Need some FM tips
You can also use Esc v,P. There's a document called Customizing_Frame_Products.pdf that is installed with FM that describes how to add your own shortcuts. I added Esc b,b,b for following a cross-reference back by adding to: C:\Program Files\Adobe\FrameMaker7.2\fminit\configui\cmds.cfg You add the new sequence directly after the old one (with a space in between), by searching for the old key sequence. In this case, it is . This way both the new and old shortcuts work. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson rebecca officer wrote: >> b. After following a cross reference (Alt+Ctrl+Click), go back to the >> > cross reference? > > If you get ToolbarPlus from www.microtype.com/resources.html it has a > tool button for this. > > Cheers, Rebecca > > NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential > information intended only for the use of the addressee > named above. If you are not the intended recipient of > this message you are hereby notified that you must not > disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. > If you have received this message in error please > notify Allied Telesis Labs Ltd immediately. > Any views expressed in this message are those of the > individual sender, except where the sender has the > authority to issue and specifically states them to > be the views of Allied Telesis Labs. > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as sbw at actcom.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sbw%40actcom.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > >
Re: Need some FM tips
Hi David, Esc vP (uppercase p) is the shortcut for going back to the source of a cross-reference. By the way, if you don't like FM's shortcut keys, you can change them. See Customizing_Frame_Products.pdf located in: C:\Program Files\Adobe\FrameMaker7.0\OnlineManuals Regards, Shmuel Wolfson David Shaked (Wernick) wrote: This is great - you have saved me a lot of time. Thanks for your help. David Shaked (Wernick) AlmondWeb Ltd. http://www.almondweb.com Technical Documentation * Web Development * Word and WebWorks Consultants -Original Message- From: Shmuel Wolfson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 16:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Framers Subject: Re: Need some FM tips See answers below. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson David Shaked (Wernick) wrote: Can I ask the list members for some tips on various FM techniques? I am using FM 7.2. Most of these questions (except #6) are about techniques that are easy to use in Word, and I haven't yet found an FM equivalent. 1. Navigation techniques. Are there quick ways, such as shortcut keys, to do the following: a. Display the book window? *I always make sure the book is the first thing I open in FM. This way it's easy to go to the book via the Window menu, or ALT+W+1.* b. After following a cross reference (Alt+Ctrl+Click), go back to the cross reference? c. Go back to the last place that I edited? d. Go to a specified page number in a book, if it is not within the currently displayed *.fm file? 2. Is there a way to display the same document in two windows or in a split window? 3. What is the best way to create a TOC or index conforming to a predefined template? The method that I have used so far is the following: a. Copy the TOC and index templates to the document directory. b. Rename the files according to the convention booknameTOC.fm and booknameIX.fm. c. Open the *.book file and choose Add TOC or Add Standard Index. FM places the TOC and index in the above files and adds them to the book. Is that the right way? *The standard way would be to insert a TOC, open the template TOC and import the relevant formats to the new TOC. But I your way better.* 4. On one computer, I accidentally moved my toolbar (the Quick Access Bar) to a floating position within the document window. How can I can move it back to the docked position at the top of the FM window? It refuses to dock. 5. If I shorten a document, I need to manually delete the blank pages at the end of the document. Shouldn't the pages disappear automatically? *Only if you select Delete Empty Pages in the pagination settings. Then they disappear when you update the book. But this does not help when you always want even pages in the file.* 6. Can I create a book of books? My idea is to create a super-book that I can use for global operations such as find/replace or import-formats throughout a documentation set. However, I must be careful not to inadvertently change the page and chapter numbering or corrupt any XRefs while doing this. *I assume that this is possible since there a a volume numbering option under numbering. See FM help for Volume.* Thanks in advance. David Shaked (Wernick) AlmondWeb Ltd. http://www.almondweb.com Technical Documentation * Web Development * Word and WebWorks Consultants ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sbw%40actcom.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Need some FM tips
At 12:46 -0400 19/6/07, John Sgammato wrote: I keep a folder in Outlook called Tips Tricks, and when something useful comes across a list like this, I just drag it in there. If the email does not have a helpful title, then I forward it to myself and rename it before saving it. Seconded. Mine is called 'Framers wisdom' ;-) It goes back to 2003. -- Steve ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Need some FM tips
You guys are great! I have been overwhelmed with online and offline replies. Thanks to everyone for taking the time to help. David Shaked (Wernick) AlmondWeb Ltd. http://www.almondweb.com Technical Documentation * Web Development * Word and WebWorks Consultants ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Need some FM tips
> b. After following a cross reference (Alt+Ctrl+Click), go back to the cross reference? If you get ToolbarPlus from www.microtype.com/resources.html it has a tool button for this. Cheers, Rebecca NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please notify Allied Telesis Labs Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender has the authority to issue and specifically states them to be the views of Allied Telesis Labs.
Need some FM tips
Hi David, Esc vP (uppercase p) is the shortcut for going back to the source of a cross-reference. By the way, if you don't like FM's shortcut keys, you can change them. See "Customizing_Frame_Products.pdf" located in: C:\Program Files\Adobe\FrameMaker7.0\OnlineManuals Regards, Shmuel Wolfson > > > David Shaked (Wernick) wrote: >> This is great - you have saved me a lot of time. Thanks for your help. >> >> David Shaked (Wernick) >> >> AlmondWeb Ltd. >> http://www.almondweb.com >> Technical Documentation * Web Development * Word and WebWorks Consultants >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Shmuel Wolfson [mailto:sbw at actcom.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 16:32 >> To: david at almondweb.com; Framers >> Subject: Re: Need some FM tips >> >> See answers below. >> >> Regards, >> Shmuel Wolfson >> >> >> David Shaked (Wernick) wrote: >> >>> Can I ask the list members for some tips on various FM techniques? I am >>> using FM 7.2. Most of these questions (except #6) are about techniques >>> >> that >> >>> are easy to use in Word, and I haven't yet found an FM equivalent. >>> >>> >>> 1. Navigation techniques. Are there quick ways, such as shortcut keys, to >>> >> do >> >>> the following: >>> >>>a. Display the book window? >>> >> *I always make sure the book is the first thing I open in FM. This way >> it's easy to go to the book via the Window menu, or ALT+W+1.* >> >>>b. After following a cross reference (Alt+Ctrl+Click), go back to the >>> cross reference? >>>c. Go back to the last place that I edited? >>>d. Go to a specified page number in a book, if it is not within the >>> currently displayed *.fm file? >>> >>> >>> 2. Is there a way to display the same document in two windows or in a >>> >> split >> >>> window? >>> >>> >>> 3. What is the best way to create a TOC or index conforming to a >>> >> predefined >> >>> template? The method that I have used so far is the following: >>> >>>a. Copy the TOC and index templates to the document directory. >>>b. Rename the files according to the convention TOC.fm and >>> IX.fm. >>>c. Open the *.book file and choose Add > TOC or Add > Standard Index. >>> >> FM >> >>> places the TOC and index in the above files and adds them to the book. >>> >>>Is that the right way? >>> >>> >> *The standard way would be to insert a TOC, open the template TOC and >> import the relevant formats to the new TOC. But I your way better.* >> >>> 4. On one computer, I accidentally moved my toolbar (the Quick Access Bar) >>> to a floating position within the document window. How can I can move it >>> back to the docked position at the top of the FM window? It refuses to >>> >> dock. >> >>> 5. If I shorten a document, I need to manually delete the blank pages at >>> >> the >> >>> end of the document. Shouldn't the pages disappear automatically? >>> >>> >> *Only if you select Delete Empty Pages in the pagination settings. Then >> they disappear when you update the book. But this does not help when you >> always want even pages in the file.* >> >>> 6. Can I create a book of books? My idea is to create a "super-book" that >>> >> I >> >>> can use for global operations such as find/replace or import-formats >>> throughout a documentation set. However, I must be careful not to >>> inadvertently change the page and chapter numbering or corrupt any XRefs >>> while doing this. >>> >>> >> *I assume that this is possible since there a a volume numbering option >> under numbering. See FM help for Volume.* >> >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >>> David Shaked (Wernick) >>> >>> AlmondWeb Ltd. >>> http://www.almondweb.com >>> Technical Documentation * Web Development * Word and WebWorks Consultants >>> >>> >>> ___ >>> >>> >>> You are currently subscribed to Framers as sbw at actcom.com. >>> >>> Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. >>> >>> To unsubscribe send a blank email to >>> framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com >>> or visit >>> >> http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sbw%40actcom.com >> >>> Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit >>> http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >>
Need some FM tips
At 12:46 -0400 19/6/07, John Sgammato wrote: >I keep a folder in Outlook called Tips & Tricks, and when something >useful comes across a list like this, I just drag it in there. If the >email does not have a helpful title, then I forward it to myself and >rename it before saving it. Seconded. Mine is called 'Framers wisdom' ;-) It goes back to 2003. -- Steve
Need some FM tips
You guys are great! I have been overwhelmed with online and offline replies. Thanks to everyone for taking the time to help. David Shaked (Wernick) AlmondWeb Ltd. http://www.almondweb.com Technical Documentation * Web Development * Word and WebWorks Consultants
Re: Need some FM tips
See answers below. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson David Shaked (Wernick) wrote: Can I ask the list members for some tips on various FM techniques? I am using FM 7.2. Most of these questions (except #6) are about techniques that are easy to use in Word, and I haven't yet found an FM equivalent. 1. Navigation techniques. Are there quick ways, such as shortcut keys, to do the following: a. Display the book window? *I always make sure the book is the first thing I open in FM. This way it's easy to go to the book via the Window menu, or ALT+W+1.* b. After following a cross reference (Alt+Ctrl+Click), go back to the cross reference? c. Go back to the last place that I edited? d. Go to a specified page number in a book, if it is not within the currently displayed *.fm file? 2. Is there a way to display the same document in two windows or in a split window? 3. What is the best way to create a TOC or index conforming to a predefined template? The method that I have used so far is the following: a. Copy the TOC and index templates to the document directory. b. Rename the files according to the convention booknameTOC.fm and booknameIX.fm. c. Open the *.book file and choose Add TOC or Add Standard Index. FM places the TOC and index in the above files and adds them to the book. Is that the right way? *The standard way would be to insert a TOC, open the template TOC and import the relevant formats to the new TOC. But I your way better.* 4. On one computer, I accidentally moved my toolbar (the Quick Access Bar) to a floating position within the document window. How can I can move it back to the docked position at the top of the FM window? It refuses to dock. 5. If I shorten a document, I need to manually delete the blank pages at the end of the document. Shouldn't the pages disappear automatically? *Only if you select Delete Empty Pages in the pagination settings. Then they disappear when you update the book. But this does not help when you always want even pages in the file.* 6. Can I create a book of books? My idea is to create a super-book that I can use for global operations such as find/replace or import-formats throughout a documentation set. However, I must be careful not to inadvertently change the page and chapter numbering or corrupt any XRefs while doing this. *I assume that this is possible since there a a volume numbering option under numbering. See FM help for Volume.* Thanks in advance. David Shaked (Wernick) AlmondWeb Ltd. http://www.almondweb.com Technical Documentation * Web Development * Word and WebWorks Consultants ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sbw%40actcom.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Need some FM tips
David Shaked (Wernick) wrote: Can I ask the list members for some tips on various FM techniques? I am using FM 7.2. Most of these questions (except #6) are about techniques that are easy to use in Word, and I haven't yet found an FM equivalent. 1. Navigation techniques. Are there quick ways, such as shortcut keys, to do the following: a. Display the book window? b. After following a cross reference (Alt+Ctrl+Click), go back to the cross reference? c. Go back to the last place that I edited? d. Go to a specified page number in a book, if it is not within the currently displayed *.fm file? Ctrl+Tab cycles through the open windows within FM. Use Ctrl+g to go to a page or to the insertion point. For lots of menu and toolbar enhancements, including more navigation tools, go to www.microtype.com/resources.html and get ToolbarPlus. While you're at that site, click Links and check out some of the FM resources and tools listed. Don't forget to bookmark that page! 2. Is there a way to display the same document in two windows or in a split window? Yes, if you get Enhance (www.sandybrook.com/enhance/), which has many other compelling features. 3. What is the best way to create a TOC or index conforming to a predefined template? The method that I have used so far is the following: a. Copy the TOC and index templates to the document directory. b. Rename the files according to the convention booknameTOC.fm and booknameIX.fm. c. Open the *.book file and choose Add TOC or Add Standard Index. FM places the TOC and index in the above files and adds them to the book. Is that the right way? It's a good way, probably better than most. There are generally several ways to do anything in FM, and the right way often depends on your personal preferences and situation. 4. On one computer, I accidentally moved my toolbar (the Quick Access Bar) to a floating position within the document window. How can I can move it back to the docked position at the top of the FM window? It refuses to dock. Never seen that. Try this: Open maker.ini and find the ShowQuickAccessBar setting. Set it to this: ShowQuickAccessBar=On H 5. If I shorten a document, I need to manually delete the blank pages at the end of the document. Shouldn't the pages disappear automatically? Select Format Page Layout Pagination and look at the 1st Page Side (if Double Sided) and Before Saving Printing settings. Within a book, these settings interact. If your doc is double-sided and you want the following chapter to start on a right-hand (odd) page, this chapter will have to have either zero or one empty page, depending on whether the content ends on a left or right page. If you don't care about where the following chapter starts (or it's a single sided doc) you can select Delete Empty Pages. FM deletes unnecessary empty pages when you save or print. Unless you're applying custom master pages. FM won't delete pages using custom master pages, only default Right/Left pages. 6. Can I create a book of books? My idea is to create a super-book that I can use for global operations such as find/replace or import-formats throughout a documentation set. However, I must be careful not to inadvertently change the page and chapter numbering or corrupt any XRefs while doing this. No, but the same files can be put into any number of books. So you can create a master book that contains all the chapter files in your suite of 10 manuals, and use the master book just for global operations like updating variables, generating an index of imported graphics, etc. Thanks in advance. HTH! Richard -- Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 -- rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 -- ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Need some FM tips
4. On one computer, I accidentally moved my toolbar (the Quick Access Bar) to a floating position within the document window. How can I can move it back to the docked position at the top of the FM window? It refuses to dock. There's a button on the main toolbar - the one that contains the basic text formatting options. The button icon looks like a horizontal bar with a curved arrow to a vertical bar. For me it's on the very left of the toolbar next to the help *?* icon (if your toolbar is floating it's at the top right I think). Click this button to dock the toolbar again. Regards, Jo ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Need some FM tips
David Shaked (Wernick) wrote: Can I ask the list members for some tips on various FM techniques? I am using FM 7.2. Most of these questions (except #6) are about techniques that are easy to use in Word, and I haven't yet found an FM equivalent. 1. Navigation techniques. Are there quick ways, such as shortcut keys, to do the following: a. Display the book window? Always open your book file first before opening its contained files. Then Alt+w 1 (digit one) opens the book window. b. After following a cross reference (Alt+Ctrl+Click), go back to the cross reference? I don't think that's possible. c. Go back to the last place that I edited? If you haven't repositioned your insertion point, just press the left then right arrow keys. d. Go to a specified page number in a book, if it is not within the currently displayed *.fm file? I don't think that's possible. The navigation commands except for hyperlinks all apply only to the displayed file. But you can switch to the book window and see what page numbers apply to which files (select a file, check the status bar) and switch to that file. Then type Ctrl+g or double-click the page number on the status bar to open the Go To dialog box. 2. Is there a way to display the same document in two windows or in a split window? You can launch a second instance of FM and open the same file in it. I haven't played with that myself, but I think I'd make the second instance View Only so that I wouldn't have problems saving different versions over each other. See the Help topic, Working in view-only documents and books. 3. What is the best way to create a TOC or index conforming to a predefined template? The method that I have used so far is the following: a. Copy the TOC and index templates to the document directory. b. Rename the files according to the convention booknameTOC.fm and booknameIX.fm. c. Open the *.book file and choose Add TOC or Add Standard Index. FM places the TOC and index in the above files and adds them to the book. Is that the right way? That's a good way. Or you can Add Table of Contents and then import formats from the template TOC. See the Help topics, Generating TOCs and other lists, and Formatting lists and indexes using templates. 4. On one computer, I accidentally moved my toolbar (the Quick Access Bar) to a floating position within the document window. How can I can move it back to the docked position at the top of the FM window? It refuses to dock. One of the buttons at the top of the floating bar looks like a carpenter's square with a little curved arrow. Click it. 5. If I shorten a document, I need to manually delete the blank pages at the end of the document. Shouldn't the pages disappear automatically? In Format Page Layout Pagination, select either Delete Empty Pages or Make Page Count Even. See the Help topic, Changing the pagination, and the topics it links to; there are interactions within books, and situations where pages aren't actually empty. 6. Can I create a book of books? My idea is to create a super-book that I can use for global operations such as find/replace or import-formats throughout a documentation set. However, I must be careful not to inadvertently change the page and chapter numbering or corrupt any XRefs while doing this. Others have answered this one for you. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com Developers explain How the Product Works. Technical writers explain How to Work the Product. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Need some FM tips
Hello David, 1.b. After following a cross reference (Alt+Ctrl+Click), go back to the cross reference? - Jumps within the same document: Esc vP (internal FM command GotoPreviousView) - Jumps to other documents: Ctrl+Tab If you have FrameScript (http://www.framescript.com), there are free scripts available for the following: 1.a. shortcut keys, to [...] display the book window? Ctrl+Shift+B with the FrameScript TileBookWindows.fsl: http://www.itl.eu/108.0.html?L=1#c1859 1.d. Go to a specified page number in a book Ctrl+Shift+G with the FrameScript GotoPage.fsl: http://www.itl.eu/108.0.html?L=1#c1981 Kind regards, Klaus Müller, itl AG ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Need some FM tips
David Shaked (Wernick) wrote: snip 6. Can I create a book of books? My idea is to create a super-book that I can use for global operations such as find/replace or import-formats throughout a documentation set. However, I must be careful not to inadvertently change the page and chapter numbering or corrupt any XRefs while doing this. We offer a free plugin called ComboBook that builds a book from multiple books .. http://www.leximation.com/tools/info/combobook.php ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Need some FM tips
FWIW - I keep a folder in Outlook called Tips Tricks, and when something useful comes across a list like this, I just drag it in there. If the email does not have a helpful title, then I forward it to myself and rename it before saving it. john ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Need some FM tips
b. After following a cross reference (Alt+Ctrl+Click), go back to the cross reference? If you get ToolbarPlus from www.microtype.com/resources.html it has a tool button for this. Cheers, Rebecca NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please notify Allied Telesis Labs Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender has the authority to issue and specifically states them to be the views of Allied Telesis Labs. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Need some FM tips
Can I ask the list members for some tips on various FM techniques? I am using FM 7.2. Most of these questions (except #6) are about techniques that are easy to use in Word, and I haven't yet found an FM equivalent. 1. Navigation techniques. Are there quick ways, such as shortcut keys, to do the following: a. Display the book window? b. After following a cross reference (Alt+Ctrl+Click), go back to the cross reference? c. Go back to the last place that I edited? d. Go to a specified page number in a book, if it is not within the currently displayed *.fm file? 2. Is there a way to display the same document in two windows or in a split window? 3. What is the best way to create a TOC or index conforming to a predefined template? The method that I have used so far is the following: a. Copy the TOC and index templates to the document directory. b. Rename the files according to the convention TOC.fm and IX.fm. c. Open the *.book file and choose Add > TOC or Add > Standard Index. FM places the TOC and index in the above files and adds them to the book. Is that the right way? 4. On one computer, I accidentally moved my toolbar (the Quick Access Bar) to a floating position within the document window. How can I can move it back to the docked position at the top of the FM window? It refuses to dock. 5. If I shorten a document, I need to manually delete the blank pages at the end of the document. Shouldn't the pages disappear automatically? 6. Can I create a book of books? My idea is to create a "super-book" that I can use for global operations such as find/replace or import-formats throughout a documentation set. However, I must be careful not to inadvertently change the page and chapter numbering or corrupt any XRefs while doing this. Thanks in advance. David Shaked (Wernick) AlmondWeb Ltd. http://www.almondweb.com Technical Documentation * Web Development * Word and WebWorks Consultants
Need some FM tips
See answers below. Regards, Shmuel Wolfson David Shaked (Wernick) wrote: > Can I ask the list members for some tips on various FM techniques? I am > using FM 7.2. Most of these questions (except #6) are about techniques that > are easy to use in Word, and I haven't yet found an FM equivalent. > > > 1. Navigation techniques. Are there quick ways, such as shortcut keys, to do > the following: > >a. Display the book window? *I always make sure the book is the first thing I open in FM. This way it's easy to go to the book via the Window menu, or ALT+W+1.* >b. After following a cross reference (Alt+Ctrl+Click), go back to the > cross reference? >c. Go back to the last place that I edited? >d. Go to a specified page number in a book, if it is not within the > currently displayed *.fm file? > > > 2. Is there a way to display the same document in two windows or in a split > window? > > > 3. What is the best way to create a TOC or index conforming to a predefined > template? The method that I have used so far is the following: > >a. Copy the TOC and index templates to the document directory. >b. Rename the files according to the convention TOC.fm and > IX.fm. >c. Open the *.book file and choose Add > TOC or Add > Standard Index. FM > places the TOC and index in the above files and adds them to the book. > >Is that the right way? > *The standard way would be to insert a TOC, open the template TOC and import the relevant formats to the new TOC. But I your way better.* > > 4. On one computer, I accidentally moved my toolbar (the Quick Access Bar) > to a floating position within the document window. How can I can move it > back to the docked position at the top of the FM window? It refuses to dock. > > > 5. If I shorten a document, I need to manually delete the blank pages at the > end of the document. Shouldn't the pages disappear automatically? > *Only if you select Delete Empty Pages in the pagination settings. Then they disappear when you update the book. But this does not help when you always want even pages in the file.* > > 6. Can I create a book of books? My idea is to create a "super-book" that I > can use for global operations such as find/replace or import-formats > throughout a documentation set. However, I must be careful not to > inadvertently change the page and chapter numbering or corrupt any XRefs > while doing this. > *I assume that this is possible since there a a volume numbering option under numbering. See FM help for Volume.* > > Thanks in advance. > > David Shaked (Wernick) > > AlmondWeb Ltd. > http://www.almondweb.com > Technical Documentation * Web Development * Word and WebWorks Consultants > > > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as sbw at actcom.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sbw%40actcom.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > >
Need some FM tips
David Shaked (Wernick) wrote: > Can I ask the list members for some tips on various FM > techniques? I am using FM 7.2. Most of these questions > (except #6) are about techniques that are easy to use in > Word, and I haven't yet found an FM equivalent. > > > 1. Navigation techniques. Are there quick ways, such as > shortcut keys, to do the following: > >a. Display the book window? >b. After following a cross reference (Alt+Ctrl+Click), go > back to the cross reference? >c. Go back to the last place that I edited? >d. Go to a specified page number in a book, if it is not > within the currently displayed *.fm file? Ctrl+Tab cycles through the open windows within FM. Use Ctrl+g to go to a page or to the insertion point. For lots of menu and toolbar enhancements, including more navigation tools, go to www.microtype.com/resources.html and get ToolbarPlus. While you're at that site, click Links and check out some of the FM resources and tools listed. Don't forget to bookmark that page! > 2. Is there a way to display the same document in two windows > or in a split window? Yes, if you get Enhance (www.sandybrook.com/enhance/), which has many other compelling features. > 3. What is the best way to create a TOC or index conforming > to a predefined template? The method that I have used so far > is the following: > >a. Copy the TOC and index templates to the document directory. >b. Rename the files according to the convention > TOC.fm and IX.fm. >c. Open the *.book file and choose Add > TOC or Add > > Standard Index. FM places the TOC and index in the above > files and adds them to the book. > >Is that the right way? It's a good way, probably better than most. There are generally several ways to do anything in FM, and the "right" way often depends on your personal preferences and situation. > 4. On one computer, I accidentally moved my toolbar (the > Quick Access Bar) to a floating position within the document > window. How can I can move it back to the docked position at > the top of the FM window? It refuses to dock. Never seen that. Try this: Open maker.ini and find the ShowQuickAccessBar setting. Set it to this: ShowQuickAccessBar=On H > 5. If I shorten a document, I need to manually delete the > blank pages at the end of the document. Shouldn't the pages > disappear automatically? Select Format > Page Layout > Pagination and look at the 1st Page Side (if Double Sided) and Before Saving & Printing settings. Within a book, these settings interact. If your doc is double-sided and you want the following chapter to start on a right-hand (odd) page, this chapter will have to have either zero or one empty page, depending on whether the content ends on a left or right page. If you don't care about where the following chapter starts (or it's a single sided doc) you can select Delete Empty Pages. FM deletes unnecessary empty pages when you save or print. Unless you're applying custom master pages. FM won't delete pages using custom master pages, only default Right/Left pages. > 6. Can I create a book of books? My idea is to create a > "super-book" that I can use for global operations such as > find/replace or import-formats throughout a documentation > set. However, I must be careful not to inadvertently change > the page and chapter numbering or corrupt any XRefs while doing this. No, but the same files can be put into any number of books. So you can create a "master" book that contains all the chapter files in your suite of 10 manuals, and use the "master" book just for global operations like updating variables, generating an index of imported graphics, etc. > Thanks in advance. HTH! Richard -- Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 -- rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 --
Need some FM tips
>> 4. On one computer, I accidentally moved my toolbar (the Quick Access >> Bar) >> to a floating position within the document window. How can I can move it >> back to the docked position at the top of the FM window? It refuses >> to dock. There's a button on the main toolbar - the one that contains the basic text formatting options. The button icon looks like a horizontal bar with a curved arrow to a vertical bar. For me it's on the very left of the toolbar next to the help *?* icon (if your toolbar is floating it's at the top right I think). Click this button to dock the toolbar again. Regards, Jo
Need some FM tips
David Shaked (Wernick) wrote: > Can I ask the list members for some tips on various FM techniques? I am > using FM 7.2. Most of these questions (except #6) are about techniques that > are easy to use in Word, and I haven't yet found an FM equivalent. > > > 1. Navigation techniques. Are there quick ways, such as shortcut keys, to do > the following: > >a. Display the book window? Always open your book file first before opening its contained files. Then Alt+w 1 (digit one) opens the book window. >b. After following a cross reference (Alt+Ctrl+Click), go back to the > cross reference? I don't think that's possible. >c. Go back to the last place that I edited? If you haven't repositioned your insertion point, just press the left then right arrow keys. >d. Go to a specified page number in a book, if it is not within the > currently displayed *.fm file? I don't think that's possible. The navigation commands except for hyperlinks all apply only to the displayed file. But you can switch to the book window and see what page numbers apply to which files (select a file, check the status bar) and switch to that file. Then type Ctrl+g or double-click the page number on the status bar to open the Go To dialog box. > > > 2. Is there a way to display the same document in two windows or in a split > window? You can launch a second instance of FM and open the same file in it. I haven't played with that myself, but I think I'd make the second instance View Only so that I wouldn't have problems saving different versions over each other. See the Help topic, Working in view-only documents and books. > > > 3. What is the best way to create a TOC or index conforming to a predefined > template? The method that I have used so far is the following: > >a. Copy the TOC and index templates to the document directory. >b. Rename the files according to the convention TOC.fm and > IX.fm. >c. Open the *.book file and choose Add > TOC or Add > Standard Index. FM > places the TOC and index in the above files and adds them to the book. > >Is that the right way? That's a good way. Or you can Add > Table of Contents and then import formats from the template TOC. See the Help topics, Generating TOCs and other lists, and Formatting lists and indexes using templates. > > > 4. On one computer, I accidentally moved my toolbar (the Quick Access Bar) > to a floating position within the document window. How can I can move it > back to the docked position at the top of the FM window? It refuses to dock. One of the buttons at the top of the floating bar looks like a carpenter's square with a little curved arrow. Click it. > > > 5. If I shorten a document, I need to manually delete the blank pages at the > end of the document. Shouldn't the pages disappear automatically? In Format > Page Layout > Pagination, select either Delete Empty Pages or Make Page Count Even. See the Help topic, Changing the pagination, and the topics it links to; there are interactions within books, and situations where pages aren't actually "empty." > > > 6. Can I create a book of books? My idea is to create a "super-book" that I > can use for global operations such as find/replace or import-formats > throughout a documentation set. However, I must be careful not to > inadvertently change the page and chapter numbering or corrupt any XRefs > while doing this. Others have answered this one for you. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com "Developers explain How the Product Works. Technical writers explain How to Work the Product."
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Hello David, > 1.b. After following a cross reference (Alt+Ctrl+Click), > go back to the cross reference? - Jumps within the same document: Esc vP (internal FM command GotoPreviousView) - Jumps to other documents: Ctrl+Tab If you have FrameScript (http://www.framescript.com), there are free scripts available for the following: > 1.a. shortcut keys, to [...] display the book window? Ctrl+Shift+B with the FrameScript TileBookWindows.fsl: http://www.itl.eu/108.0.html?=1#c1859 > 1.d. Go to a specified page number in a book Ctrl+Shift+G with the FrameScript GotoPage.fsl: http://www.itl.eu/108.0.html?=1#c1981 Kind regards, Klaus M?ller, itl AG
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David Shaked (Wernick) wrote: > 6. Can I create a book of books? My idea is to create a "super-book" that I > can use for global operations such as find/replace or import-formats > throughout a documentation set. However, I must be careful not to > inadvertently change the page and chapter numbering or corrupt any XRefs > while doing this. > We offer a free plugin called ComboBook that builds a book from multiple books .. http://www.leximation.com/tools/info/combobook.php ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 > >
Need some FM tips
FWIW - I keep a folder in Outlook called Tips & Tricks, and when something useful comes across a list like this, I just drag it in there. If the email does not have a helpful title, then I forward it to myself and rename it before saving it. john
