Hi Lief - That's something I hadn't thought of trying. I'll have to see how insistent the client is on having a color on the footnote numbers. Thanks.
Pat On Aug 17, 2010, at 7:16 AM, Lief Erickson wrote: > Ah, that wasn?t clear to me that he wanted just the number in the > footnote. I thought he wanted the entire footnote and the number in > the text. > > Hmmm. Yeah, I don?t know how you?d color just the number in the > footnote itself, unless you want a hack way to do it. > > I could imagine that you could make the default Footnote paragraph > tag the color that you want, then use a Character tag (called Black > that is set to As-Is except for the color) to change the paragraph > color back to black. Be sure there is a space at the end of your > footnote that you do not select and include when applying your > Character tag though. > > Like I said, it?s a bit of a hack, but does get you a colored > number and black text in your footnotes. > > -Lief > > From: Roger Shuttleworth [mailto:rshuttleworth at avbasesystems.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 9:01 AM > To: Lief Erickson; Pat Christenson; Frame Users > Subject: RE: Footnote color > > Hello Lief > > The issue is, though, that you can't access the footnote number > alone, since it's not defined in the footnote paragraph format. Any > changes to the paragraph format are applied to the whole footnote, > not just the number. As far as I can see, there is no way to format > the number differently from the text. This appears to be so whether > you are using structured or unstructured documents. I'd be happy to > be proved wrong... > > Regards, > Roger > > Roger Shuttleworth > Technical Documentation > AV-BASE Systems Inc. > 1000 Air Ontario Drive, Suite 200 > London, Ontario > N5V 3S4 > Tel. 519 691-0919 ext. 330 > From: Lief Erickson [mailto:lief at networkinstruments.com] > To: Pat Christenson [mailto:pxenson at comcast.net], Frame Users > [mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com] > Sent: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:50:52 -0400 > Subject: RE: Footnote color > > Do you want the color applied universally to all footnotes through > a template or do you want each footnote to have its own color? > > To apply color to all footnotes, simply change the color of your > Footnote tag in your template. You could also apply color on a one- > off basis, but that creates paragraph overrides -- something most > FrameMaker users usually want to avoid. > > To apply color to the Footnote number, I think you'll need to > create a Character tag that is the color that you want and apply > that Character tag to the number. > > -Lief > > -----Original Message----- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers- > bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Pat Christenson > Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 11:32 PM > To: Frame Users > Subject: Footnote color > > Hi - > > Is there a way to automatically apply a color to a footnote number, > both in text and in the footnote? > > Thanks. > > Pat > > > ________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned. This e-mail (including any > attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you > are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an > intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or > distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If > you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender > immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message > and any attachments. ***Please note new email address: pxenson at gmail.com***