searching for a section symbol

[Les Smalley]

The \f  (end-of-flow) special character search does not work correctly inside a table in FrameMaker (at least, not on Windows) for at least versions 5 through 8.   However, you can use the hex equivalent - enter \x0b as the search text (wildcards not needed) to find the end-of-flow in the cells.  For some reason, it does not select (highlight) the EOF symbol (displayed as the section character) if there is any text preceding it in the paragraph, but it does place the insertion point there.

For your seach, you can find the string " \x0b"  (without quotes) and replace with nothing to eliminate the terminal spaces, as the end of flow can not be removed.

– Lester

--- On Wed, 3/4/09, Alan Litchfield <alan at alphabyte.co.nz> wrote:
Carol, 

As I understand it there is no dialog operator to find that. I 
guess that is the case because it is 'outside' the text flow and 
therefore is not searched as a 'text symbol'. Your best option 
is to search for end-of-paragraph symbols.

If however you are seeking to navigate to the end of a flow of 
text, I think there is a way to move the Insertion Point to the 
end of a flow (IPEndOfFlow) but I can't think of it at the 
moment. It may be necessary for you to define a keyboard command
for this action(?).

Information on Customizing FrameMaker's behaviour can be found 
here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/8.0/customize_frame.pdf

(Sorry, you didn't say which version).

Alan

> In a table cell with View->Text Symbols turned on, how do I search
> for a blank space following the last alpha-numeric character and
> preceding the section symbol? I know the keyboard strokes to search
> for the tab symbol, forced return symbol, end-of-paragraph symbol,
> etc., but none of my quick-reference guides define the section symbol.
> Thanks!

-- 
Alan Litchfield MBus (Hons), MNZCS
AlphaByte
PO Box 1941, Auckland
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