Third-party font-suitcase migration from iMac G3 to iMac G4 Classic Environment

Question

Hello,
I thought I was all set ... successfully installed Appleworks 6.0.3 in the Classic Environment on my "new" Sunflower iMac G4 so I can still use my 3 macros and 2 custom buttons ... and imported my user dictionary as well. That was last week. (Hard drive on G3 is failing or I wouldn't have made the switch.)
It turns out I am using one third party font, two suitcases: Merriam and Merriam-Webster that the G4 will not recognize even in the Classic Environment. I spent hours yesterday reading about font issues and trying various things but didn't find anything that seems to apply directly to my situation.
I obtained these fonts from Merriam-Webster back in 2003 as part of downloading a trial dictionary.... I don't even remember. It turns out that one of these fonts proved useful last year ... providing an elegant way of making fractions... instead of 1/2, it would appear as superscript 1 over subscript 2 (without going to the trouble of creating super- and sub-scripts)  ... nice in a report where I have mixed fractions for acreage, linear measurements, and fractional ownership in halves, thirds, fourths, and fifths. (In Times New Roman, these combinations look like "azr", "azs", "azt", etc. ). I can certainly go back and manually (no format search-and-replace capability available in AW 6.0.3) replace these instances with superscripts and subscripts in Times New Roman, but I was hoping to be able to make the MerriamIPA font available in Classic. (Another option, to use the fractions available in Lucida Grande, seemed promising, but LG appears to be limited to OS X.)
What I have read indicates that you need to know what sort of font you are dealing with. The Merriam font suitcase looks just like all the other font suitcases on my G3 iMac, the little suitcase icon with an A on it. Inside, there are three fonts, each with the typical icon ... a page with the upper left corner turned down and a letter A on it. The Merriam suitcase contains 144 kb, the MerriamIPA font, 43 kb. The Managing Fonts help file on my iMac G3 says you can use Get Info in Finder to determine the font type. All I see is "font" or "font suitcase" for both the Merriam files/suitcases and several other native fonts.
I copied (using a thumb drive) the Merriam and Merriam-Webster font suitcases to   /System Folder/Fonts    on the G4 iMac. The suitcase displays zero bytes and file type Unix Executable File. I tried copying just the font independent of the suitcase. Same result.  I tried appending .DFONT,  .OTF,  .TTF   ... various font file extensions and was able to fake the system into thinking what sort of font file it is, but could not get the font to appear in AW 6.0.3.
I won't need this after I complete final edits on a 300-page report I have been working on for ten years (replete with drawings, footnotes, tables, etc.) At this point I'm anxious to get back to the edits and be done with migration issues! Hope someone can help.
-Dottie

Answer 1

I gave up on using a different font or figuring out if I could use Times New Roman's built-in fractions visible in Font Book (as unicodes) and did a work-around based on Michael Wasley's tips in this discussion.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/11622842#11622842
I adapted it however and think it looks a little better.
Font: Times New Roman 12 point
I used the fraction bar in 12-point (Shift-Option-1) for automatic kerning.
For the numerator, I changed the font style to superior (12-point).
For the denominator, I changed the font style to subscript (Shift-Command-hyphen) and reduced the font size to half, or 6-point using the short-cut Shift-Command-<.
When the fractions occured in my footnotes (9-point), I used 4-point in the denominator; 10- and 11-point, I used 5-point in the denominator. This seemed to produce the best result when printing.
Thank you, Michael.
-Dottie