RE: Framemaker 11 crashes when comparing books

2015-02-11 Thread john . x . posada
I know...it's just a little more complicated on this end. John X Posada AML Syst Ops Supt Data Analyst | US FCC RC Systems Control Analytics | HSBC North America Holdings Inc 330 Madison Ave., NY NY

RE: Conditional text by paragraph tag?

2015-02-11 Thread David Artman
0) Save all files in book. 1) Get condition onto your Clipboard (right-click text with the condition, Copy Special Conditional Text Format). 2) Find: Paragraph Style [name of paragraph]. 3) Replace: By Pasting. 4) Find and Change for one or two, then fire Replace All when you see that it's going

Conditional text by paragraph tag?

2015-02-11 Thread Tim Pann
Hello, In Frame 9, is it possible for me to set all text of a given paragraph tag to a particular conditional text format in a single step? For example, I want to assign the condition Lisa Info to all paragraph tags b1 Body1 and bu1 Bullet1, but not to paragraph tag followUp, without going

RE: Conditional text by paragraph tag?

2015-02-11 Thread Rebecca Officer
This is the way to go, but only if you want “Lisa Info” to be the only conditional text format on the target paragraphs. If some of them are already tagged with other conditional text formats, this procedure removes that other tagging. Cheers Rebecca From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

Re: Conditional text by paragraph tag?

2015-02-11 Thread Dave Reynolds
I work on our company network. At the end of each day, I delete any unwanted files from the folder(s) I've been working in, and copy the folders for that manual to my local drive. I know it relies on my memory, but I've done it for so long now, it's become a habit. Dave On 12/02/2015 11:10

Re: Conditional text by paragraph tag?

2015-02-11 Thread Scott Prentice
I think that the idea of the FM backup files is to provide *something* in case the current file gets corrupted in some way. It's better to lose the last edits to a file than to have the current (possibly corrupt) file overwrite what was a good file. Perhaps instead of calling these

Re: Conditional text by paragraph tag?

2015-02-11 Thread Robert Lauriston
When trying a potentially destructive kludge, I save, close, and make a .zip of the project directory first. On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Fred Ridder docu...@hotmail.com wrote: No, in fact I *don't* let FrameMaker generate .backup.fm files because they aren't really backups. They are just

Re: Conditional text by paragraph tag?

2015-02-11 Thread Robert Lauriston
The idea of FrameMaker's backup files is similar to the idea of its network locking: both seemed like a good idea in the 80s. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com.

RE: Conditional text by paragraph tag?

2015-02-11 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
Scott Prentice said: If you want real backups, you need to set up a mechanism for copying the current files elsewhere for safe keeping. Indeed! (As I recall, we discussed this recently) ... my approach is an Archive folder below the book folder to which I copy everything before each edit

RE: Conditional text by paragraph tag?

2015-02-11 Thread Fred Ridder
David Artman wrote: 5) Generate output and peruse. DO NOT save FM files yet! If it boked a couple of times, fix thm; if it borked a ton; rollback to your backup.fm files (you DO automatically save backup.fm files every save, rght? ;) ) No, in fact I *don't* let FrameMaker generate