2006-08-03-04T17:45Z Murray -
I just saw Frank Stearns' posting as I was finishing my missive, below. I agree with Frank's projection about what I refer to as "LAN interference," "network collisions," and "network congestion." I've seen FrameMaker do some mighty-odd things here that, apparently, our colleagues don't experience. At least, they don't discuss such intermittent, oddball behaviors on this list. Believe you me: "I feel your pain." I recently relearned that FrameMaker sometimes stacks markers one on top of the other. The only thing visible is one marker, but there might be more than one marker at the same place. I have found six markers stacked atop one another on the reference page named "BookHTML." I think you might find an "Index" marker that contains an entry such as " 16" or " 18" or " 24" - without the quotation marks. Notice that each number is preceded by at least one blank ( " " ). I believe that in such a situation, FrameMaker detects the blank or blanks, recognizes it or them as "symbols," and quite happily sorts the contents to appear as you have reported them. Try this. 1. By whatever means, go to the marker that you believe is the offender. The marker appears highlighted. Remember that the marker might be very hard to see. It might be at the very end of a bit of text that is next to a text frame or a line in a table. 2. If necessary or desired, zoom in on the file until you can see the marker that is highlighted. The marker becomes more-readily visible. 3. Press the left arrow key ( <- ) once. The insertion point moves to the left. If the marker is at the right side of a letter, the point moves to the left side of the letter. 4. Press the right arrow key ( -> ) once. The insertion point moves into an "invisible" place between the right side of the letter and the left side of the marker. The insertion point remains visible. 5. Press the spacebar once, twice, or thrice. (Hey, you can "go crazy" here because you can't really hurt anything, and hitting the spacebar is better than biting the edge of your work surface.) One or more blanks appear to the left of the marker. 6. Press the right arrow key ( -> ) _only_once_, and press the spacebar _only_once_. 7. If this movement produces only one or more blanks - and nothing else - you're dealing with only one marker. 8. If this movement produces a blank _and_ another marker begins to appear, repeat steps six and seven until no more markers appear. 9. If FrameMaker's "Marker" dialog box is not displayed, display it. Press Alt+S+M. The "Marker" dialog box appears. 10. Highlight each marker one-at-a-time and examine both its type (such as "Index" or "TopicAlias" or "Author" in the title bar) and its contents. Again, I think you might find an "Index" marker that contains an entry such as " 16" or " 18" or " 24" - without the quotation marks. Notice that each number is preceded by at least one blank ( " " ). I believe that in such a situation, FrameMaker detects the blank or blanks, recognizes it or them as "symbols," and quite happily sorts the contents to appear as you have reported them. Good luck! Dave Stamm Publications Specialist, Senior Staff General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc. Command Systems 1700 Magnavox Way, Suite 200 Fort Wayne, Indiana 46804-1552 US tel: 260-434-9620 fax: 260.434.9601 dave.stamm at gdc4s.com http://www.gdc4s.com/ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:framers-bounces+dave.stamm=gdc4s.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Murray Moore Sent: 2006-08-01-Tuesday 09:55 To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Phantom index entries FM 6.0p405 XP Pro Version 2002 Service Pack 2 In my book's index, page numbers are appearing under the Symbols heading; 16, 18, 24, etc. I traced each of these numbers to its source index marker, e.g. one of the page numbers under the Symbols heading, 34, is the A Year Ago This Month button heading on page 34. On page 34 I deleted and recreated the index marker. But when I updated the book and the index, 34 continues to display under Symbols. On page 34 I deleted the index marker. I updated the book and the index. Not only does 16 continue to display under Symbols, but A Year Ago This Month 34 continues to display under the A heading. Our IT Dept. head suggested I might have exceeded the maximum size for a FM file. I do not think so because I have produced thicker books. /\/\ Murray Moore Documentation Department CSDC Systems Inc. Mississauga, Ontario _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as Dave.Stamm at gdc4s.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/dave.stamm%40gdc4s.c om Send administrative questions to lisa at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
