Is there a neat way to represent a fraction as an attributed string?

Question

i was wondering if there was a builtin method to represent

var someFraction = \"1/12\"

as an attributed string? i.e. the \"1\" is

Answer 1

If you want to have arbitrary fractions represented correctly, you should set the UIFontFeatureTypeIdentifierKey and UIFontFeatureSelectorIdentifierKey to kFractionsType and kDiagonalFractionsSelector respectively for UIFontDescriptorFeatureSettingsAttribute in a custom UIFontDescriptor. For example you can say something like:

let label = UILabel(frame: CGRect(x: 0.0, y: 0.0, width: 1000.0, height: 100.0))
let pointSize : CGFloat = 60.0
let systemFontDesc = UIFont.systemFontOfSize(pointSize,
    weight: UIFontWeightLight).fontDescriptor()
let fractionFontDesc = systemFontDesc.fontDescriptorByAddingAttributes(
    [
        UIFontDescriptorFeatureSettingsAttribute: [
            [
                UIFontFeatureTypeIdentifierKey: kFractionsType,
                UIFontFeatureSelectorIdentifierKey: kDiagonalFractionsSelector,
            ], ]
    ] )
label.font = UIFont(descriptor: fractionFontDesc, size:pointSize)
label.text = "The Fraction is: 23/271"

with the following result:

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Swift 3.0

extension UIFont
{
    static func fractionFont(ofSize pointSize: CGFloat) -> UIFont
    {
        let systemFontDesc = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: pointSize).fontDescriptor
        let fractionFontDesc = systemFontDesc.addingAttributes(
            [
                UIFontDescriptorFeatureSettingsAttribute: [
                    [
                        UIFontFeatureTypeIdentifierKey: kFractionsType,
                        UIFontFeatureSelectorIdentifierKey: kDiagonalFractionsSelector,
                    ], ]
            ] )
        return UIFont(descriptor: fractionFontDesc, size:pointSize)
    }
}

let label = UILabel()
label.backgroundColor = .white
let pointSize: CGFloat = 45.0
let string = "This is a mixed fraction 312/13"
let attribString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: string, attributes: [NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: pointSize), NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.black])
attribString.addAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.fractionFont(ofSize: pointSize)], range: (string as NSString).range(of: "12/13"))
label.attributedText = attribString
label.sizeToFit()