SOLVED -- Re: Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic, Minion Pro, andAuld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All

All: At Tuesday, 12/02/2008, 04:38 AM;, you wrote: >Your latest message must have been transmitted in MIME format. It >came through silent. :) Now that I've got everyone's attention ... somehow that paste didn't happen and I sent off an empty message. Sorry if it didn't satisfy your humger

SOLVED -- Re: Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic, Minion Pro, andAuld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All

All: At Tuesday, 12/02/2008, 04:38 AM;, you wrote: Your latest message must have been transmitted in MIME format. It came through silent. :) Now that I've got everyone's attention ... somehow that paste didn't happen and I sent off an empty message. Sorry if it didn't satisfy your humger

Re: Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic, Minion Pro, and Auld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All

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Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic, Minion Pro, and Auld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All.

Smart Quotes is on but when I press ' or ", question marks (?) appear in Gentium Basic and Minion Pro fonts, not quotes. Gentium Basic was selected for testing because it is an Unicode conforming font that supports every alphabet based on roman or cyrillic glyphs, including accents. It is

Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic, Minion Pro, and Auld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All

Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic, Minion Pro, and Auld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All.

Smart Quotes is on but when I press ' or , question marks (?) appear in Gentium Basic and Minion Pro fonts, not quotes. Gentium Basic was selected for testing because it is an Unicode conforming font that supports every alphabet based on roman or cyrillic glyphs, including accents. It is

oldie

At Tuesday, 5/02/2008, 07:05 AM;, you wrote: > I've been on it since it was hosted on uunet; >I forget what year. After that I recall three volunteer admins >at different universities before Brad came along... ;-) > >Who else? Me, me, me! I've used FM from v. 3.0 on every platform except

Re: oldie

At Tuesday, 5/02/2008, 07:05 AM;, you wrote: raises hand I've been on it since it was hosted on uunet; I forget what year. After that I recall three volunteer admins at different universities before Brad came along... ;-) Who else? Me, me, me! I've used FM from v. 3.0 on every platform

Easiest way to migrate from one FM template to another

Verner: At Thursday, 8/11/2007, 07:56 PM;, you wrote: >I am using unstructured Framemaker. >I am going to migrate from one FM template to a new one. The migration >includes new names for paragraph styles in many documents. A problem with just importing formats is that all the old formats are

Re: Easiest way to migrate from one FM template to another

Verner: At Thursday, 8/11/2007, 07:56 PM;, you wrote: I am using unstructured Framemaker. I am going to migrate from one FM template to a new one. The migration includes new names for paragraph styles in many documents. A problem with just importing formats is that all the old formats are

Academic pricing [was "Re: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite"]

Anyone know if academic pricing is available? -- Hedley Stewart Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Mobile +61 412 461 558, E-mail

Don't forget Blaze [was "Re: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite"]

Eric: At Wednesday, 26/09/2007, 11:20 PM;, you wrote: On 9/25/07, Hedley Finger <[1] hfinger at handholding.com.au> wrote: Well, it will be if we ALL start screaming for So, everyone get on it: [2]http://www.adobe.com/support/feature.html How

Academic pricing [was Re: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite]

Anyone know if academic pricing is available? -- Hedley Stewart Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Mobile +61 412 461 558, E-mail mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers

Don't forget Blaze [was Re: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite]

Eric: At Wednesday, 26/09/2007, 11:20 PM;, you wrote: On 9/25/07, Hedley Finger [1] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it will be if we ALL start screaming for So, everyone get on it: [2]http://www.adobe.com/support/feature.html How about someone re-write

Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

Bodvar and others: At Tuesday, 25/09/2007, 07:07 PM;, you wrote: >IMHO it only remains for Adobe to realise that FM is also one of the >best tools for regular book layout, Well, it will be if we ALL start screaming for @ working in double-spreads, i.e. -- photographs and

Re: Adobe Unveils Technical Communication Suite

Bodvar and others: At Tuesday, 25/09/2007, 07:07 PM;, you wrote: IMHO it only remains for Adobe to realise that FM is also one of the best tools for regular book layout, Well, it will be if we ALL start screaming for @ working in double-spreads, i.e. -- photographs and

Curmudgeon's Corner: "alternate pages"

I would like to congratulate the correspondents recently discussing page numbering on "alternate pages" for getting it right. "Alternate" means "by turns", or "alternating between one item and another item", and so on. So many people seem to think it is a synonym of "alternative". Not so:

Curmudgeon's Corner: alternate pages

I would like to congratulate the correspondents recently discussing page numbering on alternate pages for getting it right. Alternate means by turns, or alternating between one item and another item, and so on. So many people seem to think it is a synonym of alternative. Not so: you can

Re: Footnote placement improvement for practical and aesthetic reasons

but until a few things are fixed (like interfacing to BiblioText, etc) it ain't going to happen. In fact, press a few more buttons and you can get me ranting about how FrameMaker should always work in double spreads -- balancing facing short pages would be a good start. -- Hedley Finger Training

Re: Job Opening: Long-Term Contract Publications Production

might be doing some other work for someone else in the 10-15 hours per week beyond your 30 hours? Are they going to drop that and come in whenever at your whim? Get real. -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371

Hyperlink marker gotcha to be aware of

-known limit. -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood VIC 3151 Australia mailto:hedleyDOTfingerATmyobDOTcom Tel. +61 3 9222 9992 x

The living dead: RoboHelp for FrameMaker walks among us!

http://www.adobe.com/support/robohelpframemaker/downloads.html No doubt this link had already been posted on the lists and I'm the last to know -- as usual. -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC

Re: Structured Frame saving XML

matter. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood VIC 3151 Australia mailto:hedleyDOTfingerATmyobDOTcom Tel. +61 3 9222

RE: Structured Frame saving XML

As well as the other suggestions re read/write rules, perhaps you could turn Smart Spaces off. -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East

Re: looking for a way to automate alignment in tables

-- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood VIC 3151 Australia mailto:hedleyDOTfingerATmyobDOTcom Tel. +61 3 9222 9992 x 7421, Mob. (cell

Re: Character format enhancement, Was: Find / Replace special

relative to the host size Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood VIC 3151 Australia

Re: Third-party or out of the box plugins [was re: Frame's future]

the bonnet, Google doesn't work too well with your Haynes repair manual.. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood

Re: Third-party or out of the box plugins [was re: Frame's future]

to information retrieval. But EVERYBODY knows how to use a back-of-the-book index -- even if it is on-line! And they will probably print out just the pages they need to fix the warp drive. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http

Third-party or out of the box plugins [was re: Frame's future]

page numbers but if, say, the pagination is radically different in a new edition (think of the various paperback, hardcover and coffee-table edition of Dava Sobel's Longitude) the index has to be manually recompiled! Truly! -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB

Re: Frame's future

that there is a crying need for a decent indexing interface on a par with Cindex or Sky Index. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East

Re: First Hurdle

. Otherwise, you should look at Advantica Sourcerer or West Street ABCM (= A Better Condition Manager? H), which both apply conditional attributes the proper XML way. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au

RE: Asking a favor

an acronym he/she would also write what it stands for in parentheses at least once The approved nomenclature for acronym is TLA or YAA -- Three-Letter Acronym or Yet Another Acronym. 8^) Hope this amuses, if not helps. -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB

FrameMaker 5.5.6 Word InDesign help needed

assist in this conversion please contact Mary Ann directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or by calling mobile 0425 794 949 (+61 425 794 949). Thanks, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia

Re: FM 7.1 Compatibility

Will: he had some OLE issues but that is not surprising. You don't need OLE. Import graphics by reference. If you double-click on them, they will open in the associated graphics program. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty

Re: Ipsum Lorem?

You can install a Lorem Ipsum generator in Firefox called Dummy Lipsum. -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood VIC 3151

Re: Grouping Definitions

...) Hedley -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood VIC 3151 Australia mailto:hedleyDOTfingerATmyobDOTcom Tel. +61 3 9222 9992 x 7421, Mob

RE: Difference between us and international english Framemaker

we standardize on? Both. Use conditions. Regards, Hedley * A.k.a. the right way. ** A.k.a. the wrong way. -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business

Where is www.frameusers.com?

Firefox (where do they get these names?) and Internet Explorer v. 7 are just showing a blank page for http://www.frameusers.com/, not even the Site under reconstruction message. What gives? Or have I been transported to an alternative universe where it no longer exists? -- Hedley Finger

Acrobatlateral thinking : Implement simultaneous multiple releases [was RE: Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0]

running. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood VIC 3151 Australia mailto:hedleyDOTfingerATmyobDOTcom Tel. +61 3

RE: Acrobatlateral thinking : Implement simultaneous multiple releases [was RE: Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0]

, just as I do with FrameMaker 7.0. Regards, Hedleyu -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood VIC 3151 Australia

Re: Cond Text in a text inset

of condition indicators, and whether condition indicators are on or off will override those in the text inset, whatever their state in the text inset. That is, provided you have allowed the host formats to override those in the text inset when you import it. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Training

RE: Can User Variable value be changed at book level?

$volnum to a fixed value for all the selected components in the group. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Training Content Developer and Tools Specialist MYOB Australia Pty Ltd http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood

How to download Adobe updates

When I launch FM on Windows XP, an alert informs me that FM is checking for updates, but then an error message states that a file could not be downloaded. This is probably because of IT admin's firewall policies. Are there alternative ways of getting these updates? -- Hedley Finger Technical

Re: how to enlarge conditional text window

, Hedley P.S. Hacking the dialogues is so easy (at least up to FM 7.1) that you wonder why Adobe hasn't assigned the work-experience programmer to do it for ALL those annoyingly tiny dialogues. -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist MYOB Australia http://myob.com/au

Re: how to enlarge conditional text window

help myself.] Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist MYOB Australia http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood VIC 3151 Australia mailto:hedleyDOTfingerATmyobDOTcom Tel. +61

RE: Going nutso' with a phantom cross-reference

your SQA (whatever that is -- I came in late). Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist MYOB Australia http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood VIC 3151 Australia

RE: Methodology for Source Code Control

the size of the repository to balloon. Actually, Subversion would we worth looking at as an FM version control system. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist MYOB Australia http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court

File type has changed (???) when Open Source text inset

of FM -- result: no File type changed. Anybody got a handle on this one? Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist MYOB Australia http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood

Re: FrameMaker convert to CMYK on output to PDF? Convert to CMYK via Plug-in during Pre Press?

it with a stick). For example, l Link‘$paratext’ on page\ $pagenum/ where / is equivalent to Default Para Font. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist MYOB Australia http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley

Opening all text insets in all components in a book ... phew!

me Adobe are working on this right now for the mythical (?) v 8.0. You can imagine the benefits for spell-checking, etc. globally over the entire content of a publication, and other global tasks, e.g. fixing cross-references, etc. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools

RE: Technical Writing Suite From Adobe

, and Word. Sob! Hedley -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist MYOB Australia http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood VIC 3151 Australia mailto:hedleyDOTfingerATmyobDOTcom Tel. +61 3 9222

Re: Exporting RTF or MIF from InDesign

Of course, if export to FM from InDesign was implemented, certain wild-eyed types would immediately assume that Adobe were going to discontinue InDesign in favour of FrameMaker. Moo-err-h-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! [think Vincent Price]. -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes

maker.ini entries for Line End Options dialogue

arrows? Examining the maker.ini files in my home directory and in the FrameMaker directory doesn't reveal any obvious or even obscure entries. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist MYOB Australia http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC

So will Adobe release RoboHelp for FrameMaker ? 8^)

... seeing as how Adobe acquired the code when it took over Macromedia. Or will Adobe just open-source it? -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist MYOB Australia http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park

Fw: Keycaps fonts lose their already shady characters

of caps are slightly smaller, like small capitals. Many grovelling apologies to whoever needs some at the moment. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist MYOB Australia http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court

Keycaps fonts lose their already shady characters

or character format applies the keycaps font. So can someone at Adobe tell me why FrameMaker won't handle these fonts correctly as displayed in Character Map and in the font viewer when you double-click the font file in the Windows Font folder? -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools

Re: I'm lazy

Cripes! Rick must be a bigger mover and shaker than I thought. What with .frameexpert being a top-level domain up there with uk, au, cn, de, fr, etc! http://www.frameexpert/plugins/pagelabeler/ -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist MYOB Australia http

RE: Those old book numbering blues

=0 =0=0 =0 =0 See the section Using counters in autonumber formats in the Text formatting chapter of the User Guide. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist MYOB Australia http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia

RE: Those old book numbering blues

are for the numbering you want to restart for each chapter, e.g. figure, table, equation numbering, etc. Is this what you want? Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Tools Processes Specialist MYOB Australia http://myob.com/au P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley

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