I copy it from the screen into FM as raw text with Paste Special > Text with a para at the end of each line. If it has too many tabs, you can do a find-and-replace to clean them out or convert to multiple spaces. Then convert it to a single column table, one line per cell. The para tag for each cell is a 6 or 7 point monospace font, such as Courier.
Art On Nov 14, 2007 4:24 PM, Carol Wade <carol_r_wade at hotmail.com> wrote: > > I'm wondering how other FrameMaker users handle formatting XML and other > computer code samples in text. I have tried a couple of approaches and am not > satisfied with either. > > One approach I've taken is to create a paragraph tag that contains regularly > spaced tabs. This requires that I reformat the code when imported into Frame, > which can be labor-intensive. > > The other approach I've taken is to take screen shots of the code. Yuck! (for > obvious reasons). > > I hope I'm missing something here. > > Thanks for your advice! > > - Carol -- Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358