Detail

The “Format Fraction” item is in the Text sub-menu of AppleWorks Scripts Menu.

Select a fraction containing a slash "/" character and run this script. The numerator is formatted as "superior", the slash is replaced with the "⁄" (shift-option-1) character and the denominator is set to half the font size.

Sample

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Requirements

Operates on the selected text in a word processing document or text frame.

This script works with AppleWorks 6 and AppleWorks 5.

Only registered users are permitted to use the supplied files after 14 days or edit them.

Download

This script is included in the Enhancement Pack for AppleWorks, not supplied separately.

Scripting

This script is editable. Some significant lines of code are:

set slashPosition to my CharacterOffset("/", theText)

-- slash
set character slashPosition in textRef to "⁄" -- shift-option-1

-- denominator
tell text (slashPosition + 1) thru -1 in textRef
   set oldSize to size
   set size to oldSize / 2
end tell