[Framers] Including a non-breaking hyphen in a variable

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I didn't see the original query, but the answer is actually contained in almost every edition of the hard-copy manual. Look in the appendixes for one called "Typing in dialog boxes". This appendix contains tables listing all of the "escape codes" for characters that cannot be typed directly with a single keyboard keystroke. For the Windows version of Framemaker, the "escape" character is the backslash, which is the first character of every one of the listed codes.

-FR
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Subject: Re: [Framers] Including a non-breaking hyphen in a variable

The more I dig into long-unused memory to look for what I used to know
about FM, the less I find, because there's too much dust and rust in the
way. Instead, I try a Web search, and find how true it is that "nothing
every dies on the internet." Have you tried something like "framemaker
non-breaking hyphen in variable"? There's a ton of results. At least a few
might be correct.

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 6:41 PM Craig, Alison GLI/CA <
acraig at greenlightinnovation.com> wrote:

> Windows 10
> FrameMaker subscription (fully updated).
>
> We use a project number format to identify our custom projects (eg,
> G19-6820, H21-2500, etc).
>
> I always turn the project numbers into variables but I can't figure out to
> make the hyphen into a non-breaking version when I create the variable.
>
> I know it has something to do with a backslash (\), but I'm not sure what
> else is involved.
>
>
> Alison
> Technical Writer, Engineering, Greenlight Innovation
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