Thank you Richard, does it mean I can't just select a character and with a simple command get its ASCII displayed? That's what I'm essentially after. Michael
>From: "Combs, Richard" <richard.combs at Polycom.com> >To: "Michael Zaichenko" <biozaichenko at hotmail.com>,<athloi at yahoo.com> >CC: <framers at lists.frameusers.com> >Subject: RE: ASCII IN FRAMESCRIPT >Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:31:40 -0600 > >Michael Zaichenko wrote: > > > Thanks Chris, > > this seems to be a one way road: number into letter. How > > about the other way around. I need to know what ascii or hex > > number a certain letter is. I have a far too sophisticated > > script that loops through characters and assigns them codes > > and displays you a corresponding number. Is there a "natural" > > way of getting this information? > >I may be misunderstanding the question (I'm not sure what you mean by >"natural" or what your script is doing). But a character's ANSI or hex >code doesn't change, so why do you need a way to determine it >programmatically? It seems to me that your script just needs a reference >source -- a text file or whatever -- where it can look this up. You may >need to create this reference. :-) > >See Character_Sets.pdf (in the OnlineManuals subdirectory of your >$FMHOME directory) for all the ANSI and hex code values for the >FrameMaker character sets. If you have the full Acrobat, you might try >saving this file as RTF. From there, judicious editing should yield a >suitable reference text file. > >Richard > > >------ >Richard G. Combs >Senior Technical Writer >Polycom, Inc. >richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom >303-223-5111 >------ >rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom >303-777-0436 >------ > > > > _________________________________________________________________ F? 250 MB gratis lagerplads p? MSN Hotmail: http://www.hotmail.com
