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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
    Community Expert
    Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 28, 2011

    For FM8 and later on Windows, an easy way to enter a known code point...

    > is to hold down the key and type 2794 on the numpad.

    As I recall, that didn't work for me. I couldn't enter Unicode

    characters, but someone posted instructions on the FrameUsers list that

    got things going:

    http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/2011-August/023891.html

    It involves making a change to the EnableHexNumpad registry key. Then

    you hold down the Alt key and type a plus sign, followed by the

    four-digit Unicode number.

    According to the note, some Windows applications have a "RichEdit" mode

    that allows omitting the plus sign, but FM is not one of them.

    For convenience, if you create a plain text file called

    Turn_Unicode_Keypad_On.reg and put the following text in it (the text is

    between the lines), double clicking the file will insert the correct

    registry key without having to manually create it from within the registry:


    As I recall, that didn't work for me.

    Probably while you were composing your responses, I edited mine to reflect the reg hack.

    For convenience, if you create a plain text file called

    Turn_Unicode_Keypad_On.reg and put the following text in it (the text is

    between the lines), double clicking the file ...

    I suspect that requires Admin privileges (or should - it seems extremely risky). I'd expect making mods with regedit.exe to also require admin.

    In any case, the reg hack details are widely documented, even on Wiki.

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