And I guess deleting the space after the "½" kicks in makes it go to "11/2"? Is being forced to have a space between the "1" and "½" an acceptable compromise?

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I've come across another problem with this method that I'm not sure how to fix.

Fractions aren't created if I'm using Oldstyle figures.

How can I include Oldstyle figures in the code?

And I guess deleting the space after the "½" kicks in makes it go to "11/2"? Is being forced to have a space between the "1" and "½" an acceptable compromise?

Deleting the space before the "½" makes it into "11/2", I think is what you meant. Which of course would cause "one-and-one-half" to be incorrectly read as "eleven-halves." But in plain text, you'd almost always have a space (or something) between the "1" and the "1/2" for precisely that reason. Tal noted the pros and cons in his original post of the code, and the "space" compromise is mentioned in both categories.

I experimented with nut fractions when I was making Scotch Modern, but couldn’t get them to work in the Fraction feature in both InD and Quark, so just implemented the basic fractions as pre-composed.

However, I have since thought of a better way to do nut fractions in the feature—but haven’t had cause to implement it, as all my subsequent faces have had “slash” fractions, not nut.