[Framers] Non-breaking en, em dashes

[Lin Sims]

You did! But I had added my name to the bug report and when I got an
update, I thought I'd pass the information along. :)

On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 3:09 PM, Rick Quatro <rick at rickquatro.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> Rick Quatro
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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
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> 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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> > >
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