Odd maths font problem... more

[Steve Rickaby]

Now here's a strange thing. One of the bad character transpositions is the substitution of a '5' for an '='.

If I create a new equation in the document that has the bad equations and insert an equality into it, I get a '? 5 ?' rather than a '? = ?' as expected.

However, if I create a new blank document and do the same thing there, I get '? = ? as expected.

It gets better: if I copy the '? = ?' from the clean FrameMaker document into the weird one, it is transformed into '? 5 ?'!

Thus it seems to be to do with the FrameMaker document and not with any weird font-type problem.

I tried MIF-washing the document in question, but it had no effect.

I'm stumped. Anyone any ideas?


At 16:58 +0100 2/9/07, Steve Rickaby wrote:
>Is anyone aware of an issue that could cause character transposition when moving FrameMaker documents containing FrameMaker equations from one platform [Windows] to another [Mac]? Some embedded equations have suffered the following character transpositions:
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>. Summation symbols are replaced by an inverted 'V'
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>. Dot product symbol is replaced by a question mark
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>. Subscripted equals is replaced by a '5'.
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>. ½ (pi) symbol is replaced by a 'p'
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>. '+' symbol is replaced by '1'
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>There may also be other substitutions I have not noticed. Clearly this does not help the readability of the equations much.
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>I have always been under the impression that FrameMaker used the same font [Symbol] for equations across all platforms. I have certainly never seen anything like this before, and I've worked on books with *lots* of equations in the past.
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>As far as I am aware, the originator of the documents is not using FrameMaker 8, but beyond that I'm not sure what version he's using yet, although I've asked several times.

-- 
Steve