. This is intolerable. How do you like your fractions; with a
horizontal or diagonal slash, what ratio of regular text height to fraction
text height would be acceptable?
Dennis
Dear Dennis:
As an application developer, I have no preference.
However, if AutoCAD included a fractional font, it would create a standard
calling sequence. Users could then create their own fonts with whatever
vectors they like: the calling sequence would remain identical, and my
application would work better.
Do you think this has long been high on the priority list <g>?
Let me make a confession: when I started development, nothing was
customizable, and I was not sympathetic to what I considered draftsmen
little fusses. Now that the application is customizable, I recognize
details matter when it comes to producing good looking drawings. (The
application is AutoFLOOR, a composite beam design program which takes a
good look at a floor framing plan, designs all the beams and girders, and
posts all the design results to the drawing. The beam cambers include
fractions.)
Pierre
Pierre,
Have you proposed this on paper? I know it has to be on the list but they
tend to be quite formal about these things. If you could outline how you'd
like to see it implemented it might start some wheels turning!
Dennis
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