non-member submission - Re: SC - Fractions in recipes

[Michael F. Gunter]

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