RE: FM 7.2 XSLT and unicode characters

2006-05-08 Thread Wim Hooghwinkel \(Scriptware\)
Thank you, very helpfull. Whe you say: translate Unicode characters to character entities (e.g., ccaron;) I can't get the character entitie displayed correct in FrameMaker, it either becomes a variable (with the unicode value or (when mapped in the rules file) a wrong character? Met

Comparing Astoria to Vasont

2006-05-08 Thread Jim Light
Has anyone compared Astoria to Vasont as a CMS system appropriate for use with Structured FrameMaker? Any showstoppers for either? Any recommendations? Thanks Jim Light ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Conversion Insets to SFM

2006-05-08 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 08:30 AM 5/8/2006, Jim Light wrote: I need to create a conversion table to convert a non-structured document to SFM. ... How does the conversion mechanism deal with insets? Jim, Since text insets remain text insets when a document is structured, the conversion table cannot change the

RE: Conversion Insets to SFM

2006-05-08 Thread Jim Light
Follow up? All my insets are currently unstructured FrameMaker files. The conversion would leave them as structured FrameMaker files, I suppose. If so, that means that when I export the container file as XML all the insets would be included within the XML. TO get separate XML files on export,

Re: How do YOU format page alignment in FM TOCs

2006-05-08 Thread Mike Wickham
$paranum\t$paratext\t\t$pagenum which now does what I want. If the TOC entry is one line, no impact. If the TOC entry is two lines, the page number still right aligns. This is what I want. However...I'm interested in other ways of doing this. If anyone has a more gracefull way of addressing it,

RE: Conversion Insets to SFM

2006-05-08 Thread Spreadbury, David
I have been watching this thread with not a little interest. This sounds like the West Street Consulting plug-in InsetPlus would be the tool of choice. Wouldn't hurt to take a look at it. http://www.weststreetconsulting.com/WSC_PurchaseDownloads.htm And the price is right, free. -Original

Re: How do YOU format page alignment in FM TOCs

2006-05-08 Thread John Posada
$paranum\t$paratext\t\t$pagenum which now does what I want. I don't know if it's more graceful, but I use a run-in paragraph for $chapnum and a separate in-column paragraph for the rest. This Thanks, The \t\t seems works OK for now. The only tweak I'd like to make is to have the page

Re: 2-pane Page in WebWorks Standard?

2006-05-08 Thread John Posada
Is the whole purpose of this to create sidehead heading? The documentation (such as it is :)) for WebWorks Standard, which comes with FrameMaker 7.0, says it can create a 2-frame page for a multi-doc set where the titles of the docs remain listed in the left pane while the contents

Old Pagemaker Files

2006-05-08 Thread Don and Judy
Hi, gang! Anyone ever found a way to convert old Mac OS PageMaker files into FM? ~ Don S. ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL

sluggish scrolling

2006-05-08 Thread rebecca officer
Hi folks This is just an annoyance, but I thought I'd ask in case I'm doing something horribly wrong. I'm doing a lot of work in an FM document that includes a 75-page long table, landscape format. When I use the mouse wheel to scroll from page to page, the response is mostly pretty jerky -

FM 7.2 XSLT and unicode characters

2006-05-08 Thread Wim Hooghwinkel (Scriptware)
Thank you, very helpfull. Whe you say: translate Unicode characters to character entities (e.g., ) I can't get the character entitie displayed correct in FrameMaker, it either becomes a variable (with the unicode value or (when mapped in the rules file) a wrong character? Met vriendelijke

FM 7.2 XSLT and unicode characters

2006-05-08 Thread Wim Hooghwinkel (Scriptware)
Thnak you. one question: if you say - does this mean that the whole target XML will be in ASCII or only the 'changed' parts? What effect would this have on other unicode characters that we don't want to convert? And: can such a XSLT also be used on export of XML to transform the ASCII back

Framers Digest, Vol 7, Issue 7

2006-05-08 Thread susan.mcdon...@teradyne.com
A couple of things: set the autonumber format in the Paragraph format to <$chapnum> instead of . Frame uses the chapnum variable automatically, set up the numbering from the Book file (you can do this in each file, but I just find it easier to work from the book file). To set up the

Autonumbering in book

2006-05-08 Thread susan.mcdon...@teradyne.com
Oops! I forgot the version of Frame that he is using does not use chapnum. Sorry! Susan - Forwarded by Susan Mcdonald/Bos/Teradyne on 05/08/2006 09:55 AM - Susan Mcdonald/Bos/Teradyne 05/08/2006 09:52 AM To framers at lists.frameusers.com cc Subject Re: Framers Digest, Vol 7, Issue

FM 7.2 XSLT and unicode characters

2006-05-08 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 05:55 AM 5/8/2006, Wim Hooghwinkel \(Scriptware\) wrote: >I can't get the character entitie displayed correct in FrameMaker, it >either becomes a variable (with the unicode value or (when mapped in the >rules file) a wrong character? Wim, Make sure your r/w rules specify FrameMaker

Comparing Astoria to Vasont

2006-05-08 Thread Jim Light
Has anyone compared Astoria to Vasont as a CMS system appropriate for use with Structured FrameMaker? Any showstoppers for either? Any recommendations? Thanks Jim Light

Conversion Insets to SFM

2006-05-08 Thread Jim Light
I need to create a conversion table to convert a non-structured document to SFM. The files contain insets and I have not dealt with insets, yet, so I have two questions: I know that the spell checker and the Find/Change utility cannot search insets, so I'm worried about how the conversion tool

Conversion Insets to SFM

2006-05-08 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 08:30 AM 5/8/2006, Jim Light wrote: >I need to create a conversion table to convert a non-structured document >to SFM. ... How does the conversion mechanism deal with insets? Jim, Since text insets remain text insets when a document is structured, the conversion table cannot change the

Conversion Insets to SFM

2006-05-08 Thread Jim Light
Follow up? All my insets are currently unstructured FrameMaker files. The conversion would leave them as structured FrameMaker files, I suppose. If so, that means that when I export the container file as XML all the insets would be included within the XML. TO get separate XML files on export,

How do YOU format page alignment in FM TOCs

2006-05-08 Thread Mike Wickham
> <$paranum>\t<$paratext>\t\t<$pagenum> > > which now does what I want. If the TOC entry is one line, no impact. > If the TOC entry is two lines, the page number still right aligns. > This is what I want. > > However...I'm interested in other ways of doing this. If anyone has a > more gracefull

Conversion Insets to SFM

2006-05-08 Thread Spreadbury, David
I have been watching this thread with not a little interest. This sounds like the West Street Consulting plug-in "InsetPlus" would be the tool of choice. Wouldn't hurt to take a look at it. http://www.weststreetconsulting.com/WSC_PurchaseDownloads.htm And the price is right, free.

Conversion Insets to SFM

2006-05-08 Thread Spreadbury, David
I have been watching this thread with not a little interest. This sounds like the West Street Consulting plug-in "InsetPlus" would be the tool of choice. Wouldn't hurt to take a look at it. http://www.weststreetconsulting.com/WSC_PurchaseDownloads.htm And the price is right, free.

How do YOU format page alignment in FM TOCs

2006-05-08 Thread John Posada
> > <$paranum>\t<$paratext>\t\t<$pagenum> > > which now does what I want. > > I don't know if it's more graceful, but I use a run-in > paragraph for <$chapnum> and a separate in-column paragraph > for the rest. This Thanks, The \t\t seems works OK for now. The only tweak I'd like to make is

2-pane Page in WebWorks Standard?

2006-05-08 Thread Joanne Curme
The documentation (such as it is :)) for WebWorks Standard, which comes with FrameMaker 7.0, says it can create a 2-frame page for a multi-doc set where the titles of the docs remain listed in the left pane while the contents display in the right pane. I have not been able to get this to work in

Index woes in WebWorks ePublisher from FM 7.2

2006-05-08 Thread John Sgammato
I appreciate any guidance on this frustrating puzzle - I am generating WW Help 5 from a 258pp, 21-chapter software manual done in FrameMaker 7.2. I use pretty mundane indexing, with some help from IXgen. There are some multiple entries in a single marker, a few <$nopage> entries, but nothing

2-pane Page in WebWorks Standard?

2006-05-08 Thread Martha J Davidson
It sounds like you might want to use the frameset version of the Dynamic HTML template. I have made this work when I configured it all in WWP Pro, then ran the template in WWP Standard. I'm not sure where in WWP Standard to find the settings that make this work. In the frameset version of the

Old Pagemaker Files

2006-05-08 Thread Don and Judy
Hi, gang! Anyone ever found a way to convert old Mac OS PageMaker files into FM? ~ Don S.