How to draw a box around characters

Question

Hello,I'm trying to figure out a way to draw a box around characters to indicate certain keyboard actions. For example, I'd like to draw a box around CR to indicate Carriage return and LF for line feed. I need to include these this kind of thing a number of times throughout the document. I was trying to use a table (which might work) or text frame but thus far, I couldn't get it the way I wanted. Plus, I was hoping that there might be an easier way to do it. Here is an example of what I am trying to do. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Matt-Tech Comm Tools · Accepted Answer

*I noticed my first screen capture didn't show the character designer settings. I've updated to include the settings I used in the example.

Here's an example, using Winfried Reng's suggestion of using a character tag to control the "box" and the color of the text. Note that because LF has both a leading and trailing space, Smart Spaces needs to be turned off in Format > Document > Text Options, or you need to place the LF and character tag in a variable.

While this doesn't have a box around the characters like your example, the text and background color can be whatever you want.

Placing the text and character tag in a variable would also give you an easy way to quickly and consistently insert the codes you need.

Bob_Niland · Answer

What's the semantic context here?I haven't seen a keyboard with a LineFeed cap since the ASR 33 teletype, and don't ever recall seeing one that had a Return/Enter key actually labeled "CR" or "CarriageReturn". The only key usually seen nowadays is "Enter↵" (and even that will vary by localization).When I've had this requirement, I usually rely on a keycap-style font, or use a custom embedded vector graphic enclosing actual text (Frame graphics or SVG).In a Unicode future that may not be near us, and a suitably populated font, the literal enclosed CR and LFs might be implemented with:U+240D SYMBOL FOR CARRIAGE RETURNU+240A SYMBOL FOR LINE FEEDU+20E3 COMBINING ENCLOSING KEYCAP

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