Hi, Nancy: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Nancy Allison <ma...@verizon.net> wrote: > This is a lengthy, nitty-gritty explanation of one oddity I'm encountering as > I rework a manual in Framemaker for conversion to a .chm file. So, if you > like nitty-gritty stuff, read on. If you find such discussions unbearably > tedious . . . you might want to read something else! > > Because I started with an existing manual, I couldn't create clean standards > that would make conversion easy. > > Example: the manual has introductory sentences like "Figure 3.12 shows a > waveform generated by an Open test." It is followed by an anchored frame > containing the figure, and then a caption with autonumbering that says > "Figure 3.12. Open Test Waveform" > > In the online help system, this topic can be reached from any direction; as a > result, chapter and figure numbers have no meaning. Therefore, I mask them > using conditional text. > > Translation standards say that it is best to create an entire, alternative > sentence, rather than creating conditional phrases. That's because the > grammatical structures of other languages may not accommodate the > alternatives that make sense in English. > > Therefore, I apply my PDF condition tag to "Figure 3.12 shows a waveform > generated by an Open test." and to the entire caption. > > I create this sentence: "The following figure shows a waveform generated by > an Open test." and apply my Online Help condition tag to it. > > The PDF has the original sentence, the figure, and the caption. > > The Online Help has the new introductory sentence, the figure, and no caption. > > OK, well and good. > > However, when I try to apply the same process to Table titles, I can rewrite > the introductory sentence just fine and apply conditional tags to the two > versions. > > But, the table title autonumber is built into the Table Title somehow. If I > select the Table Title and apply the "PDF" condition tag to it, and display > only the "Online Help" conditional text, I still get the autonumber in the > Table Title. The actual title text is gone, but the autonumber remains. It > seems to be hard-wired into the table itself.
The autonumber is a property of the Table Title paragraph format in your document. You can have more than one paragraph in a table header, and each paragraph can have a different format. So, you create and apply a non-autonumbered paragraph format to the complete sentence you use for your online/PDF table title, and manage its visibility with show/hide conditions. However, because a table title space is an isolated text flow (like a table cell), the last paragraph in it is considered to be the "end of flow," and is marked with the curly section symbol, not a paragraph return symbol. When you select and apply a condition to the whole end-of-flow paragraph, when you hide the condition, the curly symbol isn't hidden, so it leaves a blank line at the end of the table title or table cell. You can overcome this nuisance by including the Run-In property to either the autonumbered or non-autonumbered paragraph format, so that there's no extra blank line caused by hiding one or the other paragraph. HTH Regards, Peter __________________ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
