[Framers] Fwd: Non-breaking en, em dashes

Böðvar Björgvinsson bodvar at gmail.com
Thu Jul 5 17:18:24 PDT 2018


You know, there is a slight difference between en-dash and the minus sign
(dash). The minus dash has a slight space (maybe half or whole thin space)
at each side of it.

Bodvar





2018-07-06 0:15 GMT+00:00 Böðvar Björgvinsson <bodvar at gmail.com>:

> The font has to support UTF8, of course! :-)
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> 2018-07-05 18:37 GMT+00:00 Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>:
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>> I've had problems with that when the character I was inserting was not
>> available in the current font. If I remember right, FrameMaker
>> silently grabs the character from another font and applies direct
>> formatting?
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>> Date: Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 11:30 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Framers] Non-breaking en, em dashes
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>> 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.users.com
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