Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems

[Reng, Dr. Winfried]

Hi,

Just for your information: The Windows Character Map tool
may show characters, even if they are not part of the font!
Therefore it could always happen that you try to copy and paste
a certain character although it is not part of your font!

Alternatives are.

BabelMap, free and not very user-friendly. No installation necessary.
You can start the exe which you download.
http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html

PopChars, often recommended, not free (30 Euros)
http://www.ergonis.com/products/popcharwin/

Best regards

Winfried

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Lise Bible
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 9:12 PM
To: Fei Min Lorente
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems

Fei Min,
I'm on Frame 8, so I have no solutions for Frame 10, but have you tried using Windows Character Map (under Programs>Accessories>System Tools) as a workaround? I was able to find and copy the ∞ symbol from there.
Not a terribly elegant solution, but an alternative to copy/paste from Word...
-Lise

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Fei Min Lorente <FeiMin.Lorente at onsemi.com<mailto:FeiMin.Lorente at onsemi.com>> wrote:
I’m working in FrameMaker 10 on Windows 7 and I cannot insert the infinity symbol. According to the FrameMaker character set documentation, it is Unicode 221E, but perhaps all that information is obsolete now. In any case, I tried holding down Alt while I pressed +221e, and all I got was the Edit menu. I can’t find a keyboard shortcut for it. I resorted to getting the symbol in Word and copying and pasting it into FrameMaker, but seriously, is that what I have to do? Or do I have to create an equation and insert the symbol?

My colleague is also working in FrameMaker 10 on Windows 7 and she can’t use the keyboard shortcuts (such as ctrl-q shift-8 to get a TM symbol). She gets other characters instead. She’s resorted to copying and pasting from Word, and those all work except for the infinity symbol. All the information I’ve found on the internet has been for FrameMaker 7 or older. Can anyone tell me what to do for FrameMaker 10?

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