title: How to display pretty fractions in Crystal Reports generated PDF
body: <p>I'm exporting a report to PDF using Crystal Reports bundled with VS2008.  I need to display non-standard fractions so that they look nice instead of just something like 26/32. I have turned html interpretation on for the field so <code>&amp;frac12;</code> and other standard html fraction entities display nicely, however, because CR does not understand <code>&lt;sup&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;sub&gt;</code> tags I cannot format non-standard fractions to look pretty.  Anyone have any ideas?</p>
  
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  <p>The fractions I'm displaying are passed to the Crystal Report as a string via a dataset in the format "xx/yy" or "xx yy/zz" and represent a product dimension.  After thinking about it some more I could probably pass the numerator and the denominator as separate fields and format them in the report that way, but I'm hoping there's a more elegant way.</p>