FM10 special character

Klaus Daube frame at daube.ch
Sat Sep 8 13:34:54 PDT 2012


On 5 Sep 2012 at 4:30, Timothy DeWees wrote:

> We upgraded to FM10 this year and now I´m having trouble creating a
> special character. I´m trying to create a right arrow, as in a
> chemical equation. (I have the special toolbar, but it doesn´t include
> this.) I can´t seem to get this symbol using the old FM8 method of
> using a character and applying a "symbol" character tag. I looked
> online and it suggests using the character palette, but I can´t get
> that to open. It seems maybe that was in FM9, but not included in
> FM10? Thanks in advance for any advice! 

Tim, there are vaious methods to enter special symbols (which are not in the current text font). I 
have collected these methods in my FM-8 handout , pages 46-49. Although written for FM-8 it is still 
valid even for FM-11.

HTH Klaus Daube

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