RE: Changing font in dialog box

["Combs, Richard" <richard.combs@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Clare Stewart wrote: 
 
> I am working in FrameMaker 5.5.6 for Unix. Can anyone tell me 
> if it is possible to change fonts __within__ a dialog box, 
> e.g., when setting up autonumbering in Paragraph Manager? I 
> tried creating a new Character Tag, but that applies to the 
> entire text in the dialog box, not just to a highlighted 
> segment. I want to be able to embed a dingbat in the middle 
> of standard font.

If I understand you correctly, you want to apply a char tag to only a
portion of an autonumber string. You can't do that. You might be able to
kludge up a workaround; I can think of two possibilities: 

-- This should work, but I don't have time to try it now: Use three
separate pgf formats. The first has an autonumber consisting only of
what comes before the dingbat, and it's a run-in head. The second's
autonumber is just the dingbat, and it's also a run-in head. The third's
autonumber is what comes after the dingbat, and it's a normal pgf. The
first two will never have any content (besides the autonumber). 

-- More work upfront, but simpler to implement in your docs: Using a
tool like Fontographer, create a new font that's a copy of the font you
want for the non-dingbat portion. Replace a glyph you don't need with
the glyph you need from the Dingbats font. Then create a char tag to
apply your new font. 

HTH!
Richard 


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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Voyant, a division of Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
richardDOTcombs AT voyanttechDOTcom
303-223-5111
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rgcombs AT qwestDOTnet
303-777-0436
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