Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems

[Ted Steinberg]

Red Face = I "found" the utilities under file to the right of the column I
repeatedly stared at instead of looking around.

Red Face returning to Green as in Beginner's Green.

Thanks for sending me back to the place were it always was!

TED


On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Matt Sullivan <sullivanmattr at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ted, there's nothing wrong with doing what you're doing, but it takes more
> keystrokes than other options.
>
> In Fm12 I have File > Utilities > Character Palette... you may want to check
> View > Menus to see whether you have somehow clipped your menu selections.
>
> For the shortcuts Fred mentioned and more, see
> http://mattrsullivan.com/blog/fm/insert-infinity-char/, where I explain
> in more detail how to get what you want, and have links to the Adobe PDFs
> that are easier to reference than the online help lists.
>
>
> -Matt
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> On Feb 15, 2014, at 11:20 AM, Ted Steinberg <mtedsteinberg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I am using FrameMaker 12, unstructured = I don't see utilities under
> the file menu. Where would I find this ability to do diacriticals et al,
> and TM, Registered, et al?
>
> My workaround is to use windows character map, from which I copy and paste
> the symbol I want, regardless of how it looks, into my frame document, then
> I go to Frame's Character Catalogue and select the "default paragraph font"
> and that does it. I have not had an incompatibility issue because I think I
> am using well known adobe fonts. Am l AOK with this or an accident waiting
> to happen?
>
> *Is the above workaround the best solution or does Frame 12 have a better
> one?*
>
> Thanks,
>
> TED
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Fred Ridder <docudoc at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ed Noodland wrote:
>>
>> >Framemaker does not appear to handle hexadecimal values
>> >using the ALT + numeric keypad values.  It does handle
>> >decimal values but I can't determine what the different
>> >code points (character values) are mapped to. ALT+8734
>> >results in a solid triangle for me.
>>
>> But as of FrameMaker 9, there is a tool that allows input of hexadecimal
>> (Unicode) character numbers. Look at File>Utilities>Hex Input. Not as
>> convenient as the Alt-key, but it works.
>>
>> -Fred Ridder
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