Used to be if you put an en dash in front of something with no space
between, the en dash would stick to the something if it wrapped to the next
line.
It doesn't do that anymore, which is bad for me as I use it instead of a
hyphen to indicate negative numbers. This has been reported as a bug to
Well, it has been almost 24 hours now, and I still do not have a resolution
from Adobe Support. Priyank has been like a dog on a bone trying to get
support to assist me, but they have gone dark and have not replied to him
and save one reply to me asking me when I am going to be available (and
I've literally just given a class of tech comm students this very task. They
had to create a template for FrameMaker, and then "self-document" the
template. They have to explain in clear terms, geared to junior writers, how
to use the template, why they would use styles, how to work with the
As an occasional FM user I heartily endorse David's suggestion about
templates. Would have saved me untold hours.
Bill
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From: Framers
On Behalf Of David Artman
Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 11:37 AM
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Subject:
This might seem like a naive question, but why not write up a User
Guide for using your templates and modifying existing documents? Let
them stay in FrameMaker, especially if they don't anticipate restyling
(and when they do, they can call and you can knock it out).
There's nothing
Hi Bernard,
Thank you for explanation. To add to it, in some cases I am able to work up
a small prototype that you can show your boss. When they see how much faster
a script can make things, they are usually more open to paying for
automation. In other words, seeing is believing.
Rick
;)
Hey, talk to the boss. Then have Rick talk to the boss. Just, you know, a
general conversation. If that doesn't help... :D
Seriously though, I always use the "there are things I know the software cannot
do by itself, but with a scripted solution I know that this can be overcome"
and then
Hi Rick
There is this very old FrameMaker bug where text is formatted incorrectly
if there is inline markup in list items (ol/li or ul/li). It has been
described at length here and Frame experts like Lynne Price and Scott
Prentice have also been looking into it:
