Breaking underscore in FM

[Debbie34984295jih4]

Our developers have highlighted that content in our documentation with subscripts (for example - for the term tSTAB_DB - where "STAB_DB" is subscript) containing underscores is breaking across two lines.

For example "tstab_db" breaks at the underscore and appears on 2 lines as if a carriage return were present (when copied with formatting and pasted).

Also, these terms are not searchable in a PDF. Searches for complete terms are inconsistent. You can search on "tstab" but not for "tstab_db". 

How should this content be entered into FM so that this does not happen when accessing the content in a PDF?

[Debbie34984295jih4]

[Winfried Reng]

Hi,

I just tested this here. The text after the underscore breaks only, if the text is at the end of a line.

I can also search in Acrobat for the text including the subscript text without any problems.

When I copy this text from the PDF and paste it in Word or NotePad++ or FrameMaker, there aren't any line breaks.

Strange.

Do you still have this issue?

Do you also have this issue, if you just test this with the FrameMaker default template and not with your company template?

Can you show us the settings in the Character Designer for your subscript format? Are all settings defined in your subscript format or do you also have some As Is settings?

Which PDF application do you and your developers use?

Which font do you use?

Do you use the structured or unstructured interface in FrameMaker?

Best regards, Winfried

[Debbie34984295jih4]

This goes back to my initial premise that something came along for the ride with the initial copy/paste process - I found the issue in my original source document. Using Notedpad ++ does not fix the issue. The only work-around has to locate an instance where it works correctly and then paste to non-functioning text. 

We apply the standard "subscript" checkbox in Character Designer using:

Font: Arial

and Structured FM