Will this have to be my first-ever equation?

Question

One of the product managers has asked me to include tolerances in a spec. sheet. The way I've received the information, in a technical drawing, it looks like this:
what's the simplest/most maintainable way of reproducing this in a textual description? I could use superscript for the +0.2, and subscript for the 0, but have no immediate idea how I could then stack the two elements.
Thanks in advance for help and tips!
(btw – still soldiering on with FM10, if that makes any difference)

Answer 1

Niels,
No need for an equation. Just create two custom character styles - one for the superscript and on for the subscript. The superscript would use the FDY component and the subscript on would use the FDY and a negative FDX component to pull this value back in underneath the superscripted one. Unfortunately the FDY and FDX attributes are not directly accessible through the Character Designer UI.
You can either create a custom MIF file that has just these two character styles defined and import that file to get the formats, e.g.
(the numbers are just for show, you'll need to insert your own values. Use the MIF Reference for more details on this)
<MIFFile 10.00> # Generated by FrameMaker 10.0
<FontCatalog
<Font
  <FTag `tolerancePlus'>
  <FSize  4 pt>
  <FDY  -125.0%>
  <FLocked No>
> # end of Font
<Font
  <FTag `toleranceMinus'>
  <FSize  4 pt>
  <FDY  125.0%>
  <FDX  -200.0%>
  <FLocked No>
> # end of Font
> # end of FontCatalog
The other alternative is to try Scott Prentice's ExtraCharFormat utility that allows you to set these values in FM. See: Leximation: Leximation Tools: ExtraCharFormat