At 16:35 -0400 16/5/12, Stuart Rogers wrote:
OK, here goes. . so as not to disrupt the numbering of other tables in the
book.
Stuart, that is just so awesomely and devilishly cunning ;-) Thanks.
(No problem with numbering here, as table not numbered and document really
consists only of the
On 17/05/2012 4:29 AM, Steve Rickaby wrote:
At 16:35 -0400 16/5/12, Stuart Rogers wrote:
OK, here goes. . so as not to disrupt the numbering of other tables
in the book.
Stuart, that is just so awesomely and devilishly cunning ;-) Thanks.
(No problem with numbering here, as table not
On 16/05/2012 11:21 PM, Oran Petersen wrote:
We started using extensive Cross-refs about 5 years ago. Experienced
similar issues with some not working in pdf. ...
Others may have more insight on this. We are now researching methods
to create named destinations for our manually inserted
Stuart Rogers wrote:
I second Rick Quatro's suggestion to use TimeSavers, but in reading your
conclusions, I can also suggest that you try adding an Index of Markers
or similar generated file to your book, as the last file, which you then
never use or include in print or pdf. From your
And to add onto this, you could convert the generated list into a 1-column
table, then sort it.
On 2012-05-15 16:29, Robert Lauriston wrote:
Is there a utility that will check a FrameMaker book and report
duplicate heading names?
You could use Special List Of Paragraphs (Alphabetical) for
Chris Despopoulos wrote:
And to add onto this, you could convert the generated list into a 1-
column table, then sort it.
On 2012-05-15 16:29, Robert Lauriston wrote:
Is there a utility that will check a FrameMaker book and report
duplicate heading names?
You could use Special List
Oops. I can write, but I can't read!
From: Combs, Richard richard.co...@polycom.com
To: Chris Despopoulos despopoulos_chr...@yahoo.com;
framers@lists.frameusers.com framers@lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 1:43 PM
Subject: RE: utility to
Hi, all;I'm wondering what ever happened to Bruce Foster's "Archive" tool for FM (v8). I am hunting around Carmen Publishing, Leximation, Techknowledgecorp's Handy FrameMaker tools page, and various other sites; and I can not seem to find it anywhere.We just want to open a book, click a menu item,
[Resending because I *always* forget we're on an ancient listserv...]
Hi, all;
I'm wondering what ever happened to Bruce Foster's Archive tool for FM
(v8). I am hunting around Carmen Publishing, Leximation,
Techknowledgecorp's Handy FrameMaker tools page, and various other
sites; and I can not
It seems I discovered that this is a longstanding bug in FrameMaker, as
I found a solution on the Adobe forums that was developed for version
7.1. The bug is still there. If you import a text inset hard against the
pilcrow, it automatically adds a paragraph after the inset. One that you
cannot
I'm working with around a thousand pages here. That would not be practical.
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:34 AM, srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com wrote:
You could use Special List Of Paragraphs (Alphabetical) for all your
headings (or repeated Lists, one heading at a time), and then scan through
EditPad Pro's my text editor of choice, never seen that feature.
What's it called?
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Rick Quatro r...@rickquatro.com wrote:
You could generate a list of paragraphs, save it to a text file, and use a
text editor that can sort lines and show duplicates. I use
Is anyone else working on exporting from FrameMaker to Confluence 4.x,
or actually doing it using anything other than Confluence's Word
import (which is slick but has some serious bugs) or WebWorks (which
generates Confluence 3.x wiki markup rather than 4.x XHTML)?
Skimming an alphabetical list of a thousand or more headings is not a
very efficient or reliable way for me to find duplicates.
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Combs, Richard
richard.co...@polycom.com wrote:
The suggestion was to create an alphabetical list. So it will already be
sorted in
One can pretty easily write a little script (perl, python, etc.) that ticks
through a text dump of this list and flags you for dupes. If you haven't
tried to do this sort of thing, it is worth the effort and will spur you on
to inventing more such tools. That beats the heck out of visually
Bruce died last year - that's why you don't see it around anymore. There's an
archive script built in FM 10, but I don't know of anything off the top of my
head that works in FM 8. Google the frameusers.com site to see discussions
about the Archive tool's fate.
I'm not terribly surprised about this. No, there's nothing very useful
that ships with the product. There's a lot out there in blogs and
wikis and maillists .. but unless you know where to look or who to ask,
you're probably out of luck. Yes .. posting to the FM forum should have
provided more
The problem is that creating a DITA project in FrameMaker is
really no different than doing that in any other XML authoring
tool. You do need to understand the structured FrameMaker UI, but
DITA is DITA regardless of the tool.
Agreed. What might be particular to FM is how to
You should be able to configure Webworks to output XHTML 4.0.
Rick
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Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 4:04 PM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject:
Hi David,
I have both a FrameScript and ExtendScript version (for FrameMaker 10). You
can get a site license for either one for $80. If you are interested, please
contact me off list.
Rick
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
585-283-5045
585-219-8959 fax
r...@frameexpert.com
Is there some way to suppress the page numbers in a FrameMaker 10 list
of paragraphs?
As a workaround I could format them with tabs and use that to strip them.
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From: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
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Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 3:53 PM
To: Craig Ede; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: utility to check that all heading names are unique?
Hmmm ... no
I've evaluated a number of DocBook and DITA authoring tools. With
Oxygen XML, which is the easiest I've tried, I created a sample
project and generated output within ten minutes. It took me somewhat
longer in XMetal but it wasn't hard.
FrameMaker 10 is by far the most opaque putative DocBook /
Hi Robert...
It's unfortunate that you headed down the Structured Application path
.. that has nothing to do with creating a DITA project .. that's how you
create the files that allow you to author in an XML model like DITA or
DocBook, but the DITA structured application has already been
We started using extensive Cross-refs about 5 years ago. Experienced similar
issues with some not working in pdf. At that time we turned on the links, which
generates Named Destinations all over the place, and the issue went away. We
decided to live with the bloated file size and more sluggish
At 16:35 -0400 16/5/12, Stuart Rogers wrote:
>OK, here goes. . so as not to disrupt the numbering of other tables in the
>book.
Stuart, that is just so awesomely and devilishly cunning ;-) Thanks.
(No problem with numbering here, as table not numbered and document really
consists only of the
On 15 May 2012 at 12:01, Steve Cavanaugh wrote:
> There is a clue however - this number only EVER appears on the very last
> page. I have 33 pages here, full of text insets with numbering. None
> misbehaves except the very last one. Anyone have a hint?
Probably this: use empty anchor paragraph
You may want to consider TimeSavers from MicroType
(http://www.microtype.com). It has an "Unbloat" feature which removes all
unused named destinations during the distilling process. You check Create
Named Destinations for All Elements and Paragraphs in the PDF Setup dialog
box; then TimeSavers
On 17/05/2012 4:29 AM, Steve Rickaby wrote:
> At 16:35 -0400 16/5/12, Stuart Rogers wrote:
>
>> OK, here goes. . so as not to disrupt the numbering of other tables
>> in the book.
>
> Stuart, that is just so awesomely and devilishly cunning ;-) Thanks.
>
> (No problem with numbering here, as table
On 16/05/2012 11:21 PM, Oran Petersen wrote:
>
> We started using extensive Cross-refs about 5 years ago. Experienced
> similar issues with some not working in pdf. ...
>
> Others may have more insight on this. We are now researching methods
> to create named destinations for our manually inserted
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> On 2012-05-15 16:29, Robert Lauriston wrote:
> > Is there a utility that will check a FrameMaker book and report
> > duplicate heading names?
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y that makes sense for finding duplicates.
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Skimming an alphabetical list of a thousand or more headings is not a
very efficient or reliable way for me to find duplicates.
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Combs, Richard
wrote:
> The suggestion was to create an alphabetical list. So it will already be
> sorted in the only way that makes
One can pretty easily write a little script (perl, python, etc.) that ticks
through a text dump of this list and flags you for dupes. If you haven't
tried to do this sort of thing, it is worth the effort and will spur you on
to inventing more such tools. That beats the heck out of visually
t (of course) but I'm not sure if that's our
simplest or most cost-effective option (i.e., we don't need "to pack a U-Haul
for a weekend trip," so to speak).
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David
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the following command line (if you are on a Unix system anyway) will probably
work:
sort < inputfile.txt | uniq -c | grep -v " 1 "
to find any lines that are present _more_ than once.
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??really no different than doing that in any other XML authoring
??tool. You do need to understand the structured FrameMaker UI, but
??DITA is DITA regardless of the tool.
Agreed. What might be particular to FM is how
You should be able to configure Webworks to output XHTML 4.0.
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From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
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Hi David,
I have both a FrameScript and ExtendScript version (for FrameMaker 10). You
can get a site license for either one for $80. If you are interested, please
contact me off list.
Rick
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
585-283-5045
585-219-8959 fax
rick at frameexpert.com
Is there some way to suppress the page numbers in a FrameMaker 10 list
of paragraphs?
As a workaround I could format them with tabs and use that to strip them.
Thank you. I miss UNIX.
Craig
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From: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
[mailto:Syed.Hosain at aeris.net]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 3:53 PM
To: Craig Ede; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: utility to check that all heading names are unique?
Hmmm
I've evaluated a number of DocBook and DITA authoring tools. With
Oxygen XML, which is the easiest I've tried, I created a sample
project and generated output within ten minutes. It took me somewhat
longer in XMetal but it wasn't hard.
FrameMaker 10 is by far the most opaque putative DocBook /
gt;>
>> I was really surprised by the thread in the link below. I?d heard that Adobe
>> added cookbooks and samples to the more recent versions of FrameMaker to
>> help people get started with structure, and especially DITA. Is that all
>> hype and no substance? Are you still hearing that people have trouble using
>> DITA out of the box with FrameMaker 10?
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