-----Original Message----- From: Diane Gaskill [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:27 PM To: Rick Quatro Cc: framers Subject: RE: One paragraph style -> Many Elements
Hi Rick, I'm converting a bunch of word docs to SFM. I'm importing them into UFM and then using tablecleaner to clean up the tables, but the table title in word is a text string above the table and not part of the table. It takes practically forever to manually cut and paste the strings into the title fields in the FM tables. Could a FS automate that? I also noticed that many paragraphs that come in from Word don't have paratag names at all in FM. If they were just the wrong tag names, it would be a no-brainer to just rename them, but there is nothing in the name field of the para designer when I select the para in FM. Do you know what is going on and why I can do to make the names show up? Rename the tags in word, to a legitimate FM tag maybe? Thanks, Diane ========== -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Rick Quatro Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 5:07 PM To: 'Eric Geissinger'; [email protected] Subject: RE: One paragraph style -> Many Elements Hi Eric, You can't do this with the conversion table method. I would pre-process the file and retag you heading_2 paragraphs, based on their content. Then you can modify your conversion table to use the renamed heading_2 tags. Follow these basic steps: 1) Click in one of the heading_2 paragraphs. 2) Use the Paragraph Designer to create a new format for this particular heading_2 paragraph. 3) With your cursor in the newly tagged paragraph, choose Edit > Copy Special > Paragraph Format. 4) Choose Edit > Find/Change. Type in the unique string that you want to search on; for example FUNCTION NAME. In the Change popup, choose By Pasting. 5) Click Find and Change a few instances. If you are sure that your Find string is unique and will only find text in heading_2 paragraphs, click Change All. Repeat with the other 2 heading_2 paragraphs. If you want to automate this with FrameScript, please send me a sample document and contact me offlist. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments. Thank you very much. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-659-8267 [email protected] *** Frame Automation blog at http://frameautomation.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Geissinger Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 1:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: One paragraph style -> Many Elements I'm working on an unstructured Frame book, getting it structured via the Conversion Table method (Frame 9) using a custom EDD. I have a hideously embarrassingly easy question to ask. At least I think so? What is the best way to map a single paragraph style (for example, heading_2) to differently named containers depending on the content of the paragraph style (text). For example: heading_2 FUNCTION NAME [...] heading_2 Prototype [...] heading_2 Return Value [...] Where above is paragraph style name followed by text associated with the paragraph style, and [...] is whatever following the headings. It would be delicious to be able to map: heading_2 to element FUNCTION_Name iff text of heading_2 = "FUNCTION NAME" heading_2 to element Proto iff text of heading_2="Prototype" etc. To be avoided is changing all the heading_2's by hand to new names to match their element. Is there a way to do this that's, like, easy? I'd be open to an automated way of changing the paragraph style names to match their text, actually, now that I think about it... are there Frame utilities allowing such a thing? Any and all help appreciated, else I might just lose my hair. Via pulling. And that's bad. ================ EzG ================ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [email protected]. Send list messages to [email protected]. To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/rick%40rickquatro.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [email protected]. Send list messages to [email protected]. To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/dgcaller%40earthlink.net Send administrative questions to [email protected]. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [email protected]. Send list messages to [email protected]. To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
