Thank you very much, Scott! I appreciate your feedback. When I was looking for
an image properties dialog, I came across the Anchored Frame dialog and you're
right, it does set the alignment attribute too.
I will report the bug to Adobe because I'd prefer to not have to set that for
each image!
Heather
Scott Prentice <sp10 at leximation.com> , 6/11/2013 3:34 PM:
Hi Heather...
I believe that FM's default DITA support doesn't respond to
editing the image attributes directly (might work with some of them).
Select the anchored frame and choose Special > Anchored Frame, then
select the desired alignment. This will set the frame alignment and
*should* set the alignment attribute as well. There are a number of other
properties/attributes that work this way as well. In general, it's set up
to use the "GUI" property setting options rather than setting things via
attributes.
You should be able set the default value in the EDD and the r/w
rules, and it should honor that when inserting the image. If it doesn't,
that's definitely a bug.
BTW .. DITA-FMx does these things properly.? :o
Cheers,
...scott
On 6/11/13 12:19 PM, Heather Thomas wrote:
Thank you, Nadine and Scott, for your replies.
Nadine: I am using FM 11 (sorry I didn't specify in my first
post). Yes, I want to change the default alignment of images. I did
change the default setting in the EDD and then import the element
definitions into my template. I know that the EDD was imported
because when I set choices vs. string, I could see the choices in the
Attributes pod. What I'm asking is why FrameMaker is ignoring the
default of left that I set and leaving it as <no value>, but instead
is making it center aligned when I save. What's especially mysterious
is that it actually says at the bottom of the Attributes pod
"align Type: Optional Choice Default: left" but doesn't use that
default value.
Scott: Thanks for your suggestion to "use the default image
properties dialog. Don't try setting the element attribute." I
happily excused your unexpected brevity because you sent your message
from your phone. :) Perhaps sometime when you are at your computer,
could you please elaborate on this? I can't find the dialog you
mentioned, and if this is actually a bug that I can't set the element
attribute using my EDD, then I would like to report it. I have read
your response on the following Adobe forum post:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3681019. Like the original poster
there, the Anchored Frame dialog works properly for me. Manually
setting the attribute to left does what I would expect as well. I
have also ensured that I have the following in my rules:
attribute "align" {
??? is fm attribute "align";
??? is fm property alignment;
??? value "left" is fm property value align left; Like I said before,
it's not critical or anything, but it would be nice if we could set
the default alignment in the EDD and have FM obey it.
Thanks again!
Heather
PS - Please note that there is a delay of at least 24 hours
from the time I post to the time my message appears on the list.
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