Hi, Adam: Regarding the use of MIF and the spurious stuff in your MIF-to-FM conversions:
* You can open a MIF file for editing in FM by pressing Shift while clicking Open, and choosing Treat Each Line As a Paragraph. * The proper way to save a MIF file for conversion back to FM is to save it as Text Only with a MIF extension. HTH Regards, Peter __________________ Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Adam Schweitzer <adam.schweitzer at magellan.aero> wrote: > Thanks, Fred. > This does work - I was unaware of this feature. > > Adam > > ________________________________ > > From: Fred Ridder [mailto:docudoc at hotmail.com] > Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 12:50 PM > To: Adam Schweitzer; framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: RE: FM<-->MIF round-tripping > > > Adam Schweitzer wrote (in part): > >> Goal: >> In the process of converting several documents from paper to > framemaker >> documents, a large number of (rather randomly placed) "discretionary >> hyphen" characters were inserted (probably by the OCR software). I >> cannot seem to select these characters for use with the find/replace >> tool in Framemaker, so my idea was to convert to .mif, remove all >> instances of <Char DiscHyphen>, and then save back as FM. This appears >> to be successful, subject to my concerns above. > > Searching for the escape code "\-" (a backslash followed by a hyphen > without the quotes) didn't work? That's the standard code for typing a > discretionary hyphen in plain-text dialog boxes. See Appendix A of the > FrameMaker User Guide for a full list of dialog box codes for special > characters. > > -Fred Ridder