RE: Greek special character

[Kay Robart <Kay_Robart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Esc ' e in a standard character set, not Symbol font.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Bouchard [mailto:bouchar@rcnchicago.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:04 AM
To: 'Framers List'
Cc: framers@omsys.com
Subject: Greek special character


Two problems with a Greek word. Text is English, one word is Greek. I
don't speak or read Greek, my client does -- enough for the document at
least. The word is ablepsia, meaning not seeing or shortsightedness. I
typed "ablepsia", selected it, changed the font to Symbol, then added
apostrophes at the beginning and after "e"; this produces 'able'psia (in
Symbol of course). This works, except:  

1. Is there a keyboard sequence to produce an acute accent over epsilon?
My client prefers an acute accent over the "e" rather than after but I
could not find a special character sequence for lowercase epsilon with
an acute accent in FrameMaker (Esc + apostrophe + e did not produce the
desired results when changed to the Symbol font). Am I ablepsiatic? ;-)
that is, not seeing a special character sequence in FrameMaker that is
actually there. I did check the online character sets at the Abode site.
My client will accept an apostrophe after epsilon if necessary. 

2. Except for the missing acute accent over the epsilon, using Symbol
for the Greek text produces acceptable results in FrameMaker. The PDF is
another story. In the PDF, there is always an extra space between the
iota and the alpha (where there is no space entered in FM). So that in
the PDF it comes out as "'able'psi a" when it is "'able'psia" in FM. Is
there a way to keep iota and alpha together in the PDF? 

I'm producing the PDF using "Save Book As PDF" in FM 7.0p492, OS is XP
Pro.  

Ed Bouchard


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