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Lori J Brown
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October 27, 2011
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Arrow characters in Frame 9

  • October 27, 2011
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Greetings,

Trying to create a right arrow in Frame 9. The ADOBE® FRAMEMAKER ®9 Character Sets document page 15 says this:

0174 \xae Control+q . → arrowright

Pressing Alt (with NumLock on) plus 0174 doesn't work. Neither does the keyboard shortcut. What is the best way? The File -> Utilities -> Hex Input doesn't work either. The Character palette shows the item I need, but it inserts something else other than the picture. I've tried various fonts.

Thanks!

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    Correct answer Arnis Gubins

    Try this:

    1. Insert the code, e.g. alt+0174, and you should see the Register symbol: ®

    2. Select that character.

    3. Apply the Symbol character style that you created.

    4. You should now see the right arrow.

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    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    October 27, 2011

    Lori,

    You need to set that specific character to the Symbol font for this to work, e.g. create a Character style.

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    Lori J BrownAuthor
    Participant
    October 27, 2011

    Greetings--I created a Character style with the Symbol font, but am still getting the wrong symbol. Am doing something wrong...

    Bob_Niland
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    Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 27, 2011

    That works--thanks!


    Another arrow tip (cloned from an older thread), if you're going to use the traditional character format override method:

    I only ever type special characters (or more usually, hex codes), into create Variable dialogs.

    Frame's "arrowright", for example, would be:
    Name: char.symbol.arrowright
    Definition: <Symbol>\xae<Default ¶ Font>

    ... where Character Format "Symbol" already exists, and it is:

    Family: Symbol

    everything else As-Is or blank (which is as-is).

    In addition to saving the bother of looking up key sequences or hex codes more than once per document, doing special characters as Variables also:

    • eliminates the annoyance of subsequent characters being in the alternate font, and
    • eliminates false positive spell check errors
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