non-member submission - Re: SC - Fractions in recipes
Michael F. Gunter
michael.gunter at fnc.fujitsu.com
Mon Jan 22 13:10:12 PST 2001
Excerpts from internet.listserv.sca-cooks: 21-Jan-101 Re: SC - Fractions
in recipes by Tara Sersen at nni.com
> > Folks, please use three key strokes instead of one and type
fractions
> > all the way out, such as 1/2 instead of a single key stroke that i'm
> > seeing as an omega or an infinity sign or some other
> > non-alpha-numeric character.
>
> Some e-mail programs automatically recognise 1/2 and convert it to the
> single-character figure, which people may not realize or may not know
> how to stop. There should be a setting in the options somewhere, kind
> of like the auto-spell-correct, that can be un-clicked to stop this.
Or
> else, try putting space in the sequence like- 1/ 2.
Or else use decimals whenever possible, 0.5 is as readable as 1/2, and
1.5 takes fewer keystrokes than 1 1/2, and is equally readable.
toodles, margaret
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