<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">All,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I want to write text in my LaTeX document that includes a fraction, e.g., 3 1/2, but I want to replace the three-character 1/2 with the single character ½. As you can see, I can do it using the Mac keyboard with Mac documents such as this email. I tried inserting it in my LaTeX document but it did not typeset correctly.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am using the STIX font package. I have scoured the zillion STIX characters but cannot find ½ with a LaTeX backslash command. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The STIX reference document I am using is "<font size="4" class=""><span style="font-family: STIXGeneral;" class="">The </span><span style="font-family: SFSS1728;" class="">stix </span><span style="font-family: STIXGeneral;" class="">package"</span></font><span style="font-size: 17pt; font-family: STIXGeneral;" class="">
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: STIXGeneral;" class="">STI Pub Companies </span><span style="font-family: STIXGeneral; font-size: 12pt;" class="">v1.1.1-latex from 2014/07/31. I have attached it to this email. </span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The character ½ appears in the ts1-stixgeneral table on p. 29 of the STIX reference with coordinates</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> ′5</div><div class="">′27x | ½ | ″Bx</div><div class=""> ″D</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don’t know how to access this. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Does anyone know how to insert a fraction in the text? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for your help.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Raul Martinez</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div></body></html>