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

[Reng Winfried]

Hi,

I created a bug report in the Adobe Tracker.
https://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/FRMAKER-11682

I only added the request to add a cross-reference from the section
about special characters.
Feel free to vote and add your suggestions.

Best regards

Winfried

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I agree that it would have been a lot better if they used a title like "Typing special characters? in dialog boxes".

-FR
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I worked in Archives in my misspent youth, creating archival entries for new collections. A side effect was learning to create great queries that have stood me in good stead since the internet "came along".

A big exception is trying to find a specific way to do something in Frame, either on the web or in the manual.

I would never have looked for "Typing in dialog boxes".

Thanks!

Alison


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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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From: Framers <framers-bounces+docudoc=hotmail.com at lists.frameusers.com> on behalf of Peter Gold <peter at petergold.photography>
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2022 8:42 PM
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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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