How do you type a dash em in FM12

[grant at hedgewizard.net]

Alt+150 –
Alt+0151 —
(entered on the number pad)
Works in any Windows app, providing the font selected has the glyphs.
 
Grant 
 

> On February 26, 2015 at 2:24 AM Laura Fergusson <Laura.Fergusson at exterity.com>
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>  I always use Ctrl Q Shift Q for em dash and Ctrl Q Shift P for en dash.
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>  Laura Fergusson | Technical Writer | Exterity Ltd
>  tel: +44 1383 828250 ext 249 | fax: +44 1383 824905   
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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
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>  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.
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>  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.
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>  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.
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>  From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
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> [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
>  To: framers at lists.frameusers.com <mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com>
>  Subject: How do you type a dash em in FM12
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>  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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>  Tom Beiswenger
>  Manager, Technical & Training Documentation, Project Manager - Inspection
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