Add it as a feature request? I suspect, though, that the only way you can get a TOC that is in two flows separated by language at the moment is to use my original suggestion.
I could post the question to the Adobe FrameMaker forum if you want. Lots of people there who know Frame much better than I do. On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 3:02 AM Yves Barbion <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > > Creating separate paragraph tags for French and Dutch is not really an > option, because we'd have to retag the whole text (500 + pages). Richard > Mitchell suggested to use conditional text for the French and Dutch text. I > haven't tried this, but that might work. > > Anyway, Adobe should add this feature: simply allow the user to create a > ToC with multiple text flows, in which the generated ToC appears in the > corresponding text flows, so the headings from flow A in appears in flow A > in the ToC, headings from flow B in flow B etc. > > > Cheers > > Yves > > On Mon, 20 May 2019 at 17:47, Lin Sims <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hey Craig, > > > > Assuming I understood this correctly, I don't think this is possible. As > > far as I know, you can only have one TOC reference page, and there's no > way > > to specify which text flow it goes into. Be interesting to find out if > I'm > > wrong on that, though, as I can see it being useful. > > > > Yves, let us know what you try out and how it works, would you please? > > > > On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 3:36 PM Craig Ede <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Yves, > > > > > > I was thinking of something similar to what Lin describes, but I don't > > > have time to check it and didn't want to lead you down a wrong path. > > > However, once you create the TOC file as an autogenerated file, it > might > > be > > > possible to create the two text flows in that file, one for each > > language. > > > The page flows and formatting tags on the reference page for the TOC > > would > > > have to be divided as well with the correct tags to use for formatting > on > > > the appropriate side. All the flow names have to be named the same for > > each > > > of the 'views' (that is, on both the TOC reference and master pages). I > > > don't know for sure, but it just might work, and that would let you > just > > > generate the file, no muss, no fuss. > > > > > > Good luck. > > > > > > Craig > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > From: Framers <framers-bounces+craigede= > [email protected] > > > > > > on behalf of Lin Sims <[email protected]> > > > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2019 12:14 PM > > > To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. > > > Subject: Re: [Framers] Create a separate ToC for each text flow? > > > > > > Could you use two different paragraph tags for each heading level, one > > for > > > Dutch and one for French? Perhaps distinguished by -D and -Fr. Then you > > > could generate separate TOCs easily enough from the same file, but off > > the > > > top of my head I can't figure out how to combine the two different TOCs > > > into the same generated file. > > > > > > Oh! Could you create a second file that has two separate text frames as > > > parallel columns, then use insets to have the French TOC in one column > > and > > > the Dutch in the other? Then all you'd have to do is exclude the > > generated > > > files from the doc when creating your output ... > > > > > > (NB: I have not tested this. No idea if it would work. But it sounds > > > possible.) > > > > > > On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 8:14 AM Yves Barbion <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Framers > > > > > > > > I've got this nice challenge: > > > > > > > > I've got a big FrameMaker book in which each chapter has 2 separate > > text > > > > flows: one for Dutch text and one for French. The Dutch and French > text > > > > appears side by side on each page. > > > > > > > > I want to create a table of contents which has the same: a Dutch text > > > flow > > > > on the left and a French text flow on the right. > > > > > > > > I don't see a "standard" way of doing this in Fm. When I generate a > > ToC, > > > I > > > > get the Dutch and French text mixed together in a single flow: > > > > > > > > Dutch heading.... page 1 > > > > French heading.... page 1 > > > > Dutch heading.... page 2 > > > > French heading.... page 2 > > > > > > > > etc. > > > > > > > > My current workaround is kinda complicated: > > > > > > > > 1. Create 3 versions of the book, one bilingual (master) version, > a > > > > French version and a Dutch version. > > > > 2. Remove all French text from the Dutch book and vice versa. > > > > 3. Generate a ToC in the French version. > > > > 4. Generate a ToC in the Dutch version. > > > > 5. In the bilingual version, import the Dutch ToC in the Dutch > text > > > flow > > > > of the "fake ToC" and import the French ToC in the French text > flow. > > > > > > > > It works, but it's too complicated and will take too much time when > > > updates > > > > occur. > > > > > > > > Any better ideas? Can an ExtendScript do this? > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > Yves Barbion > > > > www.flowtime.be<http://www.flowtime.be> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > > > > > > > Send messages to [email protected] > > > > 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 [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Lin Sims > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > > > > > Send messages to [email protected] > > > 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 [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > > > > > Send messages to [email protected] > > > 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 [email protected] > > > > > > > > > -- > > Lin Sims > > _______________________________________________ > > > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > > > Send messages to [email protected] > > 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 [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to [email protected] > 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 [email protected] > -- Lin Sims _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to [email protected] 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 [email protected]
