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

Robert Lauriston robert at lauriston.com
Thu Jul 5 17:18:43 PDT 2018


The problem was that the font did not have a glyph for the specified Unicode.

On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 5:15 PM, Böðvar Björgvinsson <bodvar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Böðvar Björgvinsson <bodvar at gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 11:30 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Framers] Non-breaking en, em dashes
>> To: "An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software."
>> <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
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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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