RE: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems

2014-03-24 Thread Fei Min Lorente
without modifying my Windows, so thanks for the alternate ANSI code, Matt. Fei Min From: Matt Sullivan [mailto:sullivanma...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 6:07 PM To: Paul Wilbraham Cc: Fei Min Lorente; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Cannot insert the infinity symbol

Re: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character

2014-02-20 Thread Lin Sims
And if this isn't too late to the party: Alt+236 produces the infinity symbol in the Arial font. Ctrl+q+4 produces the infinity symbol in the Symbol font (looks a bit bolded compared to Arial). On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 3:59 AM, Davis, David david.da...@invensys.comwrote: Fei Min, there's a bit

Re: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems

2014-02-18 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 2014-Feb-14 3:23 AM, Reng, Dr. Winfried wrote: Hi, Just for your information: The Windows Character Map tool may show characters, even if they are not part of the font! Therefore it could always happen that you try to copy and paste a certain character although it is not part of your

RE: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character

2014-02-18 Thread Davis, David
Fei Min, there's a bit of confusion going on here! When you say... it is Unicode 221E, but perhaps all that information is obsolete now The Unicode standard is not obsolete, it is alive and well at http://www.unicode.org :) It is not something defined by Adobe FrameMaker or Microsoft

Re: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems

2014-02-18 Thread Ted Steinberg
Red Face = I found the utilities under file to the right of the column I repeatedly stared at instead of looking around. Red Face returning to Green as in Beginner's Green. Thanks for sending me back to the place were it always was! TED On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Matt Sullivan

Re: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems

2014-02-16 Thread Ted Steinberg
I am using FrameMaker 12, unstructured = I don't see utilities under the file menu. Where would I find this ability to do diacriticals et al, and TM, Registered, et al? My workaround is to use windows character map, from which I copy and paste the symbol I want, regardless of how it looks, into

RE: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems

2014-02-15 Thread Fred Ridder
Ed Noodland wrote: Framemaker does not appear to handle hexadecimal values using the ALT + numeric keypad values. It does handle decimal values but I can't determine what the different code points (character values) are mapped to. ALT+8734 results in a solid triangle for me. But as of

RE: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems

2014-02-15 Thread Fred Ridder
: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems To: docu...@hotmail.com CC: enodl...@gmail.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com I am using FrameMaker 12, unstructured = I don't see utilities under the file menu. Where would I find this ability to do diacriticals et al, and TM

RE: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems

2014-02-14 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Lise Bible Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 9:12 PM To: Fei Min Lorente Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems Fei Min, I'm on Frame 8, so I have no solutions

Re: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems

2014-02-14 Thread Robert Lauriston
Can you get the symbol in Word? This site might help: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/221e/index.htm On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Fei Min Lorente feimin.lore...@onsemi.com wrote: I'm working in FrameMaker 10 on Windows 7 and I cannot insert the infinity symbol. According to

RE: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems

2014-02-14 Thread Heiko Haida
, 2014 3:39 PM TO: Lise Bible; Fei Min Lorente CC: framers@lists.frameusers.com SUBJECT: RE: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems Windows Character Map should work, but not all systems have it installed. My company's IT department, for example, does

Re: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems

2014-02-14 Thread Ed Nodland
Framemaker does not appear to handle hexadecimal values using the ALT + numeric keypad values. It does handle decimal values but I can't determine what the different code points (character values) are mapped to. ALT+8734 results in a solid triangle for me. You can select File Utilities

Re: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems

2014-02-14 Thread Paul Wilbraham
Re. the infinity symbol, this is what I have tried: 1. When I copy the infinity symbol from the Character Map and paste it directly into a new portrait FM document (unstructured) - paragraph set to use Arial Unicode MS - the result is a question mark. I also use an FM10 DITA application to

Re: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems

2014-02-13 Thread Lise Bible
Fei Min, I'm on Frame 8, so I have no solutions for Frame 10, but have you tried using Windows Character Map (under ProgramsAccessoriesSystem Tools) as a workaround? I was able to find and copy the ∞ symbol from there. Not a terribly elegant solution, but an alternative to copy/paste from Word...

RE: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems

2014-02-13 Thread Fred Ridder
looking than the Character Palette (if that is possible). -Fred Ridder From: rentagoodb...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:11:54 -0600 Subject: Re: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems To: feimin.lore...@onsemi.com CC: framers@lists.frameusers.com Fei Min

RE: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems

2014-02-13 Thread Fei Min Lorente
in Trebuchet, which is the font we’re using. Fei Min From: Fred Ridder [mailto:docu...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 3:39 PM To: Lise Bible; Fei Min Lorente Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Cannot insert the infinity symbol and other special character problems Windows