I'm not positive, because I don't work with equations all that often,
but I think you can specify different fonts, just as you would with
text. So it's possible that the Mac font isn't named the same as the
original and something is being substituted. Any console messages?

Art

On 9/2/07, Steve Rickaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear FramerUsers
>
> Is anyone aware of an issue that could cause character transposition when 
> moving FrameMaker documents containing FrameMaker equations from one platform 
> [Windows] to another [Mac]? Some embedded equations have suffered the 
> following character transpositions:
>
> . Summation symbols are replaced by an inverted 'V'
>
> . Dot product symbol is replaced by a question mark
>
> . Subscripted equals is replaced by a '5'.
>
> . ½ (pi) symbol is replaced by a 'p'
>
> . '+' symbol is replaced by '1'
>
> There may also be other substitutions I have not noticed. Clearly this does 
> not help the readability of the equations much.
>
> I have always been under the impression that FrameMaker used the same font 
> [Symbol] for equations across all platforms. I have certainly never seen 
> anything like this before, and I've worked on books with *lots* of equations 
> in the past.
>
> As far as I am aware, the originator of the documents is not using FrameMaker 
> 8, but beyond that I'm not sure what version he's using yet, although I've 
> asked several times.
>
> --
> Steve
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