Custom Table Footnote options

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

On Sun, 3 Jul 2011 13:18:18 +0300, Orly Zimmerman 
<orlyz at marvell.com> wrote:

>Hi All,
>I would like to have a few more options as to my 
>custom Table Footnote symbols.
>
>Currently, if I define a "Custom" option  in the 
>Format>Document>Numbering> Table Footnote Tab with 
>the definition of *\d\D, FM uses a star, a dagger 
>and then a double dagger for my footnote symbols 
>in that order.

Those are the Frame dialog box codes, which work in 
all Frame versions, Unicode (8 up) or not (7 down).

>I tried inserting \xa7 \ax8, \xa9 and \xaa and got 
>a Beta, then a few copyright symbols and then a 
>register trademark symbol - but what I wanted were 
>club, diamond, heart and spade.

Not sure why you got that; should have been section 
mark, dieresis, copyright, and feminine ordinal.
Those codes would give you the suits in the Symbol 
font, but AFAIK you can't specify font for those
symbols.

>Does anyone know how I can get a proper list of 
>options for defining these Custom symbols for table 
>footnotes? I've checked the character sets but FM 
>doesn't seem to use the standard char sets.

Use the Unicode for the chars: \x2663 \x2666 \x2665 
\x2660 for the solid symbols, \x2667 \x2662 \x2661 
\x2664 for the hollow ones.

>I'm currently using FM8 from TCS1 on WinXP SP2

For FM8 and above, Unicode code points should work.
Haven't tested this specific usage, though.  ;-)

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
  <jeremy at omsys.com>  http://www.omsys.com/