How do you type a dash em in FM12

[Laura Fergusson]

I always use Ctrl Q Shift Q for em dash and Ctrl Q Shift P for en dash.




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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net)
Sent: 24 February 2015 18:59
To: tom.beiswenger at emhartglass.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: How do you type a dash em in FM12

In stock Word, it is usually three dashes to get to an em-dash, two dashes gets you an en-dash (a different character). This is using the auto-correct feature, and you can change its behavior pretty easily too.

Plus (at least in Word 2013 and Office 2013 products) typing a “space, dash, space” followed by another word and then a space converts the “space, dash, space” to “space, en-dash, space”. Not sure which option selects this behavior, but I don’t think it is auto-correct, since the change is elsewhere compared to the text entry location. It is also quite specific – having extra (or missing one) spaces before or after the dash does not work, for example.

In FrameMaker, I just use the ALT 0151 key sequence to get an em-dash. There is also a menu pull-down that allows you to insert various common symbols – not just an em-dash.

Z

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of tom.beiswenger at emhartglass.com<mailto:tom.beiswenger at emhartglass.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 9:09 AM
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Subject: How do you type a dash em in FM12

In earlier versions of Word, when you typed 2 hyphens (--) it would automatically convert to a dash em. Is there any way to do the same or similar in FM12?




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