Re: Searching Frame 6.0 document for straight apostrophe

[Chuck Hastings <cwh2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello David Clarke,

At least in FrameMaker 5.5.6, copying the single and double quote 
characters FROM THE
DOCUMENT and then CLOSING AND REOPENING  the  'Find"  dialogue box CHANGES
these characters into the appropriate character combinations for 
searching.  I have in the past
made considerable use of this property in hunting down straight quotes 
within documents ported
from PCWrite  (a DOS-based word processor which did straight quotes)  
into FrameMaker. 

FrameMaker 5.5.6 is quite well-behaved in this regard.  Still, quotes 
from the keyboard do get
entered as straight quotes, at least on my system.  Forward and backward 
curly quotes have
to be copied from the text.

FrameMaker 7.0, which I also have, behaves differently.and not as 
appropriately for your
purposes.  Alas, I don't have any version of FrameMaker 6.x that I can 
test for you.

Are you running your FrameMaker 6.x with  'Smart Quotes'  enabled?

My advice is, whenever you find something that works, go with the flow 
and use it.   A complex
and mature piece of software like FrameMaker  (any version)  is best 
approached as if it were
a supernatural being;  when you stumble upon some incantation sequence 
that makes it yield your
desired results, just be sure that you use that sequence in precisely 
that same way every time!
Don't lose any sleep trying to make the software package's behavior seem 
rational to you.

Chuck Hastings        cwh2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Vintage Silicon Logic, Seattle


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David.Clarke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Can anyone advise how to search for a straight apostrophe in a (Windows) 
> FrameMaker 6.0 document? I have a document where straight apostrophes 
> occur (ANSI Character 039, HEX \x27) in the text, but I can't seem to 
> locate them from the Find dialogue. I have converted the file to MIF and 
> found the characters as hex - \x27, but when I type in the 039 character 
> or straight apostrophe from the keyboard into the Find dialogue box, it 
> finds only single right quotes (ANSI Character 092, \x146). 
>
> If I copy the character and paste it into the Find dialogue, it doesn't 
> find it. If I search for Text & formats on clipboard, it does. This is 
> wrecking my head - has anyone seen this before?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer,
> Dave
>
> David Clarke, Connect Global Solutions
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