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Re: consolas font's hyphen - causing odd copy/paste result from PDF (from FrameMaker)
Subject:Re: consolas font's hyphen - causing odd copy/paste result from PDF (from FrameMaker) From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:techwr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:24:17 -0800
No font. These are code strings being pasted into a text editor.
If you were just reading the code, you probably wouldn't notice the
difference between an ASCII 45 hyphen-minus and a Unicode 2010 hyphen.
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Sharon Burton <sharon -at- anthrobytes -dot- com> wrote:
> When the text is pasted into what ever you're pasting it into, what font is
> used?
>
> For example, it's consolas in the PDF. You paste it into Word and it's Times
> Roman?
>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Monique Semp
>> <monique -dot- semp -at- earthlink -dot- net> wrote:
>>> Has anyone run across this issue: in PDFs created from my FrameMaker
> files, the hyphen character in my code lines, which use the consolas font,
> look just fine, but when they're copied-and-pasted into a text editor (which
> is what the developers will do), the hyphens end up as some sort of special
> character.
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