Lester C. Smalley wrote: > Absolutely - but you can turn them off now via the View Menu > - just uncheck the Quick Access Bar. Of course, you can turn > it back on and there's still the keyboard shortcuts and the > Format > Style menu (sigh) > > On Wednesday, November 01, 2006 01:02 PM, Rene Stephenson wrote: > > | Maybe FM should remove the B and I and U buttons from the > interface, > | too, since we don't need to encourage use of such Spawn. Ha, ha! > |
You can eliminate those buttons, the Format > Style menu, the keyboard shortcuts -- indeed, all the different ways of changing formatting except the Designers and the pgf and char catalogs. You just have to spend some time customizing the interface. See the Customizing FrameMaker manual (in the OnlineManuals subdirectory of your FM installation) for instructions. I started with the FM customizations from Microtype.com (highly recommended) and then made further changes to remove ad hoc formatting controls. Once you have custom MyToolbar.ini and MyCustomUI.cfg files (either from Microtype or by creating your own and installing them via maker.ini), the additional toolbar changes are pretty simple: -- Comment out (precede with a semicolon) all instances of the formatting buttons, e.g.: ;6=ICON , ToolBar1Plain , StylePlain ;7=ICON , ToolBar1Bold , StyleBold ;8=ICON , ToolBar1Italic , StyleItalic ;9=ICON , ToolBar1Underline , StyleUnderline ;10=ICON , ToolBar1IncFont , IncFontSize ;11=ICON , ToolBar1DecFont , DecFontSize ;12=SEPERATOR, 5 -- Disable the alignment, spacing, font, and size controls: AlignmentPopup=Off SpacingPopup=Off FontChoice=Off SizePopup=Off AlignWell=Off ; already off in Shlomo's kit SpacingWell=Off ; already off in Shlomo's kit The MyCustomUI.cfg changes are more extensive, mainly to deal with a plethora of formatting keyboard shortcuts. I mapped all the char formatting shortcuts (such as Ctrl+B) to the CharacterCatalog command, which opens the char catalog. The pgf formatting shortcuts are mapped to the ParagraphCatalog command. I also removed a number of menu items. If anyone's interested, email me and I'll send a text file containing the changes. Richard ------ Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 ------ rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 ------
