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June 2021 - Math in Office

Switching from LaTeX to UnicodeMath Input Mode

June 4, 2021 Jun 4, 2021 06/4/21
Murray Sargent
Here’s a bit of a puzzle. When the user enters “a/b” in LaTeX mode and formats it with the Enter key, the ‘/’ is marked as “nobuildup”. If the user then switches to UnicodeMath input mode and enters a space after the linear fraction containing the ‘/’, the fraction won’t build up, by design. If you delete the / and reenter ...