font change not appearing in Autonumber

Robert Lauriston robert at lauriston.com
Thu Nov 15 10:47:53 PST 2012


Eventually got this to work. I needed to reboot Windows to get it to
recognize the modified font, and delete FrameMaker's .font_cache to
get FrameMaker to apply it consistently.

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com> wrote:
> FM10. Inherited documents, template has evolved over maybe 15 years so
> there's a lot of legacy cruft.
>
> I have a Bullet1 paragraph tag. Its Autonumber Format is l\t (that's a
> lowercase L before the backslash). The Character Format for the
> autonumber is Bullet. The font for the Bullet character tag was once
> upon a time Zapf Dingbats but it gets remapped to Adobe Pi Std.
>
> On my predecessor's machine, Bullet1 had a round bullet, maybe because
> he had a different Zapf Dingbats, I don't know (machine has been wiped
> so I can't check it). On my machine, instead of a bullet there's a
> question mark.
>
> I was unable to get font mapping to work so I hacked Adobe Pi Std to
> add the bullet glyph from Zapf Dingbats BT Regular and map it to l.
>
> If I type an l and format it with the Bullet character tag, it appears
> as a bullet, but Bullet1 still has a question mark in place of a
> bullet.
>
> Suggestions?



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