Using arrows keys to move graphics and drawings

[Robert.Werner]

Hi,
Framemaker 7.2p158
I don't seem to be able to use the arrow keys to maneuver images and
drawings around the page. I have a utility called KatMouse (v1.01)
installed, and a Logitech wireless keyboard.

Can this be resolved?

Thanks in advance,

Rob
Robert Werner
Technical Author 

AppSense(r)
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Daresbury
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UK 
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Trouble with Translated Text Insets

[Jan Tharp]

  Hello Framers,
  I am knee-deep in a large FrameMaker 7.1 glossary, with nearly 1,000 text 
insets for the definitions. I believe the original concept was to use them as a 
single-source for software screen documentation. Life was a lovely until we 
translated the text insets into another language, requiring me to send the 
files away and having them opened on another computer. When the files came back 
from the translator, the text insets (by Reference) seem to manufacture their 
own link path, and thus are unresolved. This effectively breaks the link to 
the text inset. 
  I tried saving the file as a MIF and editing the text inset path with a 
search/replace, but the file is just too big and locks up Notepad.
  Does anyone have any suggestions for either a) getting the text inset path to 
not change or b) globally update the path?
  I greatly appreciate your help.
   
  Jan Tharp
  Senior Technical Writer
  SoftBrands, Inc.


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Re: Trouble with Translated Text Insets

[Peter Gold]

At 6:08 AM -0700 4/19/06, Jan Tharp wrote:

  Hello Framers,
  I am knee-deep in a large FrameMaker 7.1 glossary, with nearly 
1,000 text insets for the definitions. I believe the original 
concept was to use them as a single-source for software screen 
documentation. Life was a lovely until we translated the text insets 
into another language, requiring me to send the files away and 
having them opened on another computer. When the files came back 
from the translator, the text insets (by Reference) seem to 
manufacture their own link path, and thus are unresolved. This 
effectively breaks the link to the text inset.
  I tried saving the file as a MIF and editing the text inset path 
with a search/replace, but the file is just too big and locks up 
Notepad.
  Does anyone have any suggestions for either a) getting the text 
inset path to not change or b) globally update the path?

  I greatly appreciate your help.


Hi, Jan:

You can open a MIF file in Word, edit, save as text.

AND, you can open a MIF file as text in FM by pressing and holding 
Shift (or maybe it's Ctrl) while clicking Open (or double-clicking) 
the .mif file in the Open File dialog box. Choose Each Line is a 
Paragraph. Use find/replace to do your work. Save the file As TEXT to 
a new name, with .mif extension.


This Shift/Ctrl technique interrupts FM's automatic conversion of the 
MIF file into a screen-ready FM file.


HTH


Regards,

Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices
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[ANN]: Front Runner Training - Montreal and Calgary training in June

[Veronica Kütt]

Hello,

Front Runner Training has confirmed  the following courses to take place in
Montreal and Calgary in June 2006.

Two day Authoring Structured FrameMaker documents course scheduled in
Calgary:

Tuesday June 6th  Wednesday June 7th

Cost per person: $690.00 plus GST

Registration and payment for this course is required by May 15th, 2006 to be
accepted into the course.

Purchase FrameMaker 7.2 from Front Runner and receive a 10% discount off the
cost of the training.

The training is scheduled to take place at the office of Educore, in
downtown Calgary. Please contact Front Runner Training directly to register
for the training and for directions to the training centre.  

Here is a link to our course outline from our website

 
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Two day Mastering WebWorks ePublisher Pro Basics course  scheduled in
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Cost per person: $990.00 plus GST

Registration and payment for this course is required by May 31st, 2006 to be
accepted into the course. 

Purchase WebWorks ePublisher Pro software from Front Runner and you will
receive a 10% discount to attend the training.

The training is scheduled to take place at  the offices of CRIM, in downtown
Montreal.  Please contact Front Runner Training directly to register for the
training and for directions to the training centre.  

Here is a link to our course outline from our website.

 
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ro_basi.html
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Printing Thumb Tabs

[donandjudy1]

Hi, folks:

With the help of several stalwart frameusers, I successfully created thumb
tabs along the edge of a version of my fixit book.
However, my inkjet printer won't print close enough to the edge for the tabs
to bleed. It will create the tabs with the text which can be viewed by
flipping through the book sideways, but they won't show when the book is
closed.

And I know that laser printers require even larger blank margins than
inkjets. So, perhaps this option shouldn't be offered to the on-line
customer without a warning. Or perhaps the tabs should be reformatted to
represent what can be realistically printed. Pity.

I have a vague recollection that, in the recent days when I was ferreting
out the tab formatting problem, someone wrote about the printing
difficulties of bleeding tabs, suggesting larger paper and cutting it
afterwards. But I can't find that e-mail. Furthermore, this doesn't seem
practical when one considers that most folks can only print on longer (14),
not wider paper.

Perhaps bleeding tabs can only be handled by professional printers and
therefore included only in a hard bound version, not a print at home PDF.
True or false? Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

~ Don Spencer
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RE: Printing Thumb Tabs

[Glenn Voyles]

Don,

Perhaps bleeding tabs can only be handled by professional printers and
therefore included only in a hard bound version, not a print at home
PDF.
True or false? Any suggestions?

Our department decided to keep the bleeding tabs even on the print at
home PDFs so we wouldn't have to maintain two versions of the doc and
there wouldn't be a reformatting issue if the doc did go to print
production. 

Glenn


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Re: FM XML FM Table Problem

[Lynne A. Price]

At 05:35 PM 4/18/2006, Lofthouse Marsha-PT1816 wrote:

I'm getting the following error - many of them - when I save a
structured FM file as xml and then try to open it in FM:

path; line 70
FrameMaker cannot insert the table cell (Entry) at the current position.
A cell must be in a table row.

The file validates as does the EDD.
...
When I look at the xml file saved from FM, I see what I want:
AnchorTable
Table xreftarget = blah
TCaptionMore blah blah/TCaption
THead...


Marsha,
  The problem is that you have not specified the number of columns in the 
table. If the number of columns is fixed, you can specify it with a r/w 
rule. Otherwise, specify it in an XML-only attribute of the Table element. 
If you use the name cols for the attribute, you won't need a r/w rule. 
Otherwise, use a rule such as:


attribute myattname is fm property columns;

--Lynne

Lynne A. Price
Text Structure Consulting, Inc.
Specializing in structured FrameMaker consulting, application development, 
and training

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Semi-OT: Thinking XML: Review of RFC 3470: Guidelines for the Use of XML [IBM developerWorks]

[Grant Hogarth]

Thinking XML: Review of RFC 3470: Guidelines for the Use of XML
Uche Ogbuji, IBM developerWorks

In this article the author surveys the IETF's take on XML best
practices. XML was designed specifically for use on the Internet ('the
Web' to be precise), and many Internet protocols use XML to represent
data and documents. XML has thus become important to all the major
standards organizations developing Internet technology, and not least
the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), an organization whose
technical papers drive most Internet protocols from e-mail to Web
communications, and beyond. In order to provide consistent quality of
XML used with such IETF technologies, the IETF developed a set of
guidelines, RFC 3470, entitled Guidelines for the Use of Extensible
Markup Language (XML) within IETF Protocols. This article expands upon
the valuable advice provided in RFC 3470. Ogbuji: Despite a few
quibbles, I think RFC 3470 is an excellent document.

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think36.html
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think36.html 
See also the RFC: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3470.txt
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3470.txt 

SOURCE:
XML.org Daily Newslink. Tuesday, 18 April 2006
Provided by OASIS http://www.oasis-open.org http://www.oasis-open.org/


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ANN: FrameMaker Seminars, SF Bay Area (June)

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San Carlos (SF Bay Area), California
-- Structured FrameMaker: Authoring, June 14
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-- FrameMaker Template Design, June 19-20
-- Single Sourcing with FrameMaker, June 21
-- FrameMaker-to-Acrobat Advanced Techniques, June 22-23

Group size is typically 5-8 students, encouraging active participation.
Early registration discount ends May 26; additional discounts for multiple 
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Using arrows keys to move graphics and drawings

[robert.wer...@appsense.com]

Hi,
Framemaker 7.2p158
I don't seem to be able to use the arrow keys to maneuver images and
drawings around the page. I have a utility called KatMouse (v1.01)
installed, and a Logitech wireless keyboard.

Can this be resolved?

Thanks in advance,

Rob
Robert Werner
Technical Author 

AppSense(r)
3200 Daresbury Park
Daresbury
Warrington
WA4 4BU
UK 
Email: robert.werner at appsense.com
Web: http://www.appsense.com 
Tel: +44 (0) 161 216 3200
Fax: +44 (0) 161 216 3232


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work-forces that are becoming more and more dependent on the Internet.
AppSense's expanding global network of Certified Solution Partners and 
ideal product portfolio is well positioned to help users tame the malware
menace. AppSense is probably one of the few companies that promises
Zero-day protection." Rick Justice, Chief Editor, InfoSecurity 
www.appsense.com/hotcompany2006
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Trouble with Translated Text Insets

[Jan Tharp]

  Hello Framers,
  I am knee-deep in a large FrameMaker 7.1 glossary, with nearly 1,000 text 
insets for the definitions. I believe the original concept was to use them as a 
single-source for software screen documentation. Life was a lovely until we 
translated the text insets into another language, requiring me to send the 
files away and having them opened on another computer. When the files came back 
from the translator, the text insets (by Reference) seem to manufacture their 
own link path, and thus are "unresolved." This effectively breaks the link to 
the text inset. 
  I tried saving the file as a MIF and editing the text inset path with a 
search/replace, but the file is just too big and locks up Notepad.
  Does anyone have any suggestions for either a) getting the text inset path to 
not change or b) globally update the path?
  I greatly appreciate your help.

  Jan Tharp
  Senior Technical Writer
  SoftBrands, Inc.


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Using arrows keys to move graphics and drawings SOLVED

[robert.wer...@appsense.com]

Thanks Berny

-Original Message-
From: Gagne, Bernard (Bolton) [mailto:bga...@husky.ca] 
Sent: 19 April 2006 14:35
To: Robert Werner
Subject: RE: Using arrows keys to move graphics and drawings

Hi Robert,
Press the ALT key along with the arrow keys to move objects in graphic
frames. 

Berny Gagn?
Sr. Technical Writer
Husky Injection Molding Systems
Bolton, Ontario, Canada 

-Original Message-
From: framers-bounces+bgagne=husky...@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+bgagne=husky.ca at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of
Robert.Werner at appsense.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 9:06 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Using arrows keys to move graphics and drawings

Hi,
Framemaker 7.2p158
I don't seem to be able to use the arrow keys to maneuver images and
drawings around the page. I have a utility called KatMouse (v1.01)
installed, and a Logitech wireless keyboard.

Can this be resolved?

Thanks in advance,

Rob
Robert Werner
Technical Author 

AppSense(r)
3200 Daresbury Park
Daresbury
Warrington
WA4 4BU
UK
Email: robert.werner at appsense.com
Web: http://www.appsense.com
Tel: +44 (0) 161 216 3200
Fax: +44 (0) 161 216 3232


AppSense - Winner of Hot Companies 2006 Award

"Malware is a growing menace especially with globalization and mobile
work-forces that are becoming more and more dependent on the Internet.
AppSense's expanding global network of Certified Solution Partners and ideal
product portfolio is well positioned to help users tame the malware menace.
AppSense is probably one of the few companies that promises Zero-day
protection." Rick Justice, Chief Editor, InfoSecurity
www.appsense.com/hotcompany2006

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Trouble with Translated Text Insets

[Peter Gold]

At 6:08 AM -0700 4/19/06, Jan Tharp wrote:
>   Hello Framers,
>   I am knee-deep in a large FrameMaker 7.1 glossary, with nearly 
>1,000 text insets for the definitions. I believe the original 
>concept was to use them as a single-source for software screen 
>documentation. Life was a lovely until we translated the text insets 
>into another language, requiring me to send the files away and 
>having them opened on another computer. When the files came back 
>from the translator, the text insets (by Reference) seem to 
>manufacture their own link path, and thus are "unresolved." This 
>effectively breaks the link to the text inset.
>   I tried saving the file as a MIF and editing the text inset path 
>with a search/replace, but the file is just too big and locks up 
>Notepad.
>   Does anyone have any suggestions for either a) getting the text 
>inset path to not change or b) globally update the path?
>   I greatly appreciate your help.

Hi, Jan:

You can open a MIF file in Word, edit, save as text.

AND, you can open a MIF file as text in FM by pressing and holding 
Shift (or maybe it's Ctrl) while clicking Open (or double-clicking) 
the .mif file in the Open File dialog box. Choose Each Line is a 
Paragraph. Use find/replace to do your work. Save the file As TEXT to 
a new name, with .mif extension.

This Shift/Ctrl technique interrupts FM's automatic conversion of the 
MIF file into a screen-ready FM file.

HTH


Regards,

Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices

[ANN]: Front Runner Training - Montreal and Calgary training in June

[Veronica Kütt]

Hello,

Front Runner Training has confirmed  the following courses to take place in
Montreal and Calgary in June 2006.

Two day Authoring Structured FrameMaker documents course scheduled in
Calgary:

Tuesday June 6th & Wednesday June 7th

Cost per person: $690.00 plus GST

Registration and payment for this course is required by May 15th, 2006 to be
accepted into the course.

Purchase FrameMaker 7.2 from Front Runner and receive a 10% discount off the
cost of the training.

The training is scheduled to take place at the office of Educore, in
downtown Calgary. Please contact Front Runner Training directly to register
for the training and for directions to the training centre.  

Here is a link to our course outline from our website



http://www.front-runner.com/training/outlines/adobe/adobe_fmaker_struct_auth
or.html



Two day Mastering WebWorks ePublisher Pro Basics course  scheduled in
Montreal:

Thursday June 15th & Friday June 16th, 2006

Cost per person: $990.00 plus GST

Registration and payment for this course is required by May 31st, 2006 to be
accepted into the course. 

Purchase WebWorks ePublisher Pro software from Front Runner and you will
receive a 10% discount to attend the training.

The training is scheduled to take place at  the offices of CRIM, in downtown
Montreal.  Please contact Front Runner Training directly to register for the
training and for directions to the training centre.  

Here is a link to our course outline from our website.



http://www.front-runner.com/training/outlines/quadralay/quadralay_ww_epub_pr
o_basi.html  

*Please note: Front Runner reserves the right to cancel, postpone or
reschedule this training, at its sole discretion. 

Feel free to call or email with any questions you may have.

We look forward to helping with your training needs.

Sincerely,

Veronica K?tt
President
Front Runner Training
A Division of Front Runner Publishing Solutions Inc.
416-515-0155
veronica at front-runner.com

Front Runner
21 St. Clair Avenue East, Suite 402
Toronto, ON  M4T 1L8

"Learn what you wish you'd known yesterday!"

Front Runner Training is now a WebWorks University - Certified Affiliate! We
offer certified WebWorks ePublisher Pro training and we're an authorized
Quadralay software reseller.

Emergency situation

[Ariel Kahana]

Problem solved
Cause - superimposed text frame

Thanks 

-Original Message-
From: Jeremy H. Griffith [mailto:jer...@omsys.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 6:14 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Cc: Ariel Kahana; Paul_Giesing at McAfee.com
Subject: Re: Emergency situation 

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:40:46 -0700, "Ariel Kahana" 
wrote:

>I am experiencing a very peculiar problem with one of my documents.
Whenever
>I try to modify a particular section and then save the document, the text
>jumbles up and is not legible. Its almost as though there are two text
flows
>clashing into one another. This is not only a screen issue because the
messy
>text situation is replicated when I print the affected section. 

The screenshot didn't come through (lists don't allow attachments),
but my guess is that you *do* have two flows.  This can happen if
you Ctrl-drag a text frame a tiny bit; you get a copy of it on top
of the original one.  It's easy to do this by accident when editing.
You need to delete the frame that is *not* in the exact position it
should be; check the position by Ctrl-clicking on the frame, then
looking at Graphics > Object Properties.  One of the two frames
should have slightly different properties than the ones you see
whan you check a frame on a different page; that's the one you need
to delete.

HTH!

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
http://www.omsys.com/

Printing Thumb Tabs

[donandjudy1]

Hi, folks:

With the help of several stalwart frameusers, I successfully created thumb
tabs along the edge of a version of my fixit book.
However, my inkjet printer won't print close enough to the edge for the tabs
to "bleed." It will create the tabs with the text which can be viewed by
flipping through the book sideways, but they won't show when the book is
closed.

And I know that laser printers require even larger blank margins than
inkjets. So, perhaps this option shouldn't be offered to the on-line
customer without a warning. Or perhaps the tabs should be reformatted to
represent what can be realistically printed. Pity.

I have a vague recollection that, in the recent days when I was ferreting
out the tab formatting problem, someone wrote about the printing
difficulties of bleeding tabs, suggesting larger paper and cutting it
afterwards. But I can't find that e-mail. Furthermore, this doesn't seem
practical when one considers that most folks can only print on longer (14"),
not wider paper.

Perhaps bleeding tabs can only be handled by professional printers and
therefore included only in a hard bound version, not a print at home PDF.
True or false? Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

~ Don Spencer

Printing Thumb Tabs

[Peter Gold]

At 10:30 AM -0700 4/19/06, donandjudy1 wrote:
>Hi, folks:
>
>With the help of several stalwart frameusers, I successfully created thumb
>tabs along the edge of a version of my fixit book.
>However, my inkjet printer won't print close enough to the edge for the tabs
>to "bleed." It will create the tabs with the text which can be viewed by
>flipping through the book sideways, but they won't show when the book is
>closed.

Hi, Don:

Look thoroughly through your printer's settings and options, 
especially any labeled "advanced." Some offer the ability to print 
closer to the edge of the paper with the caution that these edge 
areas may lose some quality.

Also, search your printer-manufacturer's Web site for solutions on 
printing closer to the edge on your model. There may be a newer 
printer driver or other workaround.

HTH


Regards,

Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices

Printing Thumb Tabs

[Glenn Voyles]

Don,
>
>Perhaps bleeding tabs can only be handled by professional printers and
>therefore included only in a hard bound version, not a print at home
PDF.
>True or false? Any suggestions?
>
Our department decided to keep the bleeding tabs even on the print at
home PDFs so we wouldn't have to maintain two versions of the doc and
there wouldn't be a reformatting issue if the doc did go to print
production. 

Glenn

Printing Thumb Tabs

[Combs, Richard]

Don Spencer wrote:  

> Perhaps bleeding tabs can only be handled by professional 
> printers and therefore included only in a hard bound version, 
> not a print at home PDF.
> True or false? Any suggestions?

For all intents and purposes, that's true. Some inkjets let you print
"borderless," but it's mostly the more expensive 6-7 color photo
printers. All the lasers I know about have a non-printing border. 

Face it, if you want a professional-looking book, use a professional
printer, not some cheap "home office" inkjet. 

Richard


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FM > XML > FM Table Problem

[Lynne A. Price]

At 05:35 PM 4/18/2006, Lofthouse Marsha-PT1816 wrote:
>I'm getting the following error - many of them - when I save a
>structured FM file as xml and then try to open it in FM:
>
>; line 70
>FrameMaker cannot insert the table cell (Entry) at the current position.
>A cell must be in a table row.
>
>The file validates as does the EDD.
>...
>When I look at the xml file saved from FM, I see what I want:
>
>
>More blah blah
>...

Marsha,
   The problem is that you have not specified the number of columns in the 
table. If the number of columns is fixed, you can specify it with a r/w 
rule. Otherwise, specify it in an XML-only attribute of the Table element. 
If you use the name "cols" for the attribute, you won't need a r/w rule. 
Otherwise, use a rule such as:

 attribute "myattname" is fm property columns;

 --Lynne

Lynne A. Price
Text Structure Consulting, Inc.
Specializing in structured FrameMaker consulting, application development, 
and training
lprice at txstruct.comhttp://www.txstruct.com
voice/fax: (510) 583-1505  cell phone: (510) 421-2284 

Printing Thumb Tabs

[Grant Hogarth]

Yup-- you are pretty much SOL if you want to print bleeding tabs on
anything but a professional printer.  Even those are usually (99%+ in my
experience) printed with the expectation that the pages will be trimmed
to a smaller size.  I'd leave the tabs in, as they are still useful when
flipping thrugh the book (as you noted).  If anythin, I'd create a
template for a "universal" (A4/US Letter) page, and apply that page to
the FM book before creating the PDF, as any user who prints the doc will
be printing to that size of paper, and then either stapling or ring
binding the output.  

You could always offer "tab inserts" for an added price, I suppose. 

Grant

-Original Message-
From: framers-bounces+grant.hogarth=reuters@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+grant.hogarth=reuters.com at lists.frameusers.com]
On Behalf Of donandjudy1
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 11:31 AM
To: Framers (E-mail)
Subject: Printing Thumb Tabs

Hi, folks:

With the help of several stalwart frameusers, I successfully created
thumb tabs along the edge of a version of my fixit book.
However, my inkjet printer won't print close enough to the edge for the
tabs to "bleed." It will create the tabs with the text which can be
viewed by flipping through the book sideways, but they won't show when
the book is closed.

And I know that laser printers require even larger blank margins than
inkjets. So, perhaps this option shouldn't be offered to the on-line
customer without a warning. Or perhaps the tabs should be reformatted to
represent what can be realistically printed. Pity.

I have a vague recollection that, in the recent days when I was
ferreting out the tab formatting problem, someone wrote about the
printing difficulties of bleeding tabs, suggesting larger paper and
cutting it afterwards. But I can't find that e-mail. Furthermore, this
doesn't seem practical when one considers that most folks can only print
on longer (14"), not wider paper.

Perhaps bleeding tabs can only be handled by professional printers and
therefore included only in a hard bound version, not a print at home
PDF.
True or false? Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

~ Don Spencer

Semi-OT: Thinking XML: Review of RFC 3470: Guidelines for the Use of XML [IBM developerWorks]

[Grant Hogarth]

Thinking XML: Review of RFC 3470: Guidelines for the Use of XML
Uche Ogbuji, IBM developerWorks

In this article the author surveys the IETF's take on XML best
practices. XML was designed specifically for use on the Internet ('the
Web' to be precise), and many Internet protocols use XML to represent
data and documents. XML has thus become important to all the major
standards organizations developing Internet technology, and not least
the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), an organization whose
technical papers drive most Internet protocols from e-mail to Web
communications, and beyond. In order to provide consistent quality of
XML used with such IETF technologies, the IETF developed a set of
guidelines, RFC 3470, entitled "Guidelines for the Use of Extensible
Markup Language (XML) within IETF Protocols." This article expands upon
the valuable advice provided in RFC 3470. Ogbuji: "Despite a few
quibbles, I think RFC 3470 is an excellent document."

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think36.html
 
See also the RFC: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3470.txt
 

SOURCE:
XML.org Daily Newslink. Tuesday, 18 April 2006
Provided by OASIS http://www.oasis-open.org 

(Newbie) Structured FM Question: Notes, Tips, etc.

[Lin Surasky]

Hi all-

I'm brand-spankin' new to this structured stuff, so please bear with me
and my ignorance

We have a fabulous unstructured template that has 4 different table
formats our writers use to insert alerts (Notes, Tips, Important facts,
and Warnings). All of the table formats are single-row, two-column
layouts, but each table format (named zNote, zTip, etc.) is unique in
two ways: the color of the column rule and the paragraph tag used in the
first column of the table, which corresponds to the type of alert (note,
tip, etc.). For example:

 |
Note | Note text goes here. Note text always uses one 
 | of two paragraph formats: Note or Note Bullet.
 | 

The word Note (or Tip, etc.) is actually a graphic on the reference page
that the paragraph format zAnchorNote calls. When a user inserts a Note
in the unstructured template, the paragraph formats are automatically
assigned. So if a user inserts a Tip and they choose the zTip table
format, the word Tip automatically appears in the first column, because
the table format is using zAnchorTip, which calls the right graphic from
the reference page

Okay... So here's my structured question, in case anyone's still
reading.

What's the best way to implement this and still get the same end result?
Should I not be using tables? The closest I can get is inserting a table
with the same paragraph format assigned to both table cells, which I
don't want. How do you specify one paragraph format for one column and a
different format for the second column?

Thanks for any and all help!
-Lin

Lin Surasky
Technical Writer
Retalix USA
520-298-7757 x3109
www.retalix.com

Some PDF Links Not Working

[feimin_lore...@amis.com]

I'm using FrameMaker 7.2p158, Distiller 6.0.0 5/15/2003, and Windows XP. 

We recently noticed that a lot of the cross-references in FrameMaker 
didn't translate into working links in the PDF. I use Save As... to turn 
it into a PDF. When you put the cursor over the link, it changes to a 
pointing finger, but when you click on the link, it doesn't go anywhere. 

I've tried updating the cross-references, and I've tried the XRef Wizard 
from West Street Consulting, and I've searched for Unresolved 
Cross-References, but everything seems fine in FrameMaker. If I replace 
the cross-reference (by simply double-clicking on it, opening the source 
file, clicking Replace in the dialog box), then it works. However, I can't 
get xrefs to figure captions and table captions to work, no matter what, 
and I would prefer to not have to replace every cross-reference in the 3 
problem manuals. 

This problem is happening in both structured and unstructured FrameMaker 
documents. I'm also flipping back and forth between FrameMaker 7.1 and 7.2 
because FinalDraft only works with 7.1. 

Any ideas or suggestions? 

Fei Min 


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