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Chris Hembel
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January 1, 2013
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What happened to Find/Change Special Characters

  • January 1, 2013
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I am a recent update from FrameMaker 9 to FrameMaker 11. I use many notations with non-breaking hyphens and non-breaking spaces. In version 9 I was able to use the hex codes in the Find/Change dialog box and find and replace those notations. Now in version 11, it does not find those characters. I end up finding more than I want.

For Example: I want to find

 

(E-Vote Sept. 12, 2008)

This text has a non-breaking hyphen and the spaces shown are non-breaking also. When I entered these characters into the document, I used "Esc hyphen h" key sequence for the hyphen and "Control+space" for the spaces.

When I enter "(E\x15Vote\x10Sept.\x1012,\x102008)" and press the Find button, FrameMaker converts the text to "(E\+Vote\s#Sept.\s#12,\s#2008)" and returns with a statement "Not Found." I get the same error if I copy the text and paste it into the Find/Change Dialog box. I have tried this with the "Consider Case," "Use Wildcards" and the "Whole Word" checks both off and on. I can't get it to find it.

Honestly, I never noticed if verstion 9 did the conversion, from \x15 to \+ and \x10 to \s#, in the Find/Change dialog box because it always found what I was looking for.

I hope someone can tell me how to fix this because this is a function that I use all the time in FrameMaker. I use non-breaking hyphens and spaces all over my documents.

I have also reported this as a bug because that is what if feels like to me. I did go out and updated my installation of FrameMaker, thinking that this may have been reported and fixed already.

One Sad FrameMaker User

Chris

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Correct answer bowen192

I'm not sure this is what you're looking for, but you could;

Copy your 'E-Vote Sept. 12, 2008' text

Go to Find/Change

Select Text & Character Formats on Clipboard from the dropdown menu

Click Find.

2 replies

Arnis Gubins
Arnis Gubins
Inspiring
January 2, 2013

FM is just trying to substitute in the appropriate dialog box codes for the display and find.

The codes can be found here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/WSd817046a44e105e21e63e3d11ab7f7862b-7fd5.html

The non-breaking hyphen is "\+" and a non-breaking space is "\ ".  You can also use the unicode values (\unnnn) to find these. A non-breaking space is 00A0 and the non-breaking hyphen is 2011.

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Chris HembelAuthor
Known Participant
January 3, 2013

Arnis,

I have The special character codes. I have been using them for years. I find that I can use the \+ to find the non-breaking hyphen, but I can't figure out how to find the non-breaking space. I am working with the FrameMaker Engineering Team to see if they can re-create my error. I can't figure out what I am doing wrong. As I said earlier, I have been doing this for a lot of years.

I love FrameMaker and I think it is the best software for handling large documentation. I am so bummed that this is giving me problems.

thanks for trying anyway.

Chris

Arnis Gubins
Arnis Gubins
Inspiring
January 3, 2013

Chris,

As I stated in my reply, to find a non-breaking space, use "\ " [that's a backslash and space] to find a non-breaking space.

bowen192
bowen192Correct answer
Inspiring
January 2, 2013

I'm not sure this is what you're looking for, but you could;

Copy your 'E-Vote Sept. 12, 2008' text

Go to Find/Change

Select Text & Character Formats on Clipboard from the dropdown menu

Click Find.

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Chris HembelAuthor
Known Participant
January 3, 2013

bowen192,

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much. I still want to know why I could use the dialog box codes in the Find/Change dialog box. I have been doing that for years with no problem Your solution does work though so I can use it as a work around.

thanks so much!!!

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