MIF Accent tag

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December 11, 2013
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We have MIF documents created with pre-Unicode FrameMaker versions that contain text produced with an <Accent> tag. (For instance, .<Accent 52>, which represents ă). Some (or perhaps all) of these characters are not displaying in FM11. This could be because we are missing some fonts, but I'm not sure. Were these numbers built into FrameMaker, or were they set by the authors of the document? If they were built into FrameMaker, is there a chart somewhere that would help us make a crosswalk?

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Arnis Gubins

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The character that was displayed was dependent upon the font that was used and the codepage that was specified, i.e. only 255 characters weer accessible at any time. The FM7 character set is still available here:

http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/framemaker/Character_Sets.pdf

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jgreenbergrilmAuthor

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Thanks Arnis. Just to make sure I understand this: so <Accent 52> would have Hex code \x34, which would have been the character 4 in a regular ASCII font, but happened to be ă in the font that was used, right?

If I'm understanding this correctly, why use the <Accent> tag, and not simply an \x34 hex code?

Arnis Gubins

Inspiring

The <Accent> tag is actually not part of the MIF specification (I checked in the MIF 7 Reference and latest version as well), so it might be something custom.

Your interpretation is correct, but be aware that the hexcodes do change above 127 for symbol encoded vs text encoded fonts.

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