Karen West wrote: > > How are you formatting the italic text? Are you clicking > the I button > > or pressing ctrl-I? > > Yes again. > > > If so, I believe that FrameMaker drops that formatting when > saving as > > xml. If you are using formats from the character catalog it should > > save the formatting. > > Thanks Mike, I've just tried it and it works now using the > character catalog. Excellent, that's rather stupid though, > don't you think?
Well, no. In fact, a recent poll of FrameUsers readers found that 35 out of 37 thought it was rather stupid to apply ad hoc formatting as you did instead of using defined character tags: > Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 1:08 PM > To: framers at lists.FrameUsers.com > Subject: POLL RESULTS: Which method do you use to apply bold > and italics? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: John Wilcox > > Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 3:30 PM > > > This came up as a possible style standards issue here. > ... > > A. Click the B and I buttons, or press Ctrl+B and Ctrl+I. > > B. Select Bold and Emphasis from the Character Catalog. > > Of the 37 responses I got, 35 chose B or a variation thereof. > > Most of those 35 were so adamant that I doubt they will be > surprised at the results, but I for one had no idea the vote > would be so lop-sided. > > All of the variations mentioned involved creating and using > use-specific char tags, such as BookTitle, VariableElement, NewTerm. If you have unstructured, randomly-formatted docs that don't use paragraph and character tags consistently, then what's the point in converting them to XML anyway? Richard ------ Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 ------ rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 ------
