Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character

Thu Feb 20 12:02:10 PST 2014

And if this isn't too late to the party:

Alt+236 produces the infinity symbol in the Arial font.
Ctrl+q+4 produces the infinity symbol in the Symbol font (looks a bit
bolded compared to Arial).

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 3:59 AM, Davis, David <David.Davis at invensys.com>wrote:

> Fei Min, there's a bit of confusion going on here!
>
> When you say...
>
> > it is Unicode 221E, but perhaps all that information is obsolete now
>
> The Unicode standard is not obsolete, it is alive and well at
> http://www.unicode.org  :)  It is not something defined by Adobe
> FrameMaker or Microsoft Windows.
>
> >  In any case, I tried holding down Alt while I pressed +221e
>
> The Windows operating system doesn't give you access to Unicode characters
> by that method, so that's why that didn't work! :)
>
> The utility bundled with Windows to get to them is the venerable Character
> Map tool (quickest way to launch it is press Windows+R, type "charmap" and
> press return, and up it pops...)
> Its search function is not very good though, and it doesn't show you the
> characters unless the currently-selected font has a glyph for it - a bit
> useless, really.
>
> If you want something a bit more rigorous and heavy duty for finding
> exotic Unicode characters, I'd recommend the free Babel Map utility
> http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html
>
> Your method of cutting-and-pasting the character you want from Word isn't
> so very wrong though! - with either Character Map or Babel Map, that is
> still the method you have to use: find your character in the utility, then
> copy and paste it into Frame.
> (The reason in may go wrong in Word is because Word might be showing a
> character using a 'Dingbat' font, which substitutes a different glyph for a
> different character... so when Frame renders that character with a
> different font, you don't get the glyph you were expecting).
>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 19:33:50 +0000
> From: Fei Min Lorente <FeiMin.Lorente at onsemi.com>
> To: "framers at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
> Subject: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character
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> 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?
>
> Fei Min Lorente
> Senior Technical Communicator
> Medical and Wireless Division
> feimin.lorente at onsemi.com<mailto:feimin.lorente at onsemi.com>
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