\documentclass{article} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage{textfrac} \nofiles \begin{document} ... One of the first flowers of spring on upland prairies and dry hillsides, spiny phlox usually occurs concurrently with pasque flowers.This compact, mat-forming perennial is only a few inches tall. Leaves are opposite, linear, up to about \textfrac1/3 inch long and \TextFrac{1}{16th} inch wide. Flowers are solitary and terminal. The petals are white, forming a short tube with 5 lobes at right angles to the tube, and with a yellow throat; the lobes are up to \TextFrac{1}{3} inch long and \textfrac1/6th inch wide. The fruit is a small oval capsule ... \end{document}