Help with symbols and fractions

[lsk2002]

I am using Framemaker 9. Is there an easy way to type inch marks and fractions with super and subscript numbers? I did find where to change quotation marks to inch symbols in text, but need to also do this in text boxes. But turning smart quotes on and off seems to be a little much everytime, especially as much as we use the inch mark symbol. When I go to the Character Palete under File/Utilities and click on the inch mark symbol, it types a two, then I have to change the font to symbol in the document which seems like a little to much just to get the inch mark symbol. When I try to super and sub for a fraction in the character palete, it will not super or sub just the number highlighted.I have tried the hex code shortcut and I get a quotation mark. I know I am missing something pretty simple. Will someone give me a simple answer? Also I would like to be able to find and replace quotation marks to inch marks.

Thanks,

lsk

[Van Kurtz]

To my knowledge, the only font that has TRUE inch marks is the Symbol font, hence the need to change the font to symbol. I do not know, but I do not think that true inch marks is a unicode character.

Some people use straight, as opposed to curly, quotation marks (also called typewriter inch marks or tick marks) as inch marks. I do not like that, so I take the time to convert to the Symbol font.

[lsk2002]

What I have found out, is that if I turn the smart quotes off, I will get what we use for inch marks. Since we don't use

quotation marks that often, I can use Alt0147 and Alt0148 for open and closed quotations with the Num Lock key turned on and it also works in the

find and change box also...which is cool....! Still haven't figured out the fraction super and sub script. Any idea?

Thanks,

lsk

[ThomasT1000]

Isn't double prime used for inches? U+2033

[Michael_Müller-Hillebrand-basb]

Isk,

you are using FrameMaker 9 with all Unicode capabilities. So you can take advantage of modern fonts with many more than just the so-called ANSI characters. My favorite tool to find them is PopChar. E.g. Palatino Linotype contains all digits for super- and subscript numbers, as well as the fraction bar. You would find them as well using Charmap.exe, but searching for fonts which contains certains characters is one of the features of PopChar

http://ergonis.com/products/popcharwin/

See attached screen shots.

- Michael