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1newtonya
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March 25, 2011
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French Language symbols

  • March 25, 2011
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Does anyone know how to create the double symbols in the following example within FrameMaker 9 (Windows XP SP3)?

Are there Alt numbers that will do it. I'm doing a copy/paste special of French text from Word into Frame and the symbols are coming in as quotes instead. I do have my system set up for the French Canadian Language along with the paragraph and character styles set to French Canadian.:

« Protection des renseignements sur les titulaires »

Thanks!

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Michael_Müller-Hillebrand
Michael_Müller-Hillebrand
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March 26, 2011

Tonya,

Are you saying that the «guillemets» are changed to “quotes” during the paste? A test:

  1. In Word: Make sure the text is formatted with Arial or Times New Roman or Georgia (or any of the Windows standard text fonts).
  2. Select text and copy to clipboard.
  3. In FrameMaker: Edit > Paste Special, select UNICODE TEXT.

What appears in FrameMaker?

The Alt codes are Alt+0171 and Alt+0187 and you should use a non-breaking space for the space between guillemet and letter. You could also try the key sequence Ctrl+q G and Ctrl+q H

- Michael

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1newtonyaAuthor
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March 28, 2011

Yes, the «guillemets» are changed to “quotes” during the paste. The Unicode did the trick for the new "pastes" and the ALT codes fixed the existing ones.

Thanks for the quick response and the info! All my best,

Dawn

From: Michael Müller-Hillebrand

Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 2:49 AM

To: Dawn Voelker

Subject: French Language symbols

Tonya,

Are you saying that the «guillemets» are changed to “quotes” during the paste? A test:

1. In Word: Make sure the text is formatted with Arial or Times New Roman or Georgia (or any of the Windows standard text fonts).

2. Select text and copy to clipboard.

3. In FrameMaker: Edit > Paste Special, select UNICODE TEXT.

What appears in FrameMaker?

The Alt codes are Alt0171 and Alt0187 and you should use a non-breaking space for the space between guillemet and letter. You could also try the key sequence Ctrlq G and Ctrlq H

- Michael

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