[vox-tech] TeX question: writing a robust fraction macro

[Henry House]

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On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 06:00:51PM -0700, Shawn P. Neugebauer wrote:
[...]
> My current opinion (having blown a bit of time putting together
> this note) is to leave well enough alone.  In other words, don't
> worry about the italic issue--even latex doesn't bother with that
> (see Test 7).  Furthermore, I bet most of the time you should just=20
> spell such fractions out.  But, if you really want or need a slanted=20
> fraction, I think the myslantfrac macro below looks just fine.

The macro is to be used for typesetting a cookbook; comparable usage sugges=
ts
that fractions should be not be written out in words but should change to
italics in italic text. (Keeping maths in roman in italic blocks is of cour=
se
the correct usage in the mathematical papers for which LaTeX was designed.)

Thanks for the suggestions!

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Henry House
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