Now here's a strange thing. One of the bad character transpositions is the substitution of a '5' for an '='.
If I create a new equation in the document that has the bad equations and insert an equality into it, I get a '? 5 ?' rather than a '? = ?' as expected. However, if I create a new blank document and do the same thing there, I get '? = ? as expected. It gets better: if I copy the '? = ?' from the clean FrameMaker document into the weird one, it is transformed into '? 5 ?'! Thus it seems to be to do with the FrameMaker document and not with any weird font-type problem. I tried MIF-washing the document in question, but it had no effect. I'm stumped. Anyone any ideas? At 16:58 +0100 2/9/07, Steve Rickaby wrote: >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'. > >. ? (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
