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Does your conversion setup handle all characters?

Does your current conversion setup handle all available FrameMaker characters correctly?

Check it using the test document FM_Character_Sets_Windows.mif and compare the conversion result with a print-out of that document.

Free download: FM_Character_Sets_Windows.mif (zipped: 50kB)

By the way: A file similar to this used to be part of the FrameMaker installation until version 5.5.6. Later versions contained that file in PDF format only.

Symbol Font Conversion

Earlier versions of WebWorks® Publisher featured a very rough conversion of the Symbol font: Every character was shown as a small (more or less good-looking) GIF image. Today you can expect the Symbol font on almost every computer, so a WebWorks® Publisher Character Style for compatible HTML would look like this:
<font name="Symbol">$DATA;</font>

Current versions of HTML do no longer favor the use of the font tag, they expect the formal specification in an external CSS file, like this:
.Symbol {font-family: Symbol;}
The corresponding Character Style would look like this:
<span class="Symbol">$DATA;</span>

With the introduction of WebWorks® Publisher Version 7, the default Character Style handles the font change automatically, so there is no need to have a separate Character Style.

Unfortunately this works only for ASCII characters, therefore the Greek letters. What about all those arrows and mathematical signs?

My offer

I created a Char Map for all characters of the Symbol font, which you can use with all versions of WebWorks® Publisher.

There is only a problem with the character "arrowup" with decimal code 173: Characters with that code are treated as a "soft hyphen" (discretionary hyphen) by almost all web browsers and are consequently not displayed. There are two options to circumvent this problem:

  • Using a replacement graphic for this character, like this: arrow up
  • Using the Unicode arrow \u2191 = &#8593; = ↑, which looks a little bit different than the other Symbol arrows: ¬ ® ¯.
    To make this work, the Symbol font must not be selected for this character. This could be achieved using the following entry in the Char Map:
    </span>&#8593;<span style="font-family: Symbol">

The second solution is implemented by default, but you can change it easily to the first option.

Available Add-on

Please see also my different offers regarding the Unicode-compatible conversion of fonts for the languages Czech (cz), Hungarian (hu), Polish (pl), Romanian (ro), Slovak (sk), Slovenian (sl), Belarusian (be), Bulgarian (bg), Russian (ru), Ukrainian (uk), Greek (el), Turkish (tr), Estonian (et), Lithuanian (lt), Latvian (lv):

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