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More fun with text rendering - arbitrary 2- or 3-high stacks of ASCII characters within single cells. This is more useful than it sounds; I've already changed the FPS display to use a single "FPS" 3-stack.

@bj Is the system set up so that you could write a fraction like 15/16 without it looking weird?
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@Felthry Not yet. It's just single digits only so far. I'll note that as a feature request, though; maybe I can just make the superscript and subscripts align so you can write 15/16 as "superscript 1", "stack of 5/6", "subscript 6". The spacing would look a little odd, but it's a fair price to pay for monospaced-ness.

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@bj If you're okay with odd spacing, a sequence stack "1 ", stack "5/1", stack " 6" could probably work just as well, but yeah i'm not sure what you could do to get other fractions in monospaced stuff unless you could do 2×3 arrays and a fraction bar in the middle
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@Felthry
That doesn't look half bad, actually. Good suggestion.

@bj The spacing's still weird, but I'm not sure what you could do for that.
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@Felthry

It's monospaced, so spacing is always going to be a compromise anyway.

@bj suggestion for another thing: have a dash character that's the full width of the cell (or even better, an underline/overline that's exactly halfway between characters in the upper and lower cells), for making large-form fractions without having a dashed fraction bar
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