Re: customize what symbols go into the Symbols button on the menu bar in FM 12?

[Klaus Daube]

On 23 Apr 2015 at 9:30, Studio Smalbro wrote:

> The nice Symbols button on the menu bar will per default have Bullet
> Character, Plus/minus, Double Dagger etc. Is it possible to customize the
> selection of symbols? Running FrameMaker 12, here.

Bjørn, assuming that You want to modify the menu and button in the Unstructured 
WysiWyg view ...

Open in a text-editor:
%appdata%\Adobe\FrameMaker\12\WorkSpaces\UnStructured\WYSIWYGView\menus\menus.cfg

Find these lines
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Add/replace such lines.

The names of the symbols for the  Add clause can be found in 
$HOME\fminit\configui\cmds.cfg ($HOME is the installation directory of FM)
Find for example CharPlusMinus:

  > ...
to dive into the file. Some of the characters are not in this area, for example:
  
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You may also have a look at http://www.daube.ch/docu/fmaker67.html#context

HTH
Klaus Daube

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Re: customize what symbols go into the Symbols button on the menu bar in FM 12?

[Dave Reynolds]

Hi Bjørn

I did this for a colleague a few years ago. I added the degrees, pilcrow 
and dot product characters (can't remember exactly why now). Be aware 
that I did this inFrameMaker 8, which we are still using, and I don't 
know if it will work for Frame 12.


This is how I did it:

1. Find the file menus.cfg. In Frame 8 it is here: C:\Program 
Files\Adobe\FrameMaker8\fminit\maker

2. Make a backup copy
3. Open into a text editor. The top of the file looks like this:

For documentation on this file, see "Customizing Frame Products" Online 
Manual

from the Help Contents.

MS Windows FrameMaker Menu Configurations


*** Document Window Main Menu ***

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   *** Pull Right Menus ***
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The section of text in red above controls what appears in the Symbols 
drop-down menu. The last three lines are the ones I added.


4. To add new entries to this menu, you need to use the correct syntax 
and code for each character. The codes for each character are found in 
this file: C:\Program Files\Adobe\FrameMaker8\fminit\configui\cmds.cfg


They are under the heading Diacritics, lines 1677 - 1841.

Copy the syntax from the other entries in this menu, but substitute the 
code for the character you need.


I do remember trying to add other characters to this menu, but without 
success. I'm sorry, but I can't remember which characters didn't work, 
and I didn't record this in my notes. You will just have to experiment.


I always close Frame before modifying any files, and restart it after 
modifying files, so that it picks up the new information.


Good luck and let me know how you get on!

Regards

Dave


On 23/04/2015 7:30 p.m., Studio Smalbro wrote:
The nice Symbols button on the menu bar will per default have Bullet 
Character, Plus/minus, Double Dagger etc. Is it possible to customize 
the selection of symbols? Running FrameMaker 12, here.


Best regards
Bjørn Smalbro
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customize what symbols go into the Symbols button on the menu bar in FM 12?

[Studio Smalbro]

The nice Symbols button on the menu bar will per default have Bullet 
Character, Plus/minus, Double Dagger etc. Is it possible to customize 
the selection of symbols? Running FrameMaker 12, here.


Best regards
Bjørn Smalbro
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