Well, that's a serious bummer, but I knew it was a long shot. . . GRR. . .
Tammy Van Boening Tammy dot vanboening at spectrumwritingllc dot com www.spectrumwritingllc.com -----Original Message----- From: Framers <framers-bounces+tammyvb=spectrumwritingllc....@lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of John Sgammato Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 2:49 PM To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Framers] weird bug - Variable at start of paragraph sometimes vanishes Thanks Tammy, That didn't work. There's a lot going on in this doc - I think it will be faster to just push through the 700pp and fix it manually rather than waste a lot of time on a fix that may not exist. On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 3:25 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi John, > > Weird indeed, but what is even weirder is that I encountered this > problem myself a couple of months ago when I was using ePub to convert > my FM source to HTML5. It was one flippin' variable out of many that I > had in the source files and it also involved conditional text. I know > this is really, really pulling at straws, but a couple of plug-ins > that I was using and therefore, affecting the Framemaker FDK, appeared > to be the issue. (It was a head-banging, feet-stomping, gut-wailing > investigation), but this was what appeared to work: > > The solution is to open each FM document that is generating with > missing variables and do the following: > - From the 'Show/Hide Conditional Text' tab, select the 'Show All' > radio button (make sure to have the show condition indicators > selected) and then select 'Apply'. > - confirm that the conditional text settings are as expected and where > there are problems fix. > - From the 'Show/Hide Conditional Text' tab, select the 'Show As Per > Condition" radio button (make sure to have the show condition > indicators deselected), set the conditions accordingly, and then > select 'Apply'. Do this for both conditons. > - Save the FrameMaker file. > > All my FrameMaker files were stable after that. > > And short of assuming that I somehow had pleased the previously > pissed-off FrameMaker gods, I have no other explanation as to why this > worked (I had my rationale for it at the time), but it did. > > I feel your pain. > > TVB > > > Tammy Van Boening > Tammy dot vanboening at spectrumwritingllc dot com > www.spectrumwritingllc.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Framers > <framers-bounces+tammyvb=spectrumwritingllc....@lists.frameusers.com> > On Behalf Of John Sgammato > Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 12:16 PM > To: Framers List <[email protected]> > Subject: [Framers] weird bug - Variable at start of paragraph > sometimes vanishes > > I've never seen this before; it looks like a bug. > FM2015, unstructured. > I have a big book with many variables and some conditions. In many > (but not > all) cases, a variable that starts a paragraph is present but invisible. > Specifically, > *Note: AGM only.* > AGM is the variable. In some places I see *Note AGM only.* and in many > places I see *Note only.* The latter still have the variable marker > in place and selectable, and when I select it, the invisible marker is > still assigned to the variable with the value AGM. > If I replace the variable, then it appears and it seems to stay, but I > don't know why it vanished in the first place, how to reproduce it, or > how to make it never happen again. > A clue: The doc originally had many many AGM only notes as text. Then > we started rebranding the product while keeping our own name as well, > publishing "blue" and "orange" versions of the doc. For the orange > version, the variable = AGM, and for the blue doc it's IVGM. To set > the variable throughout the doc, I replaced the text AGM with the > variable, then copied the variable and did a Find/Replace By Pasting (not a text Find/Replace). > That got the variable into place everywhere. I am not sure that's a > factor, because I think there are too many notes that still show the > variable to account for them all having been manual operations (and > thus the bu came from the automated F/R step). > Has anyone seen this? > Is there any solution other than manually replacing each invisible > variable? > > -- > > [image: logo] > *John Sgammato* *Documentation Architect* m 508.927.2083 | > [email protected] | actifio.com > <http://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/399246/> > <http://twitter.com/actifio > > > <http://www.youtube.com/c/Actifio_Official> > < > http://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Actifio-EI_IE625803.11,18 > .htm > > > *Access your enterprise data as a service, instantly anywhere.* > _______________________________________________ > > 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] > -- [image: logo] *John Sgammato* *Documentation Architect* m 508.927.2083 | [email protected] | actifio.com <http://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/399246/> <http://twitter.com/actifio> <http://www.youtube.com/c/Actifio_Official> <http://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Actifio-EI_IE625803.11,18.htm> *Access your enterprise data as a service, instantly anywhere.* _______________________________________________ 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]
