Re: [Framers] Inserting checkmark in a table cell (FM12)
Why not just create a Character tag/style set only to Wingdings2. Type in a capitol P or R in the cells you want checkmarks in. Select the cells and apply the style? (I did this 2019, not 12, but I think it would be the same.) David Creamer IDEAS Training ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] Inserting checkmark in a table cell (FM12)
One thing that is not intuitively obvious is that you cannot use the displayed Unicode character number when using the Windows Alt-key shortcut for entering extended characters. The problem is that Unicode character numbers are always expressed in hexadecimal while the Alt-key shortcut works with the Windows Code Page 1252 character numbers, which are decimal numbers. For example, the character for a lower-case N with tilde is Unicode character 00F1, but its Windows CP1252 character number is 0241 (i.e., 0xF1 equals decimal 241). The converse is also true: one cannot use the CP1252 decimal number (the Alt-code number) when referencing Unicode character numbers. (Actually, the first 9 characters, where the decimal and hexadecimal representations both require only a single digit, are identical in CP1252 and Unicode, but 9 points out of the 65,535 possible Unicode values is pretty trivial.) For those of you who have not been mentally translating between decimal and hexadecimal for most of the last 25 years, the Windows calculator tool in "Programmer" mode makes this really easy. Any value you enter in decimal, hexadecimal, octal, and binary is simultaneously displayed in all four radices (or radixes, if you prefer). -FR From: Framers on behalf of Shmuel Wolfson Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 5:59 AM To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. ; Lin Sims Subject: Re: [Framers] Inserting checkmark in a table cell (FM12) Maybe this is clear to some people, but I thought I might clarify this since I just figured it out myself. Alt+ works for Unicode fonts as well, but only for the first 255 characters of the font. ANSI fonts are 8-bit fonts, which only have 255 characters. Unicode fonts have a very large number of characters, but you can still use Alt+ for the first 255 characters of the Unicode font. In the Windows Character Map, if you select the Advanced view checkbox, it shows whether the font is Unicode or another font type. For Unicode fonts, it still shows the Alt keystroke at the bottom-right for characters in the 255 range. Strangely enough, the Windows Character Map doesn't show *all* the Alt keystrokes within in the 255 range, even though they seem to all work. So as Janet said, in the Windings2 font, ALT-0080 gives you a checkmark. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] Inserting checkmark in a table cell (FM12)
Maybe this is clear to some people, but I thought I might clarify this since I just figured it out myself. Alt+ works for Unicode fonts as well, but only for the first 255 characters of the font. ANSI fonts are 8-bit fonts, which only have 255 characters. Unicode fonts have a very large number of characters, but you can still use Alt+ for the first 255 characters of the Unicode font. In the Windows Character Map, if you select the Advanced view checkbox, it shows whether the font is Unicode or another font type. For Unicode fonts, it still shows the Alt keystroke at the bottom-right for characters in the 255 range. Strangely enough, the Windows Character Map doesn't show *all* the Alt keystrokes within in the 255 range, even though they seem to all work. So as Janet said, in the Windings2 font, ALT-0080 gives you a checkmark. -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 058-763-7133 ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
[Framers] Inserting checkmark in a table cell (FM12)
To do this, I insert a text frame in the table cell where I want the check mark, and then click the insertion point within the text frame, change the typeface to Wingdings2, and the press ALT-0080. The text frame within the table cell also works well for inserting a table (as in an If/Then table) in a table cell, although you'll need to adjust the size of the cell manually. Janet Underwood ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] Inserting checkmark in a table cell (FM12)
I suspect that the problem is that the Alt key has special (altered? alternate?) functions when the insertion point is inside a table. I'd try inserting the checkmark character you want to use in a body paragraph and then cutting/copying it and pasting it into whatever cells in the table need it. In the long run, pasting the copy might be faster and easier than the 3 or 4 keystrokes needed to insert the character anew in each location. -FR From: Framers on behalf of Tom Beiswenger Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 9:02 AM To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. Subject: [Framers] Inserting checkmark in a table cell (FM12) How do I do this? Alt/052, Alt/0252 does not work, even if I have set the font for the cell to be Symbol (I don't have Dingbats). ___ ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
Re: [Framers] Inserting checkmark in a table cell (FM12)
I usually use the Windows Character Map to copy and paste symbols like that. I'd suggest using it to find the ASCII/ANSI code for a checkmark in your font. If it's not something you can enter using Alt+# (and in our corporate font, there isn't one, it's Unicode only), then copy it into a variable and use that instead. Or you can use the radical character (a.k.a. square root), which is Alt+251. On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 9:03 AM Tom Beiswenger < tom.beiswen...@emhartglass.com> wrote: > How do I do this? Alt/052, Alt/0252 does not work, even if I have set the > font for the cell to be Symbol (I don't have Dingbats). > ___ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com > Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com > Archives located at > http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > Subscribe and unsubscribe at > http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com > -- Lin Sims ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
[Framers] Inserting checkmark in a table cell (FM12)
How do I do this? Alt/052, Alt/0252 does not work, even if I have set the font for the cell to be Symbol (I don't have Dingbats). ___ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
