RE: Cross References in Structured FrameMaker

2006-09-13 Thread Pallavi Nagesha
Mike Thanks muchly. I did have cross reference also in the paragraph element, but it was like this: TEXT | ( Emphasis | InlineGraphic | Button | CrossReference)* I changed it to ( TEXT | Emphasis | InlineGraphic | Button | CrossReference)* and this seems to work. Pallavi

Unresolved Cross Reference

2006-09-13 Thread Kotzen, Edward
Hello. I have a couple of documents that Frame keeps telling me that have unresolved cross references. When I search for them, they are not found. Any ideas? Thank you. Ed ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL

RE: TOC wrap

2006-09-13 Thread Pinkham, Jim
Here's a link to the earlier June discussion: http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/2006-June/003154.html. One thing mentioned in that thread is TOC Breaker. I've used this free utility with satisfactory results for what Linda wishes to do. To find it, go here:

Question regarding converting documents to Structured FrameMaker

2006-09-13 Thread Dave Shevitz
Hello, I am just now experimenting with Structured FrameMaker, and I have a question. I'm currently using version Adobe FrameMaker 7.1. What I would like is to ensure that the converted document is always wrapped in a chapter tag. Currently, a chapter can contain a title element, a single

ANN: FrameSLT 2.0 Release

2006-09-13 Thread russ
West Street Consulting is pleased to announce the release of FrameSLT 2.0, with important new features such as expanded XPath support and Node Wizard Scripting. For more information, please visit www.weststreetconsulting.com. Thank you. ___ You are

Re: Unresolved Cross Reference

2006-09-13 Thread Art Campbell
Did you search on the Reference and Master pages? Art On 9/12/06, Kotzen, Edward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I have a couple of documents that Frame keeps telling me that have unresolved cross references. When I search for them, they are not found. Any ideas? -- Art Campbell

RE: Unresolved Cross Reference

2006-09-13 Thread Zoe Lawson
Do you have any conditional text? That can confuse your cross-references, too. I figure out if it's a conditional text thing, I just ignore those errors. Zoƫ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Art Campbell Sent: Wednesday, September 13,

Re: Unresolved Cross Reference

2006-09-13 Thread Stephen O'Brien
Hi. Could be a text inset inserted just before a title which has a X-Ref marker... when the document is updated, the text inset makes the x-ref marker disappear. In these cases, I remove the text inset, redo the cross-reference, then copy the marker to elsewhere in the title (not at the

RE: Wrapping TOC, extra tabs not quite solving all problems

2006-09-13 Thread Grant Hogarth
I'm coming in on the tail end of this, but one thing I use is non-breaking spaces to clump words together. That forces line breaks to occurr only at normal spaces. (I use this in my indexes as well, where needed) Grant -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Gotolinks

2006-09-13 Thread James Barrow
Hello All, My original questions about gotolinks and alt text pop-ups within graphics were answered and everything worked out fine. Thanks! Unfortunately, a new problem has arisen. Whenever I place a gotolink in one Book file that points to a newlink in another Book file, I get an error

Re: Gotolinks

2006-09-13 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Jim, Use forward slashes in your path and see what happens. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com Hello All, My original questions about gotolinks and alt text pop-ups within graphics were answered and everything worked out fine. Thanks! Unfortunately, a new

URL Encoded Problem in PDF

2006-09-13 Thread Donald M Rinderknecht
Hi Gang, I've got a link to a url that is being encoded by Acrobat, and not working when I click on it. For example, the marker has message URL http://www.site.com/~directory/index.html; and the tilde is being encoded to %7E when the link is clicked, but appears as ~ in the PDF. If I

RE: Unresolved Cross Reference

2006-09-13 Thread Combs, Richard
Kotzen, Edward wrote: I have a couple of documents that Frame keeps telling me that have unresolved cross references. When I search for them, they are not found. Any ideas? If this is in the context of a book, there's another possibility: Are there any files in the book that produce

RE: Wrapping TOC, extra tabs not quite solving all problems

2006-09-13 Thread Linda G. Gallagher
Thanks to everyone who responded. I received lots of great ideas, but none worked given the 6 x 9 page size and very long headings, except for the TOC Breaker plug-in http://www.telecable.es/personales/cud/cssIndex.htm. I installed that, played with it a bit, and got it to fix the problems. Not

RE: Cross References in Structured FrameMaker

2006-09-13 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 06:04 AM 9/12/2006, Pallavi Nagesha wrote: I did have cross reference also in the paragraph element, but it was like this: TEXT | ( Emphasis | InlineGraphic | Button | CrossReference)* I changed it to ( TEXT | Emphasis | InlineGraphic | Button | CrossReference)* and this seems to

RE: Table in structured Frame

2006-09-13 Thread Anderson, Eileen
Hi, Surbhi. We have a similar table in our structured Frame implementation. Define the table to contain an icon cell and a text cell, then define those cells to contain the type of content they need. It might look something like this: Element (Table): SpecialTable General rule: SpecialBody

Re: Question regarding converting documents to Structured FrameMaker

2006-09-13 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 08:59 AM 9/12/2006, Dave Shevitz wrote: What I would like is to ensure that the converted document is always wrapped in a chapter tag. Currently, a chapter can contain a title element, a single itemizedlist element, and one or more sect1 elements. I've tried to create my conversion table

Unresolved Cross Reference

2006-09-13 Thread Fred Staal
Edward, As someone else mentioned, its usually a text inset that won't update automatically for some reason (Could be a text inset inserted just before a title which has a X-Ref marker). I have a lot of text insets that fit that condition, but most function without any trouble. Besides Stephen

RE: Question regarding converting documents to Structured FrameMaker

2006-09-13 Thread Lynne A. Price
Dave, You are quite welcome. Glad you solved the problem. The debugging hint is to look in the generated structured document for unexpected content that is present as well as for expected content that is missing! --Lynne At 12:06 PM 9/13/2006, Dave Shevitz wrote: Aha! As it turned

Re: Document Management System needed for FM

2006-09-13 Thread Art Campbell
Before I looked at external solutions, I think you should establish that the built-in WebDAV solution won't work for you... Art On 9/13/06, Loren R. Elks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: We need a Document Management System that will help us store FM files. It would be helpful if the program

Re: Document Management System needed for FM

2006-09-13 Thread John Posada
Does it work for anyone? --- Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before I looked at external solutions, I think you should establish that the built-in WebDAV solution won't work for you... Art John Posada Senior Technical Writer I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that

Re: Document Management System needed for FM

2006-09-13 Thread Art Campbell
I haven't used it for a couple years, but for a fairly small shop with a decent server, it seemed to work OK a job or two ago. (I'm using CVS now, with few complaints.) I think the robustness of the server and the continued care and feeding of the server are the key issues; I don't recall any FM

Table in structured Frame

2006-09-13 Thread Surbhi Singhal
Hi All, I need to have a 1 row and two column table. The first column has a graphic and the second column has text. This is easy to do in unstructured frame. But, How to implement the same in Structured Frame. ? How does the table definition in EDD change for this kind of a table. Please help.

MLA publication format

2006-09-13 Thread nancy carpenter
Does anyone have a URL to a site that describes the MLA publication format? A colleague needs it for a paper. Thank you. Nancy Carpenter Lead Technical Writer GENCO Distribution System 100 Papercraft Park Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15238

MLA publication format

2006-09-13 Thread Art Campbell
Purdue has something onnline at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/ ___ For those interested in spaces, the MLA FAQ says: "Because it is increasingly common for papers and manuscripts to be prepared with a single space after all punctuation marks, this spacing is shown in the

ANN: FrameSLT 2.0 Release

2006-09-13 Thread r...@weststreetconsulting.com
West Street Consulting is pleased to announce the release of FrameSLT 2.0, with important new features such as expanded XPath support and Node Wizard Scripting. For more information, please visit www.weststreetconsulting.com. Thank you.

Unresolved Cross Reference

2006-09-13 Thread Art Campbell
Did you search on the Reference and Master pages? Art On 9/12/06, Kotzen, Edward wrote: > Hello. > > > > I have a couple of documents that Frame keeps telling me that have > unresolved cross references. > > > > When I search for them, they are not found. Any ideas? -- Art Campbell

Unresolved Cross Reference

2006-09-13 Thread Zoe Lawson
Do you have any conditional text? That can confuse your cross-references, too. I figure out if it's a conditional text thing, I just ignore those errors. Zo? -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+zlawson=openservice@lists.frameusers.com

Unresolved Cross Reference

2006-09-13 Thread Stephen O'Brien
Hi. Could be a text inset inserted just before a title which has a X-Ref marker... when the document is updated, the text inset makes the x-ref marker disappear. In these cases, I remove the text inset, redo the cross-reference, then copy the marker to elsewhere in the title (not at the

Wrapping TOC, extra tabs not quite solving all problems

2006-09-13 Thread Grant Hogarth
I'm coming in on the tail end of this, but one thing I use is non-breaking spaces to "clump" words together. That forces line breaks to occurr only at "normal" spaces. (I use this in my indexes as well, where needed) Grant -Original Message- From:

Gotolinks

2006-09-13 Thread James Barrow
Hello All, My original questions about gotolinks and alt text pop-ups within graphics were answered and everything worked out fine. Thanks! Unfortunately, a new problem has arisen. Whenever I place a gotolink in one Book file that points to a newlink in another Book file, I get an error

URL Encoded Problem in PDF

2006-09-13 Thread Donald M Rinderknecht
Hi Gang, I've got a link to a url that is being encoded by Acrobat, and not working when I click on it. For example, the marker has "message URL http://www.site.com/~directory/index.html; and the tilde is being encoded to %7E when the link is clicked, but appears as "~" in the PDF. If I

Unresolved Cross Reference

2006-09-13 Thread Combs, Richard
Kotzen, Edward wrote: > I have a couple of documents that Frame keeps telling me that > have unresolved cross references. > > > > When I search for them, they are not found. Any ideas? If this is in the context of a book, there's another possibility: Are there any files in the book that

Wrapping TOC, extra tabs not quite solving all problems

2006-09-13 Thread Linda G. Gallagher
Thanks to everyone who responded. I received lots of great ideas, but none worked given the 6 x 9 page size and very long headings, except for the TOC Breaker plug-in http://www.telecable.es/personales/cud/cssIndex.htm. I installed that, played with it a bit, and got it to fix the problems. Not

Cross References in Structured FrameMaker

2006-09-13 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 06:04 AM 9/12/2006, Pallavi Nagesha wrote: > I did have cross reference also in the paragraph element, but it was > like this: >| ( Emphasis | InlineGraphic | Button | CrossReference)* > > I changed it to ( | Emphasis | InlineGraphic | Button | > CrossReference)* and this seems to

Table in structured Frame

2006-09-13 Thread Anderson, Eileen
Hi, Surbhi. We have a similar table in our structured Frame implementation. Define the table to contain an icon cell and a text cell, then define those cells to contain the type of content they need. It might look something like this: Element (Table): SpecialTable General rule: SpecialBody

Question regarding converting documents to Structured FrameMaker

2006-09-13 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 08:59 AM 9/12/2006, Dave Shevitz wrote: >What I would like is to ensure that the converted document is always >wrapped in a tag. Currently, a can contain a >element, a single element, and one or more >elements. I've tried to create my conversion table statement to read: > >title,

Unresolved Cross Reference

2006-09-13 Thread Fred Staal
Edward, As someone else mentioned, its usually a text inset that won't update automatically for some reason ("Could be a text inset inserted just before a title which has a X-Ref marker"). I have a lot of text insets that fit that condition, but most function without any trouble. Besides Stephen

Question regarding converting documents to Structured FrameMaker

2006-09-13 Thread Lynne A. Price
Dave, You are quite welcome. Glad you solved the problem. The debugging hint is to look in the generated structured document for unexpected content that is present as well as for expected content that is missing! --Lynne At 12:06 PM 9/13/2006, Dave Shevitz wrote: >Aha! As it turned

Document Management System needed for FM

2006-09-13 Thread Art Campbell
Before I looked at external solutions, I think you should establish that the built-in WebDAV solution won't work for you... Art On 9/13/06, Loren R. Elks wrote: > Hi: > > We need a Document Management System that will help us store FM files. > It would be helpful if the program could also store

Document Management System needed for FM

2006-09-13 Thread John Posada
Does it work for anyone? --- Art Campbell wrote: > Before I looked at external solutions, I think you should establish > that the built-in WebDAV solution won't work for you... > > Art John Posada Senior Technical Writer "I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've

Document Management System needed for FM

2006-09-13 Thread Art Campbell
I haven't used it for a couple years, but for a fairly small shop with a decent server, it seemed to work OK a job or two ago. (I'm using CVS now, with few complaints.) I think the robustness of the server and the continued care and feeding of the server are the key issues; I don't recall any FM

good flowchart software to use with Frame

2006-09-13 Thread Beth Prince
Hi, all, I need to make up some flowcharts to import into frame. I used SmartDraw, but when I import the SmartDraw file, it's not very clear and it does not resize well. Anyone have any suggestions?? Beth

Document Management System needed for FM

2006-09-13 Thread Scott Abel
Wayne: You might try Astoria Software -- www.astoriasoftware.com -- as they also have integration with FrameMaker. While not open source, I have found that they are truly in synch with the needs of the tech pubs community and more responsive than some others. They will be demonstrating their

Question regarding converting documents to Structured FrameMaker

2006-09-13 Thread Dave Shevitz
Lynne, Aha! As it turned out, there was a blank paragraph tag between my Title element and my Itemizedlist element. Once I found that, I modified my conversion table and all was well. Thanks--I don't know if I would've thought of that! Dave Shevitz Sr. Technical Writer | d.shevitz at f5.com