Can't enter alpha character in text

[Fred Ridder]

Where did you get that 097 code point?  Decimal 097 (hex 0061) is actually the code point for a Latin lower-case "a", and perhaps the instruction you cite assumed that you would format the character as Symbol font, which maps the Greek alphabet to the corresponding Latin alphabet code points and yields an alpha glyph in place of a Latin "a" glyph.

But if you're using a Unicode font that supports the appropriate codepage, you should be able to use the code point for the proper Greek character, which is hex 03B1 (u+03B1). There are several ways to insert this character:
You can use the Character palette (File > Utilities > Character Palette)
You can use the File > Utilities > Hex Input commandYou can type it directly using the hex keypad mode described in the list last weekYou can copy the character from the Windows Character Map tool and paste it into the FrameMaker document.

-Fred Ridder


Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 13:17:34 -0500
From: maker at verizon.net
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Can't enter alpha character in text

Hi, all. I use FM 10 on a Windows 7 system.  I am wasting way, way too much time trying to accomplish a simple thing: I am trying to insert a lower case alpha (looks like a fish, or a lower-case a) into text. The key code Numlock-alt-097, provided in the FrameMaker 9 special character set does not work (it comes out as an "x"). I have gone cross-eyed trying to find the character in the Character Palette, which does not seem to provide a way to search for the character.  If anyone can solve this annoyance for me, I will be very grateful. --Nancy


 		 	   		  
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