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Yesterday I was explaining some typographic details to my Design II students. They were doing a direct mail project for Case Cutlery that included a product order form with fractions. I demonstrated the proper use of tabs, using Kitty Garland’s work as an example. Later I was researching a fraction function that I thought was available in InDesign, but was having no luck. This morning Kitty had an email in my in box with a bright and shining answer: Dan Rodney’s Proper Fraction 2.0, a script for InDesign an InCopy. I clicked the link, downloaded, unstuffed, and installed. It works quite nicely, doing the work in one step that would normally take many, many more. I did notice that some fonts work better than others. This sample is Berthold Bododi. I beefed up the weight of the fraction to medium after the script worked its magic, since the shrunken glyphs looked a bit anemic next to the full-sized ones. Dan has a great set of instructions included in his download.