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Dean26979497uf2y
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inserting a checkbox as a bullet

  • July 29, 2023
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I am trying to replace the buller with a checkbox in a paragraph style in framemaker 2019. I understand that I should be using unicode text, and am close ... but not quite there. in the paragraph designer, I enter, for example:

\t\u2714 

to start the paragraph with a tab and check. I've tried a lot of unicodes; many don't work at all. a few work in that they display correctly in the paragraph designer, but they show up as a "?" in the actual paragraph. 

what am I missing?  thanks for any guidance.

 

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      Correct answer Bob_Niland

      ☐ in Wingdings is at codepoint 0xA8

      In most fonts, with no character format applied, that's:
      ¨ U+00A8 DIAERESIS

      Doing it as a Character Format, using a legacy overlay font like Wingdings is apt to have unexpected results in various output workflows. PDF & print are apt to work; HTML, who knows. It's relying on the font declaration to replace the glyph for what would normally be, and may appear as ¨

      Instead consider native Unicode for that box. Unicode has about a dozen candidates boxes, but this is usually the match for that Wingding in most Unicode fonts:
      ☐ U+2610 BALLOT BOX
      That would be \u2610 in the Autonumber dialog box, which FM will immediately collapse to ☐

      Not all of Wingdings has been mapped into Unicode (0xFF for example), but much has, and avoids both surprise glyphs in the output, and broken Xrefs.

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      FrameMaker-dkCommunity Expert
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      July 29, 2023

      You can create a character style using WingDings using the checkbox character, like this:

      Copy/paste the checkbox character from the character pallette to the numbering Format line in Paragraph Designer.

      In the paragraph styles numbering setup, you can then add the character style like this

       

       

      Bjørn Smalbro - FrameMaker.dk
        Bob_Niland
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        Bob_NilandCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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        July 30, 2023

        ☐ in Wingdings is at codepoint 0xA8

        In most fonts, with no character format applied, that's:
        ¨ U+00A8 DIAERESIS

        Doing it as a Character Format, using a legacy overlay font like Wingdings is apt to have unexpected results in various output workflows. PDF & print are apt to work; HTML, who knows. It's relying on the font declaration to replace the glyph for what would normally be, and may appear as ¨

        Instead consider native Unicode for that box. Unicode has about a dozen candidates boxes, but this is usually the match for that Wingding in most Unicode fonts:
        ☐ U+2610 BALLOT BOX
        That would be \u2610 in the Autonumber dialog box, which FM will immediately collapse to ☐

        Not all of Wingdings has been mapped into Unicode (0xFF for example), but much has, and avoids both surprise glyphs in the output, and broken Xrefs.

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          Dean26979497uf2yAuthor
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          July 30, 2023

          I spoke too soon.  bob's solution seems correct, and the \u2610 code displays as a checkbox in the paragraph designer autonumber dialog box. but in the actual text paragraph, it displays as a "?". am I missing something? thanks. 

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