IXgen is a very useful plugin for marker-intensive documents. I used it years ago and recommended it to several of my clients. My only complaint is that it takes the liberty of balancing square brackets when it puts the text back into the markers. This was a fatal problem for one of my clients that was trying to use IXgen with TimeSavers markers which sometimes use unbalanced open square brackets in its marker syntax (essentially, Postscript code). In my view, IXgen shouldn't make any changes to the marker text that you don't explicitly specify. But this is certainly an edge case, so if you are not using TimeSavers markers, this won't be a concern for you.
Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. r...@frameexpert.com 585-366-4017 -----Original Message----- From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+rick=rickquatro....@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Frank Stearns Sent: Monday, March 20, 2017 12:14 AM To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. Subject: Re: [Framers] Font Size in Index Marker Pod (FRMAKER-2451) On Sun, 19 Mar 2017, Rick Quatro wrote: > The problem here is simply that the text size in the marker window is > too small. It would be nice to be able to configure the size and > possibly the font in windows like these where the user has to > type/edit text. On marker-intensive documents, I would probably choose > a larger, mono-spaced font for the marker window. snips > Hi > > In the last days there was some discussion about them index marker > text window. Another idea would be to use IXgen and bypass the limits (and sometimes miseries) of the marker window entirely. Most marker display and edit entities generated by IXgen rely on FrameMaker documents that we provide as templates. And, because the IXgen templates are plain old FM documents, you can modify those templates to use whatever font size and styles you'd like. For more information about IXgen please visit our site (in the sig block below). Frank Stearns Associates | makers of IXgen(tm) for FrameMaker(r) *** IXGEN 7-10 for FrameMaker 10-15 HERE! *** fra...@fsatools.com 1-435-275-8981 www.fsatools.com _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
