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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...

    Michael314
    Michael314
    Inspiring
    October 28, 2011

    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

    Error,

    This topic caught my eye. Thanks for the technical tips.

    1. I was able to figure out how to create the variable so as to insert the right arrow. You might have said "First, you need to create a character format named "Symbol" (Family:Symbol and all other font settings "as-is") so that it's selectable from the Character Formats list in the Create Variable dialog box."

    When you said "... where Character Format "Symbol" already exists,"

    I looked at my list and it did not yet exist. I then re-read your reply and realized I needed to create it.

    2. When you mentioned Unicode arrows, how exactly do you enter the code? I checked the Framemaker Character Sets doc and it does not explain how to enter them. (Framemaker 7.2)

    Yours,

    Michael F

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