Can't enter alpha character in text

Robert Lauriston robert at lauriston.com
Fri Jul 19 11:46:01 PDT 2013


Are you sure there's an alpha in the font you're using? You can
inspect it with Windows' Character Map utility. It will indicate the
key sequence to type it in the status bar.

If you're using a Unicode font, 097 is wrong. Use one of the methods
documented here:

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/3b1/index.htm

Or just cut and paste from the "browser test page" that links to.

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Nancy Allison <maker at verizon.net> wrote:
> 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").



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