Rational SODA Tool

Dov, Steve, Steve, Joe, John, et. al - Thanks for the responses. I have what I need to help my colleague format an articulate, succinct discussion about why Framemaker should stay. Thanks again, TVB Tammy Van Boening Senior Technical Writer Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc. 303-328-4420

OT: Question about Rational SODA tool

All, I have a colleague who is being told that Framemaker is to go bye-bye very soon and that she will be needing to use Rational SODA to develop her documentation. I have googled this tool (as has she) and if they (as in her powers-that-be) want a developer who likes to write, then this would

OT: Question about Rational SODA tool

My bad - as a technical writer, I should have been much more clear - she is being told that Framemaker is going bye-bye at her organization because the powers that be insist Rational Soda will do the same thing - not Framemaker overall going bye-bye. Tammy Van Boening Senior Technical Writer

Format A Auto-numbering

Do you have another paragraph tag with autonumbering properties that also use the Series Label of "T" and that is being used BEFORE you insert the first table? Tammy Van Boening Senior Technical Writer Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc. 303-328-4420 tammy.vanboening at jeppesen.com

OT: Writing/editing style

Again, since there are so many veteran writers on this and who have learned through the years to maneuver their way through the editing process: I am writing to a major application, that when launched, results in three other applications being launched and running continuously in the

OT: Writing/editing style

Well Richard, as you stated: Unless you're writing for complete computer novices You hit the nail right on the head - in some cases we are, in other cases we aren't. The crux of the matter is that both audiences will have to use this same guide. Plus, they will so infrequently use these

OT: Writing/editing style

Thanks for all of the responses. They were all over the board, from keeping the wording to getting rid of it, to changing the whole layout of the intro. to each procedure. Ultimately, the sugesstion I liked best was this: 1. Open application by double-clicking the icon in the System Tray.

Going nutso' with a "phantom" cross-reference

Framemaker 7.1, all patches, Windows XP. I have a 12 file book that whenever generated gives the same single error message - unresolved cross-reference in a particular file in the book. When I click on the error message in the Book Error Log, however, I don't "jump" to the same location all of

Going nutso' with a "phantom" cross-reference

Thank you Fred. Your very articulate statement at the end about If that's not possible, your SQA rules will just have to be modified to accept a list of exceptions for cross-references that are reported as unresolved for a particular set of show/hide condition settings. Checking for

OT: Syntax for if/then statement

All, I am hoping the fellow writers on this list can provide some information for this request. Another writer here at Jeppesen and I have always used the following syntax for a conditional/causal statement: If , then . We have a new editor that just joined who is in

OT: Syntax for if/then statement

Donald, Christine, Jeremy, et. al. LOL! This list makes my day. Believe you me, I would like to be blunt as some of you were in your emails (the responses were hysterical!), but I can summarize the responses (in a politically correct format, mind you!) and go from there. Thanks for all of

Maximum length of GoToLink command?

For a variety of reasons, I have three instances of a Jump To hyperlink that must reference a file in a book, but the file is being pulled from a different directory than all other files in the book. Twice, I use this path: H:\EFB\Jepp EFB\UGs\AppManager\v1.1\Container Files\EFB_Use.fm:Set up

PDF Generation question

Terry, David, Lin, Fred, Harro, Darrel, Daniel, et. al. (too many names to mention) - Thanks for all of your replies and input and suggestions. Sorry Steve, squinting and looking sideways at the bookmarks didn't help~ Two issues - 1.) One was the flow in Chapter 7 - which was weird because I

numbering conundrum

Good question - I forgot to mention this. When I insert another one after the second 7.1 (the incorrect one), I get a 7.2. I have turned on all my conditions and have looked for any special/weird tag before the incorrect 7.1 tag and none are present. Also, I don't have any other tags that are

numbering conundrum

Nope, no overrides (thanks for prompting me to check this) and it's all in a single file. I have just back-tracked and cut out everything between the "good" Sec 7.3 and the "bad" Sec 7.1, then inserted a Sec ID tag after the good Sec 7.3 and voila, I get a Sec 7.4, so it's something in this

numbering conundrum

Harro, Steve, Lester, Darrel, Fred, Daniel, et. al, Thanks for all of the responses. The cut and paste method ultimately worked - a table seemed to be the offender, but for the life of me, I can't figure out why - I did not use any autonumbering in any of the table cells and I couldn't find

PDF Generation question

Framemaker 7.1, Windows XP, Adobe Acrobat 7.0. In my Framemaker source files, I have the following tags set to appear in my TOC: ChapTitle, SecTitle, Head1, Head2, Head3, and Head4. All tags appear as expected with the proper indentations, in the proper order, and with all links working in

PDF Generation question

LOL! I will try squinting. To answer several questions: 1.) Nope, SecTitle is not in a separate text flow. 2.) Yep, the TOC in my Framemaker source book generates just as expected with the SecTitles in the proper order under Chapter 7. 3.) Yep, I have tried regenerating my book after solving the

PDF Generation question

And one more thing - if I leave my SecTitle out of my bookmarks list, all of my bookmarks for Chapter 7 are still being placed under Chapter 6. Now I really give. TVB Tammy Van Boening Senior Technical Writer Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc. 303-328-4420 tammy.vanboening at jeppesen.com

OT: autonumbering in Word

This has saved me much hell in auto-numbering and bullets in Word - http://www.tech-tav.com/macro.htm. They are free macros from tech-tav (authorIT producers) that automate autonumbering, bullets, etc. in Word. They work like a charm and they are based on Framemaker principles. All my

numbering conundrum

I have created a tag named SecID to identify sections in my book chapters. It is set to autonumber according to the following format: S:Section <$chapnum>\=\sm. I have this tag set to start at the top of page and I auto-apply a Custom Master Page to the page that uses this Section ID. This

Table Continuation Variable?

All, If I have a table that spans more than one page, I naturally use this variable in the Table Title. Well, we have a new editor on board that came from a journalism background, not software documentation background, and her mantra is "nice, tight copy" . . .So, no it's not copy - it's

Table Continuation Variable?

Bingo - you're like the 10th response along these lines and nope, it's not in the style guide (it's under development), so it's with this type of "argument" that I will submit my request to put this in the style guide. Thanks Peter, et. al. TVB Tammy Van Boening Senior Technical Writer

Index Formatting Question

I have a three-column index with three entry levels. (I cannot use only two levels - I have gone over this with an indexing guru - sigh!) Anyway, The first level is not indented, the second level is only slightly indented beneath the first and the third level is slightly indented beneath the

Index Formatting Question

Rick and Sarah and Fred, Thanks! I made the hyphen a nonbreaking one (had to get the search term right though in Framemaker to figure out how - nonbreaking, not non-breaking! :-) And yep, Fred, as per comment, And you might also decrease the space between the entry text and the page number;

Framemaker and Visual Source Safe and Templates

I don't know if this is a VSS quirk, a Framemaker quirk, or a combo of the two, so I will do my best to explain the issue and see if some guidance/answers can be provided cuz this problem is driving me batty! We use VSS for version control for our Framemaker files. We use Framemaker 7.1p116 on

Weird, sudden problem distilling postscript files

Fred, Karen, et al. Thanks for all of the responses. sorry I didn't respond earlier, but just after I posted this message, my IT guy came down to see if he could troubleshoot - and at least I was able to reproduce the problem. Long story short - I will be humming along making PDFs no problem

Fw: Very OT, but this is freakin' incredible: Cool commercial

All, I am sure I am breaking list rules by posting this, but. . . this list has provided so much to me, I thought adding a bit of enjoyment to say thanks - and with as analytical and precise as a writer's mind is, I am sure that all of us will deeply appreciate the precision and accuracy that

Two questions

1.) The URL to the Frameusers archives/search feature - I had this saved as a favorite, but had a nuclear meltdown on my hard drive and an in the frustrating process of rebuilding my working environment. 2.) I know this has been asked (by me) and answered (generously by quite a few on the list

Paragraph tag with Frame below

Ok, Got both of my first two questions answered quickly, so let me continue on question #2. I am required by the FAA on any documentation that I produce to mark the blank page at the end of the chapter with the phrase "INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK". Right now, the writers simply manually hit

Paragraph tag with Frame below

Ok, if I had expanded on the very way that reference frames work on a page - oh well, thanks Mark - this works beautifully - (and thanks everyone else for responding as well . . . it's been a long couple of days reworking templates and my hard drive/working environment at the same time!). TVB

Weird, sudden problem distilling postscript files

Framemaker 7.1p116, Windows XP (with all patches), Adobe distiller 7.0.7, Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0.7 I have been using this setup to successfully create post-script files from Framemaker source files and then distilling the postscript files into pdfs for quite a while now. When I create

Fw: Weird, sudden problem distilling postscript files

Tammy Van Boening Senior Technical Writer Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc. 303-328-4420 tammy.vanboening at jeppesen.com - Forwarded by Tammy VanBoening/Jeppesen/TMC on 03/21/2006 03:43 PM - Tammy VanBoening/Jeppesen/TMC 03/21/2006 03:43 PM To Framers, frame_2_Acrobat List cc Subject Weird,

Esc m p for anchored frames?

Ok, I have tried searching the archives for this, but the searchable messages don't go back far enough in time. I distinctly remember a discussion about what the m and p represented in the Esc m p command for anchored frames. Fred Ridder also supplied a succinct description of why this

Fw: OT: Framemaker for UNIX User's Guide, Release 5

Tammy Van Boening Senior Technical Writer Aviation Courseware Development Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc. 303-328-4420 tammy.vanboening at jeppesen.com - Forwarded by Tammy VanBoening/Jeppesen/TMC on 01/25/2006 12:08 PM - Tammy VanBoening/Jeppesen/TMC 01/25/2006 12:07 PM To Framers, STC List

Automatically applying master pages

Windows XP, Framemaker 7.1. In an appendix, I have a tag named Head1. After Head1, I have some introductory text tagged as Body or ListBullet. After these tags, I insert a table identifed in the Table Designer as Symbology_Table. Because of the massive volume of information that is required

Automatically applying master pages

Thanks all! Got it working! Tammy Van Boening Senior Technical Writer Aviation Courseware Development Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc. 303-328-4420 tammy.vanboening at jeppesen.com

OT: Word to PDF

Since we are blessed to have so many acrobat gurus on this list: Windows XP Adobe Acrobat Professional 6.0 MS Word 2002 Inherited a Word doc with 143 pages, 2.99 MB that I need to convert to PDF. I have done a Save As and renamed to preserve the original and ensure that I know it is a Word

OT: Word to PDF

FWIW: The error message in it's entirety: %%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%% %%[ Error: rangecheck; OffendingCommand: pdfmark; ErrorInfo: View --nostringval-- ]%% Stack: /DOCVIEW [/FitH] /View /UseOutlines /PageMode -dict- %%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%% %%[

Graphic on a Reference Page

I have a graphic that I created on a Reference page called SectionLine. I selected this graphic as the Frame Below Pgf for a tag named SectionHeading. The paragraph tag itself is right-aligned on the page. I would therefore like this graphic to be right-aligned also. Right now, when I select

Graphic on a Reference Page

Yea, I thought so too, and I truly have tried this and no go. I have made the graphic frame right-aligned on the Reference page and then added the graphic and no matter what I do, it still appears as left-aligned on the body page beneath the paragraph tag. I am stumped. Tammy Van Boening

Graphic on a Reference Page

Thank you Lester!! Tammy Van Boening Senior Technical Writer Aviation Courseware Development Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc. 303-328-4420 tammy.vanboening at jeppesen.com "Lester C. Smalley" Sent by: framers-bounces+tammy.vanboening=jeppesen.com at lists.frameusers.com 12/29/2005 12:23 PM To

Graphic on a Reference Page

Yep, that would be necessary for a slow-witted one today anyway :- and thanks Jeremy, Martha, and Lester. I appreciate the quick responses and help. TVB Tammy Van Boening Senior Technical Writer Aviation Courseware Development Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc. 303-328-4420 tammy.vanboening at

Weird problem with PDF

Framemaker 7.1 on Windows XP, Adobe Acrobat Professional 6.0.0.5 In my Framemaker maker book, I have the following tags in my TOC that I want as bookmarks in my Adobe PDF: TableTitle (this is auto-numbered with "List of Tables") FigureTitle (this is auto-numbered with "List of Figures")

Weird problem with PDF

No, thanks for asking. I do not have GlossaryTitleTOC selected for the PDF. I have checked three times now - it's GlossaryTitle only. Tammy Van Boening Senior Technical Writer Aviation Courseware Development Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc. 303-328-4420 tammy.vanboening at jeppesen.com

Weird problem with PDF

What a lovely undocumented "feature" - but thanks Fred, you nailed the problem. TVB Tammy Van Boening Senior Technical Writer Aviation Courseware Development Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc. 303-328-4420 tammy.vanboening at jeppesen.com

OT:Trouble posting

Sorry all for the triplicate, but Ray, Lisa and their crew and my IT guys are trying to help me figure out why my account has gone belly up on its own, so again, I have been asked to try another post. Sorry for the bandwidth. TVB Tammy Van Boening Senior Technical Writer Aviation Courseware