Re: [Framers] News about the FrameMaker history

2019-08-22 Thread Shmuel
Here's another two that I like for repeating the last command (Esc r,r) and applying the default font (Esc d,d): > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 3:43 PM Lin Sims wrote: > Oooo! I like the back command. I shall add it. Thank you! > > Yes, I edited cmds.cfg to

Re: [Framers] News about the FrameMaker history

2019-08-22 Thread Lin Sims
Oooo! I like the back command. I shall add it. Thank you! Yes, I edited cmds.cfg to disable the rotate table cell text shortcut. I haven't been able to think of a better sequence, but it's not like I use it often enough to worry about a shortcut. The table row format command, though, I use

Re: [Framers] News about the FrameMaker history

2019-08-22 Thread Shmuel
You can always edit cmds.cfg and change the KeySequence to something else. It's located at: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker2015\fminit\configui depending on your FM version. For example, this adds Esc b,b for the Back command: > -- Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer

Re: [Framers] News about the FrameMaker history

2019-08-22 Thread Lin Sims
Yep. I replaced all the < with [ and I can use my table format shortcut again. Yay! Thanks for the tip. On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 3:49 AM Klaus Daube wrote: > On 21 Aug 2019 at 8:22, Lin Sims wrote: > > > Wait. If I take OUT the command for rotating text from cmds.cfg, does > that > > mean I'd

Re: [Framers] News about the FrameMaker history

2019-08-22 Thread Klaus Daube
On 21 Aug 2019 at 8:22, Lin Sims wrote: > Wait. If I take OUT the command for rotating text from cmds.cfg, does that > mean I'd get my add rows/columns back? I must investigate! Yes, Lin, that should do the trick: The commands are not copied to the user area, hence you must modify their

Re: [Framers] News about the FrameMaker history

2019-08-21 Thread Lin Sims
Wait. If I take OUT the command for rotating text from cmds.cfg, does that mean I'd get my add rows/columns back? I must investigate! On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 8:21 AM Lin Sims wrote: > Ugh. I'd rather not have a shortcut for rotating the cell contents, since > that's something I do very rarely.

Re: [Framers] News about the FrameMaker history

2019-08-21 Thread Lin Sims
Ugh. I'd rather not have a shortcut for rotating the cell contents, since that's something I do very rarely. Adding rows or columns, however, is a daily thing. On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 4:54 AM Klaus Daube wrote: > On 19 Aug 2019 at 16:53, Lin Sims wrote: > > > Recently the Row Format: Esc+tr,

Re: [Framers] News about the FrameMaker history

2019-08-21 Thread Klaus Daube
On 19 Aug 2019 at 16:53, Lin Sims wrote: > Recently the Row Format: Esc+tr, broke; I doubt if the update this week will > have it fixed since I just reported it, but I have high hopes for the next > one. The problem is this: As soon as a longer sequence is defined, the shorter does not work

Re: [Framers] News about the FrameMaker history

2019-08-19 Thread Doug
It was precisely for this purpose that I bought a keyboard with 10 programmable hotkeys. I use them for FrameMaker shortcuts, and it has saved me a world of bother. Doug On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 4:53 PM Lin Sims wrote: > You can still use the keyboard shortcuts, and the new features often

Re: [Framers] News about the FrameMaker history

2019-08-19 Thread Lin Sims
You can still use the keyboard shortcuts, and the new features often have both Windows and Esc shortcuts added. Of course, occasionally they'll add a new feature and break a shortcut, but they're fairly responsive to bug reports. Recently the Row Format: Esc+tr, broke; I doubt if the update this

Re: [Framers] News about the FrameMaker history

2019-08-19 Thread Alan Litchfield
I know right? That was the implied point. Alan -- Dr Alan Litchfield AlphaByte PO Box 1941 Auckland, New Zealand 1140 On 20/08/19 08:11, Robert Lauriston wrote: How do you figure that? FrameMaker has never caught on among graphic designers. They used Pagemaker, then Quark, then (and now)

Re: [Framers] News about the FrameMaker history

2019-08-19 Thread Alan Litchfield
I would add too, that I still think that Adobe should have persisted with Frame 5.5 on Linux, and it was an unfortunate mistake to allow the stoush with Apple (if that was what it is was) close the door on having FM on the Mac. The examples of user enhancements described, the key commands,

Re: [Framers] News about the FrameMaker history

2019-08-19 Thread Robert Lauriston
How do you figure that? FrameMaker has never caught on among graphic designers. They used Pagemaker, then Quark, then (and now) InDesign. On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 11:51 AM Alan Litchfield wrote: > > If it were not that FM had diverged from the familiar and functional > publishing system to a

Re: [Framers] News about the FrameMaker history

2019-08-19 Thread Alan Litchfield
Thank you for posting the link. FM is certainly one of the unsung heroes in computing history. Even now, publishing systems are not considered important, until they break. If it were not that FM had diverged from the familiar and functional publishing system to a graphic designer tool, I

Re: [Framers] News about the FrameMaker history

2019-08-19 Thread Peter Gold
Thanks, Klaus: I first encountered FrameMaker3 on a Mac computer when I started as a technical writer at Sybase in 1989, a week after the Loma Prieta earthquake that flattened the Cypress highway ramp which exited a few blocks from the company's Emeryville, CA, headquarters. The quake hit when I

Re: [Framers] News about the FrameMaker history

2019-08-19 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Klaus, thanks so much for sharing this. Do you believe that the PDF could be put on the Frameusers.com Web site without violating any copyright? I don't see the name of the publication in which it appeared anywhere in the PDF. And when you have completed your Web page about the history of FM,

Re: [Framers] News about the FrameMaker history

2019-08-19 Thread TW Smith
Thank you! On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 8:38 AM Böðvar Björgvinsson wrote: > Thanks. Great to have this. > > Bodvar Bjorgvinsson > > > > > > > mán., 19. ágú. 2019 kl. 12:18 skrifaði Lin Sims : > > > Very cool. Please tell him thank you, from a FrameMaker fan. > > > > On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 6:25 AM

Re: [Framers] News about the FrameMaker history

2019-08-19 Thread Böðvar Björgvinsson
Thanks. Great to have this. Bodvar Bjorgvinsson mán., 19. ágú. 2019 kl. 12:18 skrifaði Lin Sims : > Very cool. Please tell him thank you, from a FrameMaker fan. > > On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 6:25 AM Klaus Daube wrote: > > > Friends of FrameMaker, > > > > Today I got a mail from David

Re: [Framers] News about the FrameMaker history

2019-08-19 Thread Lin Sims
Very cool. Please tell him thank you, from a FrameMaker fan. On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 6:25 AM Klaus Daube wrote: > Friends of FrameMaker, > > Today I got a mail from David Hemmendinger (Associate Editor-in-chief, > IEEE Annals of > the History of Computing) with two corrections for my web-page