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Degree Symbol

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April 18, 2011
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Have just tried adding the degree symbol to the Symbols menu. The label appeared but when I tried to use it 'x' was inserted instead of the degree symbol. Suspect the definition (<Definition \xB0>) is incorrect. Have tried changing the cmds definition to something that does work (plusminus <Definition \xB1>) and all seems okay with that.

I am using FM9.0p196 on Windows 7.

Tried searching the forum for this topic but have been having trouble getting any results for even the simplest search criteria!

Cheers

Stu

Correct answer Arnis Gubins

Stuart,

What you originally had specified (\xb0) is the encoding for a degree using the Symbol font. For the equivalent ring character in a standard font, the FM encoding is \xfb or ANSI 0176. However, when adding these items to the menus, FM uses the command definitions encoded in the \fminit\configui\wincmds.cfg file. These command definitions uttilize the platform specific keystrokes to circumvent unicode encoding issues.

To add the Degree symbol definition to the SpecialSymbols menu in the menus.cfg file, it should be entered as:

where the CharDegree is (re)defined in the wincmds.cfg using the keystroke, i.e.

For future reference, if you want to add any more special charactters to the SpecialSymbols menu, use FM's pre-defined commands. They are all defined in the wincmds.cfg file starting at line 574 in the "-- Universal Extension to Ascii Characters " section.

Bob_Niland

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Tried searching the forum for this topic but have been having trouble getting any results for even the simplest search criteria!

That's a standard feature on a surprising number of internet forums.

What I do is:

Use an external search engine, such as Google.
Use their "Advanced Search" page.
Restrict the site or domain to: forums.adobe.com
Always put "framemaker" in the must-find (AND) word list

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Anonymous

Stuart, you mentioned FM9.0p196 -- there are several updates since then, p196 has some nasty gotchas.

Note that FM updates are not roll-up, so you need to install each one in sequence.

Updates - Adobe - FrameMaker : For Windows

Sheila

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Anonymous

Sheila,

Thanks for info. Have recently had a new machine and IT types had set updates to manual. Have sorted it.

Stu

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Anonymous

Have just stumbled across answer. Change cmds definition to \xfb an

d it works.

Arnis GubinsCorrect answer

Inspiring

Stuart,

What you originally had specified (\xb0) is the encoding for a degree using the Symbol font. For the equivalent ring character in a standard font, the FM encoding is \xfb or ANSI 0176. However, when adding these items to the menus, FM uses the command definitions encoded in the \fminit\configui\wincmds.cfg file. These command definitions uttilize the platform specific keystrokes to circumvent unicode encoding issues.

To add the Degree symbol definition to the SpecialSymbols menu in the menus.cfg file, it should be entered as:

where the CharDegree is (re)defined in the wincmds.cfg using the keystroke, i.e.

For future reference, if you want to add any more special charactters to the SpecialSymbols menu, use FM's pre-defined commands. They are all defined in the wincmds.cfg file starting at line 574 in the "-- Universal Extension to Ascii Characters " section.

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Anonymous

Arnis,

Thanks for that.

Stu

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Anonymous

Stu, try pressing Ctrl + q, release, then press Shift + {.

Ron Tillotson

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johnc12084905

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Great suggestion - right to the point!

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