RE: Structured FM - TOC and IX

Hello all, Just want to thank everyone for their answers. It appears we were trying to do something that just isn't worth the effort -overkill. Ellen, KDS ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL

Re: FM 7.2 6.0

At 15:08 -0400 24/7/06, Art Campbell wrote: Hmmm. I'd been told that if you saved as .mif, the 7/later features would remain intact, but would just be ignored by the 6/earlier parser. So that if you re-opened the file in 7, you wouldn't lose anything. I have 6.0 and 7.0 (not 7.2) live here, so

RE: Framers Digest, Vol 9, Issue 24

Hi Ellen, I do generally agree with Matt's suggestion that generatable files usually need not be structured. However, if you do want to automate the structuring process, you can run book updates through my Structure Tools plugin, available as shareware at www.weststreetconsulting.com. It has a

Re: How do I get a single straight quote mark?

Martha, Assuming you're hitting the key beside the Enter key, with both the double and singel quotation marks on it and that's not working and also the apostrophe key, under the tilde isn't doing it Does holding down Alt and typing 027 on the number pad do anything useful? Art On 7/25/06,

Re: How do I get a single straight quote mark?

Hi Martha, Try holding down the Ctrl+' (the key to the left of the Enter key, with both the double and singel quotation marks on it) Helen Neubauer Martha

RE: How do I get a single straight quote mark?

Martha Neubauer wrote: I want to be able to type single straight quotation marks in my FrameMaker documents. - I've turned off the Smart Quotes option. snip Still, when I press Ctrl+', I get a curved quotation mark. I If Smart Quotes is off, shouldn't you just press the apostrophe key

ANN: Upcoming Training at Front Runner Training

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RE: Structured FM - TOC and IX

We handle this in a way similar to what Matt described. When building the book, we wrap our unstructured TOC and cover page in a TOC and Cover element, respectively. Inelegant, maybe, but it works for us! - Eileen Anderson Manager of Curriculum Editing Desktop Publishing *T***Mobile* Customer

DITA and FrameMaker

Has anyone seen, or looked at, the Mekon/XMetal DITA FrameMaker plug-in? There was an announcement on July 18th (http://dita.xml.org/node/1384). David Spreadbury Sr. Technical Writer Tellabs 18581 Dallas Parkway Dallas, TX 75287 Phone: 972.588.7121 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: DITA and FrameMaker

Hi David, Many of the members of our group recently attended an STC telephone seminar conducted by one of the guys who works with XMetaL. (I was, unfortunately, unable to attend.) I believe they talked about this tool as part of the seminar. You might check; I don't know for sure whether it was

Re: DITA and FrameMaker

Based on the descriptions and the sourceforge notes, it seems to me that the XMetal add-in is to simply use FrameMaker as a PDF output engine. The free Adobe plug-in that is due out shortly lets you use FrameMaker as your authoring environment. Eric L. Dunn Senior Technical Writer

Re: CHM with FM 7.2 and WebWorks

Re: CHM with FM 7.2 Rochelle has a very interesting question. I don't' have a solution, although I am very interested in hearing if this can be done. I've been using another help authoring tool, in addition to FrameMaker, but would like to use only FrameMaker and WebWorks. Mary Holder The Roving

Bookfile window view

How do you change the view in the book window to display the actual filename instead of the first paragraph of text in the document file? Thanks in advance. Roy Lewis Educational Services E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kronos.com/ Improving the performance of people and business

RE: Decompiling chm Help to Frame 7.2

Jon, WebWorks does make a tool called the Import Utility that will import a .chm file and convert the content to FM. You then need to apply styles and break the content into chapters (it all goes into one FM file). I've used it on some RoboHelp projects, and it worked quite well. All graphics

links in Frame converting to PDF

So I made a Hypertext link in my Frame file using Specify Named Destination and Jump to Named Destination. It works fine when I make the Frame file viewable. But when I print to PDF, I lose the link. What do I have to do to get it to work? Thanks, Gillian Flato Technical Writer (Software)

FrameMaker 7/Acro 7 - lost distiller job options

Hi all - I'm using FrameMaker 7.0 with Acrobat 7 on Windows. When I use Save as PDF, FrameMaker lists only the standard job options (Press Quality, Smallest Size, etc.), not any of the custom job options I've loaded in Distiller. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks. Pat

Re: FrameMaker 7/Acro 7 - lost distiller job options

Never mind, I figured it out. Pat On Jul 25, 2006, at 11:30 AM, Pat Christenson wrote: Hi all - I'm using FrameMaker 7.0 with Acrobat 7 on Windows. When I use Save as PDF, FrameMaker lists only the standard job options (Press Quality, Smallest Size, etc.), not any of the custom job

Re: links in Frame converting to PDF

Gillian, I use a standard Marker (Marker Type: Hypertext Marker Text: message URL http://full Internet address here). We print a FrameMaker book to the Adobe PDF printer selection. This link to the company web site and other email links work fine. Best, Denise L. Moss-Fritch

sorting translated tables

Hi everyone, We ran into an interesting issue. When sorting a table, we are noticing that the xrefs are broken after the sort. We're running into this a lot now that our translations are coming back from the localizers (given the tables need to be re-sorted based on the language rules). Has

RE: sorting translated tables

Hi Bill: Unfortunately, this is a FrameMaker quirk and I think it has been in the last 3 releases. All xref markers go poof when you sort the table. Unfortunately, the fix is to NOT do any sorting after you start placing xrefs. Russ or Scott, do you have any plug-ins that fix this? Kay

Re: Structured FM - TOC and IX

At 05:29 AM 7/24/2006, Ellen Lebelle wrote: And now, for the index, there are whitespaces that seem to interfere with the structure. The more pages there are references to, the more untagged text tags we get. Is there anyone out there who has dealt with this before? Or is thre a ready-made

Re: sorting translated tables

Nope .. I don't have such a plugin, and I'm not aware of one that would help with this (but I've added it to my list of plugins to develop). I just did some quick testing, and it appears (in FM 7.1) that this doesn't affect other marker types .. so in theory, you could rename your Cross-Ref

Re: sorting translated tables

Hi Bill, I have written a couple of FrameScript scripts over the years to solve this problem. If you are interested, send me a sample offlist and I will give you a quote for a script. Thanks. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com Hi everyone, We ran into an

Re: sorting translated tables

Hi all, If you're a FrameScripter, this would probably be a nice little script to rename all markers of a given type to another temporary marker type. I found a pretty old public quick-and-dirty script that does this for the current document. See below. Kind regards, Klaus 8

RE: Edward Tufte Fans: Sparklines

Many years ago I worked as a software engineer for HP, doing business graphics systems. That was when I first read the marvelous Mr. ET. On the one hand, his ideas are a revelation. On the other hand, once you learn his stuff, you'll be unable to sti still in the typical business meeting; you'll

Structured FM - TOC and IX

Hello all, Just want to thank everyone for their answers. It appears we were trying to do something that just isn't worth the effort -overkill. Ellen, KDS

FM 7.2 <> 6.0

At 15:08 -0400 24/7/06, Art Campbell wrote: >Hmmm. I'd been told that if you saved as .mif, the 7/later features would >remain intact, but would just be ignored by the 6/earlier parser. So that if >you re-opened the file in 7, you wouldn't lose anything. I have 6.0 and 7.0 (not 7.2) live here,

AW: FM 7.2 <> 6.0

Hi, FM 7.1/2 (and I think also 7.0) has 12 Running H/F variables compared to 2 in FM 6. I think these excess system variables become user variables in FM 6. I don't know what will happen with them when you return to 7.2. Best regards Winfried > -Urspr?ngliche Nachricht- > Von:

AW: FM 7.2 <> 6.0

> At 15:08 -0400 24/7/06, Art Campbell wrote: > > >Hmmm. I'd been told that if you saved as .mif, the 7/later > features would > >remain intact, but would just be ignored by the 6/earlier > parser. So that if you re-opened the file in 7, you wouldn't > lose anything. At 13:10 +0200 25/7/06, Reng,

How do I get a single straight quote mark?

Hi, FrameMaker 7.2p158 English Windows XP German I want to be able to type single straight quotation marks in my FrameMaker documents. - I've turned off the Smart Quotes option. - I've edited the maker.ini file so it reads ; German-style quotes with base quotes:

Framers Digest, Vol 9, Issue 24

Hi Ellen, I do generally agree with Matt's suggestion that generatable files usually need not be structured. However, if you do want to automate the structuring process, you can run book updates through my Structure Tools plugin, available as shareware at www.weststreetconsulting.com. It has a

How do I get a single straight quote mark?

Martha, Assuming you're hitting the key beside the Enter key, with both the double and singel quotation marks on it and that's not working and also the apostrophe key, under the tilde isn't doing it Does holding down Alt and typing 027 on the number pad do anything useful? Art On 7/25/06,

How do I get a single straight quote mark?

Hi Martha, Try holding down the Ctrl+' (the key to the left of the Enter key, with both the double and singel quotation marks on it) Helen "Neubauer Martha"

How do I get a single straight quote mark?

Martha Neubauer wrote: > I want to be able to type single straight quotation marks in > my FrameMaker documents. > > - I've turned off the Smart Quotes option. > Still, when I press Ctrl+', I get a curved quotation mark. I If Smart Quotes is off, shouldn't you just press the apostrophe key

Decompiling chm Help to Frame 7.2

Hi all, A predecessor created a chm file from a FrameMaker document via WebWorks Publisher. Due to powers beyond my control, we no longer have the source files and I have been given the task to put the chm file back into FrameMaker. I've been through the WWP online help to no avail. Is there a

ANN: Upcoming Training at Front Runner Training

Hello to all, Do you have the "write" stuff to complete your projects successfully and with ease? Front Runner Training invites you to explore our upcoming courses for August and September, at our classroom facility in Toronto, Canada. For those of you, whose schedules don't fit into our

Structured FM - TOC and IX

We handle this in a way similar to what Matt described. When building the book, we wrap our unstructured TOC and cover page in a "TOC" and "Cover" element, respectively. Inelegant, maybe, but it works for us! - Eileen Anderson Manager of Curriculum Editing & Desktop Publishing *T***Mobile*

DITA and FrameMaker

Has anyone seen, or looked at, the Mekon/XMetal DITA FrameMaker plug-in? There was an announcement on July 18th (http://dita.xml.org/node/1384). David Spreadbury Sr. Technical Writer Tellabs 18581 Dallas Parkway Dallas, TX 75287 Phone: 972.588.7121 david.spreadbury at tellabs.com

DITA and FrameMaker

Hi David, Many of the members of our group recently attended an STC telephone seminar conducted by one of the guys who works with XMetaL. (I was, unfortunately, unable to attend.) I believe they talked about this tool as part of the seminar. You might check; I don't know for sure whether it was

DITA and FrameMaker

Based on the descriptions and the sourceforge notes, it seems to me that the XMetal add-in is to simply use FrameMaker as a PDF output engine. The free Adobe plug-in that is due out shortly lets you use FrameMaker as your authoring environment. Eric L. Dunn Senior Technical Writer

CHM with FM 7.2 and WebWorks

Re: CHM with FM 7.2 Rochelle has a very interesting question. I don't' have a solution, although I am very interested in hearing if this can be done. I've been using another help authoring tool, in addition to FrameMaker, but would like to use only FrameMaker and WebWorks. Mary Holder The Roving

Bookfile window view

How do you change the view in the book window to display the actual filename instead of the first paragraph of text in the document file? Thanks in advance. Roy Lewis Educational Services E-mail: rlewis at kronos.com Improving the performance of people and business

Bookfile window view

Hi Roy, You can click on the little icon on the book window that has a single horizontal line one it. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com How do you change the view in the book window to display the actual filename instead of the first paragraph of text in the

Decompiling chm Help to Frame 7.2

Jon, WebWorks does make a tool called the Import Utility that will import a .chm file and convert the content to FM. You then need to apply styles and break the content into chapters (it all goes into one FM file). I've used it on some RoboHelp projects, and it worked quite well. All graphics

links in Frame converting to PDF

So I made a Hypertext link in my Frame file using Specify Named Destination and Jump to Named Destination. It works fine when I make the Frame file viewable. But when I print to PDF, I lose the link. What do I have to do to get it to work? Thanks, Gillian Flato Technical Writer (Software)

FrameMaker 7/Acro 7 - lost distiller job options

Hi all - I'm using FrameMaker 7.0 with Acrobat 7 on Windows. When I use Save as PDF, FrameMaker lists only the standard job options (Press Quality, Smallest Size, etc.), not any of the custom job options I've loaded in Distiller. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks. Pat

FrameMaker 7/Acro 7 - lost distiller job options

Never mind, I figured it out. Pat On Jul 25, 2006, at 11:30 AM, Pat Christenson wrote: > Hi all - > > I'm using FrameMaker 7.0 with Acrobat 7 on Windows. When I use Save > as PDF, FrameMaker lists only the standard job options (Press Quality, > Smallest Size, etc.), not any of the custom

links in Frame converting to PDF

Gillian, I use a standard Marker (Marker Type: Hypertext Marker Text: message URL http://). We "print" a FrameMaker book to the Adobe PDF "printer" selection. This link to the company web site and other email links work fine. Best, Denise L. Moss-Fritch Lead Technical Writer

sorting translated tables

Hi everyone, We ran into an interesting issue. When sorting a table, we are noticing that the xrefs are broken after the sort. We're running into this a lot now that our translations are coming back from the localizers (given the tables need to be re-sorted based on the language rules). Has

sorting translated tables

Hi Bill: Unfortunately, this is a FrameMaker quirk and I think it has been in the last 3 releases. All xref markers go "poof" when you sort the table. Unfortunately, the "fix" is to NOT do any sorting after you start placing xrefs. Russ or Scott, do you have any plug-ins that fix this? Kay

sorting translated tables

Thanks Kay. And, as I forgot to mention it before, we're using v.7.0 (in both structured and unstructured modes). On 7/25/06, Sales at Bright Path wrote: > Hi Bill: > > Unfortunately, this is a FrameMaker quirk and I think it has been in the > last 3 releases. All xref markers go "poof" when

Structured FM - TOC and IX

At 05:29 AM 7/24/2006, Ellen Lebelle wrote: >And now, for the index, there are whitespaces that seem to interfere with >the structure. The more pages there are references to, the more "untagged >text" tags we get. Is there anyone out there who has dealt with this before? >Or is thre a ready-made

sorting translated tables

Nope .. I don't have such a plugin, and I'm not aware of one that would help with this (but I've added it to my list of plugins to develop). I just did some quick testing, and it appears (in FM 7.1) that this doesn't affect other marker types .. so in theory, you could rename your Cross-Ref

sorting translated tables

Hi Bill, I have written a couple of FrameScript scripts over the years to solve this problem. If you are interested, send me a sample offlist and I will give you a quote for a script. Thanks. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com > Hi everyone, > > We ran into an

Edward Tufte Fans: Sparklines

Many years ago I worked as a software engineer for HP, doing business graphics systems. That was when I first read the marvelous Mr. ET. On the one hand, his ideas are a revelation. On the other hand, once you learn his stuff, you'll be unable to sti still in the typical business meeting; you'll