[Framers] Non-breaking en, em dashes

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Lin,

I am not sure if I suggested it on the list, but you could make a variable for the minus sign and make a character format to make it a bit wider. Then you could insert the variable where you want the negative sign and it would automatically be stretched to your liking. Not the most elegant approach, but workable.

Rick

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-----Original Message-----
From: Framers <framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro.com at lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Lin Sims
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2018 2:38 PM
To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Subject: Re: [Framers] Non-breaking en, em dashes

The minus sign is too short.

Well, maybe I should talk to my coworker about that. The place I last worked mandated use of an en-dash to indicate a negative number. We may not do that here, although I think it's a good idea since it makes it a little easier to distinguish between a minus sign and the sign indicating a negative number.

In any case, having the behaviour return to keep together if there's no space between en/em-dashes and the following number would be nice.

On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 2:30 PM, Böðvar Björgvinsson <bodvar at gmail.com>
wrote:

> You can also use the minus sign (Unicode8) U+2212. That works.
> FM is not very handy at making it easy but you can add it using the 
> Windows Character Map or the FM Utilities > Hex Input.
>
> My 2 bits.
>
> Cheers,
> Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 2018-07-05 18:02 GMT+00:00 Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com>:
>
> > Update on this. I got an email from Adobe yesterday morning that the
> status
> > was changed from Open to In Test.
> >
> > We may have a fix RSN.
> >
> > Also, I believe that the latest FrameMaker update has fixed the 
> > RGB/CMYK bug.
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 10:33 PM, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Used to be if you put an en dash in front of something with no 
> > > space between, the en dash would stick to the something if it 
> > > wrapped to the
> > next
> > > line.
> > >
> > > It doesn't do that anymore, which is bad for me as I use it 
> > > instead of
> a
> > > hyphen to indicate negative numbers. This has been reported as a 
> > > bug to Adobe, but until they fix it (soon? please?), is there a 
> > > *trivial
> > *solution/workaround?
> > > (By trivial, I mean minimal number of steps and time involved.)
> > >
> > > For those interested, the bug is here: https://forums.adobe.
> > > com/thread/2459590
> > >
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