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

[Peter Gold]

I  think that Lynne Price might be able to correct me, if I’m way off on
this, but IIRC the original creators of FM were more language-oriented
rather than code-oriented. That is, they were working to make it possible
to use the emerging computational technologies to serve language users –
writers, researchers, documentation and information creators and
retrievers. "Typing in dialog boxes" seemed strange to me when I first
encountered it. I figured out that the engineers must have had to deal with
the special conditions that applied to "special" characters typed within in
the dialog box environment that were different from the conditions that
applied to "special" characters entered in document text. The explanation
in the topic title is simply accurate, but it's not useful writers whose
interest is about managing the demands of language, rather than those of
programming.

Like the proverbial vaudeville dog who stood on hind legs, sang
(hideously), and accompanied itself on the piano, the miracle was that FM
could do all the things it could early-on, out-of-the-box c. 1989, at all!

InDesign, for all its savvy and sophisticated text-manipulation ability,
solves the problem this way: "Adding too much text to a variable may cause
overset or compressed text. Variable text does not break across lines."
Hmmm…?!

On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 3:57 PM Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's \+
>
> If you download this file, it's a bunch of keyboard shortcuts, including a
> number for how to enter weird things like non-breaking spaces and hyphens
> in fields. Feel free to adapt it to your own use.
>
> https://www.frameusers.com/uploads/2016/08/ShortcutInfo.zip
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 8:43 PM Peter Gold <peter at petergold.photography>
> wrote:
>
> > 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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