Thanks, Mike. I didn't see anything about this online. You've been very helpful.
Pat From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Mike Wickham Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 3:49 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Special character: punctuation space First, if you haven't already, you need to turn on the unicode keypad. It's turned off in Windows by default. Use regedit to find the key "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Input Method". Right-click on it, choose New and then String to create a new string called "EnableHexNumpad" with a value of "1". (Don't type the quotes.) REBOOT. Don't forget to reboot! Now, you will be able to type unicode characters by holding down the left-alt key and simultaneously pressing the plus sign on the keypad, and then (while still holding down the left-alt key) enter the unicode character. Then release the left-alt key. (Note that the right-alt key does not work for this.) So, for your example you would hold down your Left-Alt key, and then (simultaneously) on the numeric pad: press + press 2 press 0 press 0 press 8 and then release the Alt key. Some Unicode characters have the hex letters a to f in them. Simply enter them from the main keyboard (while still holding down the Left-Alt key). PLEASE NOTE that the punctuation space that you want to enter will ONLY appear if the font you are using contains it as a defined character. (Most fonts do not.) Mike Wickham Now a new question: I thought there was a way to insert a space that's the width of punctuation, such as a period or comma (similar to Esc spacebar m for em space, Esc spacebar t for thin space, etc.). I found the Unicode for it is x2008. I've tried (and had other people) try this, holding down Alt and typing 2008 on the numeric keypad. We get a character that looks like a long equal sign with a vertical line through it. Does anyone know how to create a punctuation space in FrameMaker? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130701/41de5a0e/attachment.html>
