Bullet points

[Scott Prentice]

Actually .. the baseline shift can be done through FrameMaker with a 
free plugin that we offer ..

    http://www.leximation.com/tools/info/extracharformat.php

...scott

Scott Prentice
Leximation, Inc.
www.leximation.com
+1.415.485.1892



Steve Rickaby wrote:

>At 09:39 -0500 3/3/06, Roger Shuttleworth wrote:
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>>Further to Grant's reply:
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>>You can use any font for your character format. Then in the paragraph
>>designer, Numbering tab, specify the character format you want to use.
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>Further to further, if you go a long way down this route, for example using a different point size for bullets than for the text to get fashionably large ones, you can end up with a baseline alignment issue (i.e. bullet looks lower than text).
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>Baseline shifts cannot be adjusted within FrameMaker, but they can be adjusted from MIF. Page 595 of Sarah O'Keefe's 'FrameMaker 7, The Complete Reference' describes how to do this: you need to create a MIF fragment that specifies a character format that includes an <FDY offsetvalue> token, where 'offsetvalue' is between -100 to +100.
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