OT: Reference list formatting

2013-02-13 Thread Alan T Litchfield
There are a bunch of systems that will produce formatted output, but none that I know of that are smart enough to understand a random selection of formats and recreate them in format x. No doubt people will chime in with their favourites, some are seemingly better at some formats than others, s

RE: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Fred Ridder
Note that creation of a .lck file is an option that the user can turn on or off. In the "General" tab of the FrameMaker Preferences dialog, it's the "Network File Locking" option. (At least that's what it's been named and where it's been located in every version from 5.5.6 through 9, which is w

"FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Robert Lauriston
If Adobe has dropped support for file sharing on shared drives, they should get rid of the locks. Unless the data-files-must-be-local thing is working around a bug. On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Ken Poshedly wrote: > Yes, an .lck file is created but perhaps it no longer does what it used to >

"FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Ken Poshedly
the flaky, intermittent nature of my coworker's FM >crashes > because that (the "wrong" way is just how we've been doing things here. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130213/dcceef01/attachment.html>

Re: OT: HTML Help Related Topics control and character encoding

2013-02-13 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:32:23 -0500, Jim Owens wrote: >Hi, Jeremy. I'm using SBAppLocale to compile (as recommended in the >Mif2Go Guide!), and Search is working OK in Arabic. In fact, the Arabic >is OK everywhere in the output -- > >The pages are all encoded with windows-1256. You're right o

"FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Robert Lauriston
That's a pretty radical change. Does FM11 not create .lck files when you open an .fm file? On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Ken Poshedly wrote: > I just learned from Adobe tech support (via phone call) that the permissions > in > FrameMaker 11.0 have been modified so that the data files should a

cannot generate PDF

2013-02-13 Thread Art Campbell
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2013-02-13 Thread Ken Poshedly
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2013-02-13 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
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FW: cannot generate PDF

2013-02-13 Thread Robert Lauriston
Save As PDF works perfectly for me so long as the currently selected printer is Adobe PDF. I set that as the default printer and if I need hard copy print from a PDF. On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Jeff Coatsworth wrote: > Jeff, > > > >I am using the Save As to generate the PDF.

Re: OT: HTML Help Related Topics control and character encoding

2013-02-13 Thread Jim Owens
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2013-02-13 Thread William W. Saylor, PE
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Reference list formatting

2013-02-13 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Steve, I do not know any special bibliography software. With regular software I imagine two ways: o FrameScript/ExtendScript Of course you could write a script which does everything what you want. I doubt whether it will pay off. o Search and replace all delimiters (space, comma etc.) wit

Re: best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?

2013-02-13 Thread Writer
Thanks, Keith. Nadine > Well, it's designed for content reuse, so sharing common content across  > projects is easy. Since it's topic based, it's easy for more than one > writer to work on a project. It also has some very nice reporting and > tracking > features.  If I was working on a large

best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?

2013-02-13 Thread Writer
Thanks, Keith. Nadine > Well, it's designed for content reuse, so sharing common content across? > projects is easy. Since it's topic based, it's easy for more than one > writer to work on a project. It also has some very nice reporting and > tracking > features.? If I was working on a large

Re: OT: HTML Help Related Topics control and character encoding

2013-02-13 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 05:44:07 -0500, Jim Owens wrote: >We're using the HTML Help Related Topics ActiveX control. When we >create an with Arabic text for the title, the wrong characters >appear in the Topics Found dialog box, even when the system locale is >set to Arabic. Everything else in t

FW: cannot generate PDF

2013-02-13 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Jeff, I am using the Save As to generate the PDF. I could print the chapter successfully to my local HP OfficeJet and every other chapter works just fine making a PDF. The page in question has about five images (MathType equations come in as images) but they look no different fro

"FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-13 Thread Ken Poshedly
rror numbers specifically mean? * Is/are the error/errors caused by a hardware problem or a software problem? -- Ken in Atlanta -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130213/415f464f/attachment.html>

Re: best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?

2013-02-13 Thread Writer
> Flare has some advantages and I'd consider it for large projects where I  > could start from scratch Kieth, do you mean if you were authoring from within Flare? What are those advantages? Thanks, Nadine ___ You are currently subscribed to framers

best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?

2013-02-13 Thread Writer
> Flare has some advantages and I'd consider it for large projects where I? > could start from scratch Kieth, do you mean if you were authoring from within Flare? What are those advantages? Thanks, Nadine

Re: cannot generate PDF

2013-02-13 Thread Art Campbell
What Jeff asked -- tell us about your system set up: OS / FM version and patch level / Acrobat version and patch, and how you're trying to create the PDF. In particular, if you get the same results printing to the Adobe Acrobat logical printer as when you use SaveAs PDF (which I wouldn't recommend)

RE: cannot generate PDF

2013-02-13 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
Are you printing to the Adobe PDF printer instance or using Save As PDF? Is it working for any other docs or are they all busted? Do you have the full Acrobat version or just the headless one that ships with FM? From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto

OT: HTML Help Related Topics control and character encoding

2013-02-13 Thread Jim Owens
We're using the HTML Help Related Topics ActiveX control. When we create an with Arabic text for the title, the wrong characters appear in the Topics Found dialog box, even when the system locale is set to Arabic. Everything else in the compiled help uses the correct Arabic characters, wheth

Re: OT: Reference list formatting

2013-02-13 Thread Grant Hogarth
All I can think of is to do a repetitive search-and-replace for some of this, but most of it would have to be hand-done. Grant On 2/12/2013 1:10 PM, Steve Rickaby wrote: Do any academic editors out there know of any software that will take an existing reference list made up of entries in a var

RE: Vertical Alignment Bottom

2013-02-13 Thread Craig Ede
From: Craig Ede [mailto:craig...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 5:54 PM To: 'Rick Quatro' Subject: RE: Vertical Alignment Bottom I suppose you could set the space above for your paragraph tag to something that would push the text to the bottom of the text frame. Framemaker

Re: OT: Reference list formatting

2013-02-13 Thread Robert Lauriston
Endnote? http://endnote.com/ On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Steve Rickaby wrote: > Do any academic editors out there know of any software that will take an > existing reference list made up of entries in a variety of formats and render > a list in which all references have the same format?

RE: Reference list formatting

2013-02-13 Thread Keith Soltys
You may want to check out Paul Beverley's book of Word macros. He has some that should help with this. http://www.archivepub.co.uk/macros.html Regards Keith > -Original Message- > From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers- > boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of St

cannot generate PDF

2013-02-13 Thread William W. Saylor, PE
I am trying to generate a PDF output on a chapter of a book in FM10 and I get error messages in the log that are not very helpful to me. Here is the offending part of the log: %%[Page: 15]%% %%[Page: 16]%% %%[Page: 17]%% %%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingC

RE: best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?

2013-02-13 Thread Keith Soltys
Ditto for me. It took a lot of work to convert my first FrameMaker book. The process with WebWorks ePublisher was (and remains), much, much quicker for conversion. Flare has some advantages and I'd consider it for large projects where I could start from scratch, but if I had a lot of FrameMaker

OT: HTML Help Related Topics control and character encoding

2013-02-13 Thread Jim Owens
We're using the HTML Help Related Topics ActiveX control. When we create an with Arabic text for the title, the wrong characters appear in the Topics Found dialog box, even when the system locale is set to Arabic. Everything else in the compiled help uses the correct Arabic characters, wheth

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