FM10's Save As > Text Only doesn't do any indenting, so parts of the resulting file are harder to read than users are used to.
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Lizak, Samantha <samantha_lizak at mentor.com> wrote: > Never needed the MIF2GO and Word aspects; I'm a bit confused as to why you > add them in. What particular problem are you seeing when applying a > fixed-width layout template and then saving in the correct text format? ?I > notice that Windows FM8 only offers 1 .txt choice instead of the 3 I recall > from Unix; is the issue that the Windows form doesn't force line ends? > > -Sam. > > -----Original Message----- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at > lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston > Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 11:10 AM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Re: single-sourcing PDF and "text with layout"? > > Thanks, that's pretty much what I was figuring to do to polish the > MIF2GO > Word > text with layout option. > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Lizak, Samantha > <samantha_lizak at mentor.com> wrote: >> Back when we were still doing an ASCII version of the Release Notes, I >> developed a template that used the same paragraph tags but had different >> font (a fixed width) with headings in all upper case, bullets replaced with >> o, -, and + for the three possible levels, and a different page layout to >> force things into a certain line wrap. (There were probably a few other >> tweaks as well; I seem to recall that forcing the indent was giving me >> headaches. ?May have used tabs with an awk script to convert tabs to spaces.) >> >> To produce the ASCII form, I'd apply the other template, save as Unix-based >> text (the product still does not have a Windows version), and add a few last >> touches such as underlines under the H1s, and possibly adjusting >> indentation. (It has been four or five years, and this was all in FM 6 for >> Unix so may not be needed now.) >> >> Hope this gives you at least a small leg up on the problem- >> >> Sam. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at >> lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston >> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:45 PM >> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com >> Subject: single-sourcing PDF and "text with layout"? >> >> I've inherited a couple of docs in FrameMaker that have for some years >> been delivered in both PDF and plain text and am obliged to continue >> doing that. >> >> As far as I can see from the source, working directories, and so on, >> the PDF was generated from FrameMaker, and the text version was >> maintained by making the same changes twice. >> >> Any suggestions on single-sourcing the text output? People are used to >> the text being pretty readable, with headings in caps, indents using >> leading spaces, bullets using "o," and so on, so FM's native save as >> text is not acceptable. >> >> Best solution I've found so far is MIF2Go > RTF > Word > Save As > >> Text with Layout (*.ans). That's kludgy but close enough that I could >> probably make it work by tweaking the FM template and/or MIF2Go >> options and maybe doing some post-processing with a script. >> >> Acrobat's save as Accessible Text also seems promising but not as >> close to what I need as the above. >> >> Once upon a time there was FM2A for precisely this sort of task. >> What's the latest version of FM it will work with? >> http://www.fsatools.com/oldies.html >> >> Any other suggestions?
