[Framers] [WTF ramemaker] RE: Anyone know of a way to include a non-breaking hyphen/dash in a variable definition?

[Art Campbell]

\x15 is working!

Didn't try the other possible solutions yet.


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On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 2:36 PM, David Artman <david at davidartman.com> wrote:

> How about:
>      \x15
> ...or:
>      \x2011
> ...?
> \x15 is a VERY old way to do it, but perhaps not hamstrung yet? The \x2011
> is me guessing at a way the modern Unicode hex value could be inserted for
> interpretation by FM.
> Alternately, type one or insert one using the symbols palette, copy it,
> and see if it pastes into the definition?
>
> There's GOT to be a way... similarly, thinspace is often a critical one,
> for volatile (or scoped/personalized) measurements and their units of
> measure.
>
> HTH;
> David
>
> --------- Original Message --------- Subject: Re: [Framers] [WTF
> ramemaker] RE: Anyone know of a way to include a non-breaking hyphen/dash
> in a variable definition?
> From: "Art Campbell" <art.campbell at gmail.com>
> Date: 10/10/17 2:23 pm
> To: "Rick Quatro" <rick at rickquatro.com>
> Cc: "Framers List" <writers--techies-on-framemaker at googlegroups.com>, "An
> email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software." <
> framers at lists.frameusers.com>
>
> Nope, that's not it...
>
>
>  Art Campbell
> ...
>
>  On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Rick Quatro <rick at rickquatro.com>
> wrote:
>
>  > Hi Art,
>  >
>  > Try \+ in the dialog box.
>  >
>  > Rick
>  >
>  > Rick Quatro
> ...
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Subject: [Framers] Anyone know of a way to include a non-breaking
>  > hyphen/dash in a variable definition?
>  >
>  > On FM '17
> ...
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