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judsha
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May 9, 2010
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Adding the Trademark symbol to a document

  • May 9, 2010
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I want to add the trademark symbol (TM) in my document. I added it to the Reference page in the Character Macros table (like they said in the Adobe help file). But, what next? How do I insert it in the document? I don't see it listed in the Character Designer list.


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    rstern8
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    October 24, 2014

    <sup>TM </sup>

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    Syed_Zaeem_Hosain
    Participating Frequently
    October 24, 2014

    Seriously? I hope you don't do it that way! A super-scripted two characters "TM" is not the same as the Trademark character that is what a good document should contain.

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    Bob_Niland
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    Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
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    October 25, 2014

    > A super-scripted two characters "TM" is not the same as the Trademark character ...

    It's also going to break hypertext links if the string it's in is used for any list generation (TOC, IX, etc.).

    In FM8 and later, use the Unicode character U+2122, entered as \u2122 in dialogs (such as to create a variable to represent it). It's a single character code point, inherently superscripted. I presume that on Windows ALT+0153 is mapped to it, as is the legacy Framemaker dialog notation \TM

    If ™ doesn't appear, then either the font is a legacy codepage implementation, or if a Unicode font, the font failed to populate a glyph for codepoint 2122.

    mandrill22
    mandrill22
    Inspiring
    May 11, 2010

    Hello Judy:

    To further confuse you with options see picture below:

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    Anonymous
    May 10, 2010

    If you're using FM 9, the TM symbol should be available from the Character Palette, File > Utilities > Character Palette.

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    Mike Wickham
    Inspiring
    May 9, 2010

    You know, I didn't even know there was a Character Macros feature on a

    reference page, so I looked it up. It appears that it is there only for

    converting characters to an HTML equivalent. So the macros set up there make

    the conversions only when the file is saved as HTML. For example, if you use

    ^q* to insert a trademark symbol in your document, when you save to HTML,

    the trademark character will convert to whatever you set, such as "(tm)."

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    Mike Wickham
    Inspiring
    May 9, 2010

    You don't need to put the trademark symbol on a reference page. Just type

    ^q* wherever you want to insert it in your text.

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    judshaAuthor
    Known Participant
    May 10, 2010

    Thanks for your answer. I guess I need a little more direction. When I

    type ^q*, do I have to choose a character format type

    ? When I type the characters in my "Boby

    " fomat, I see exactly what I type. How do I get the TM symbol?

    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    May 10, 2010

    ^q*  = ctrl key.then "q", then shift key, then "8"

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