Hi all,
We need to round-trip basic Greek symbols in inline text, such as a beta, represented by a lower case "b" in Symbol. This sounds pretty basic, but I can't get it to work and have read everything I can find about it. I am using Fm 9 and saving to xml.
It seems that Frame should inherently contain the rules to map this to an entity in XML, using either a code point 0x62, or its Unicode equivalent (U+03B2U ?), and that I should not need to create an entity in the DTD that represents it, nor explicitly add it to the rules.
On save to XML, however, the character is not represented properly, displaying just a "?", and of course, does not come back into Frame either. I can use the File | Utilities | Hex Input tool to enter the hex equivalent (which does save to XML as the entity "/b") -- but of course, the Frame document then displays that hex equivalent, rather than the actual Symbol font -- which won't work for PDFs, of course, and is also hard for the writer to work with.
I have read of several ways of mapping special characters like these -- one to create an element something like SymbolFont for which the EDD applies the correct font, others to add specific rules to the rules document.
Any help is very much appreciated.
-- Shelley Hoose
Rogue Wave Software