Yes InMath is fantastic, but that expresses equations and not fractions as you’d read in text. Like 3/4 or 6/8, for example. It puts

3
- + 100 = 101.5
2

While it’s fantastic and does a lot of the work for you for mathematical equations etc., it’s not exactly the same as what this product does.

interesting to read, but honestly, if you ever want to built fractions in a more professional way with nearly unlimited possibilities you should invest a little bit more an try InMath! I do math publications for years and THAT is the best way EVER…

Greetings from Germany (sorry for my English)

Ilona.

I bow my head, I took a further look and this is, indeed, a great script. Guess worth the money when you need this on a day to day (or even week to week) basis. I was just looking at ‘value for money’ compared to other third party solutions. DTPtools are VERY competetive with prizing so it may not be the right prize to compare.

FWIW we did talk about his original Proper Fraction script at length way back in Podcast 29 with a link to the script in Show Notes. I agree that it’s a work of beauty and I use it myself quite a bit. The Pro version sounds even juicier … wish I could’ve seen him present!

Remember that we have a PDF people can download showing the various levels of built-in fraction ability in the OpenType fonts that ship with InDesign: InDesign Secrets Guide to OpenType Fractions (from the Tutorials page).

Ordinarily I agree with much of what you write, but this time I think you’re off base. (American baseball term.)

I don’t know how much you have gone into the documentation and videos for the Pro product, but it way beyond any mere script. And rivals the DTP cross-reference plug-in for complete functionality.

Couple of points you may have missed:

There is total customization for over 20 different aspects of how a fraction should look. This includes custom kerning for every single combination of digits next to the slash. So a 1/2 is customized differently than a 1/3, 2/3, 3/4, etc.

There are settings for any typeface. So fonts that need a thicket amount of stroking can be saved as one preset while a different font can be saved as something else.

And there are controls so that you can find/change all the fractions in a single typeface in a story, and then run another pass for fractions in a different typeface.

Dan has done some very nifty things for OpenType fonts that don’t support fractions. (Something that Adobe doesn’t even warn you about.)

I suppose it’s a question of usefullness. Anyone working with cookbooks will adore this product. Anyone who doesn’t won’t necessarily feel the same as I do.

lets not forget the incredible amount of time this can save.

well worth the price for the pro version