Re: Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic, Minion Pro, and Auld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All.

2008-02-11 Thread Rhea Barron
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RE: Annoying FrameMaker Question

2008-02-11 Thread Michael O'Neill
Stuart, Carla Thank you both for your suggestions (sorry if I missed anyone else!). It didn't look like Modified FrameMaker Utilities Carla suggested would work with my version of FrameMaker. At Stuart's suggestion, I tried ResourceHacker and within minutes managed to modify and test the dialog

Annoying FrameMaker Question

2008-02-11 Thread Michael O'Neill
Hi Folks, I am using FrameMaker 6.x and am very annoyed with the size of the Show/Hide Conditional Text window. It isn't wide enough to show the full names of my conditions, and doesn't appear to allow resizing. Does anyone know if: 1) There is a way to scroll the conditions in

Resolved: Keeping Two Tables Together in Frame 6.0

2008-02-11 Thread Theresa Zamborsky
Hi Stuart, I think this might be our solution! I played around with it a few weeks ago, but had to run it past the group just this week, so that's why I haven't replied back to you until just now. Thanks so much for sending me the suggestion! Theresa -Original Message- From:

RE: How do you count the total number of words in a FM book

2008-02-11 Thread Grant Hogarth
Quick workaround for that Build a book that has only the content files, (No TOC or Index). Grant -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Diane Gaskill Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 8:59 AM To: Framers Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Bruce Foster

SOLVED -- Re: Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic, Minion Pro, andAuld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All

2008-02-11 Thread Hedley Finger
All: At Tuesday, 12/02/2008, 04:38 AM;, you wrote: Your latest message must have been transmitted in MIME format. It came through silent. :) Now that I've got everyone's attention ... somehow that paste didn't happen and I sent off an empty message. Sorry if it didn't satisfy your humger

Limiting table/graphics table widths

2008-02-11 Thread Chen, Loretta
Hi Everyone, We're looking for a way to limit the width of our tables in our template. This is so tables don't overflow when copied into different page sizes during translation. This includes tables with multiple columns and a single-cell tables used to hold graphics. I see there's a

RE: Annoying FrameMaker Question

2008-02-11 Thread Martinek, Carla
This utility for FM7.x did resize many of the windows, including the conditional text window. I also liked the way it streamlined and removed some of the redundant information in the screens. http://www.daube.ch/docu/fmaker36.html Unfortunately, I don't think it will work on FM6.x, but you can

Re: Archive searching and moving text inset files

2008-02-11 Thread Rick Henkel
Any recommendation on a text editor? I don't think I have anything other than Notepad installed currently, as I don't use text editors a lot. I used ConTEXT when I had to edit the MIF files. But since we can't install that on our work PCs anymore, I've been using Portable Notepad++ lately.

Re: Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic, Minion Pro, andAuld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All

2008-02-11 Thread Stuart Rogers
Mike Wickham wrote: Your latest message must have been transmitted in MIME format. It came through silent. :) Stop that. You're making my fillings hurt. :) -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers

Re: Archive searching and moving text inset files

2008-02-11 Thread Rick Henkel
Linda G. Gallagher wrote: Can you edit mif files to change the text inset paths? Any gotchas? When we first moved from Word to Frame, I had several writers who kept moving or renaming their inset folders. So I had lots of practice editing MIF files to change inset paths. It was really

Re: Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic, Minion Pro, and Auld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All

2008-02-11 Thread Hedley Finger
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Re: Annoying FrameMaker Question

2008-02-11 Thread Stuart Rogers
Michael O'Neill wrote: Hi Folks, I am using FrameMaker 6.x and am very annoyed with the size of the Show/Hide Conditional Text window. It isn't wide enough to show the full names of my conditions, and doesn't appear to allow resizing. Does anyone know if: 1)

Re: Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic, Minion Pro, and Auld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All.

2008-02-11 Thread Susan Modlin
Hmmm. I use Minion Pro, Win XP Pro, FM 7.2p158 and have no problems with smart quotes. Smart e-mails are another issue entirely g. ...Susan - Original Message From: Hedley Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Frame Users [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008

Re: Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic, Minion Pro, andAuld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All

2008-02-11 Thread Mike Wickham
Hedley, Your latest message must have been transmitted in MIME format. It came through silent. :) Mike Wickham - Original Message - From: Hedley Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:09 AM Subject: Re: Smart Quotes pretty dumb in

RE: 508 compliance

2008-02-11 Thread Kelly McDaniel
Start here: http://www.section508.gov/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:framers- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of A. McTighe Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 10:36 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: 508 compliance Has anyone out there had experience

RE: Archive searching and moving text inset files

2008-02-11 Thread Linda G. Gallagher
Thanks, Rick. Any recommendation on a text editor? I don't think I have anything other than Notepad installed currently, as I don't use text editors a lot. ~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC lindag at techcomplus dot com www.techcomplus.com 303-450-9076 or

Archive searching and moving text inset files

2008-02-11 Thread Linda G. Gallagher
Framers, Is it just me? I don't see any search function on the archives page. Even if I did, searching each month looks rather onerous. So, I know this has been discussed before, but I've not had to deal with it before. I'm playing detective and tracking down text inset files several books for a

Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic, Minion Pro, and Auld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All.

2008-02-11 Thread Hedley Finger
Smart Quotes is on but when I press ' or ", question marks (?) appear in Gentium Basic and Minion Pro fonts, not quotes. Gentium Basic was selected for testing because it is an Unicode conforming font that supports every alphabet based on roman or cyrillic glyphs, including accents. It is

Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic, Minion Pro, and Auld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All

2008-02-11 Thread Hedley Finger

Comparison of FM8 multimedia/3D capabilities with FM+TimeSavers+MM/3D Assistants

2008-02-11 Thread Shlomo Perets
FrameMaker 8.0 introduced the option of including multimedia and 3D files (SWF/U3D) in the source FM files, that are then embedded in the PDF when the FrameMaker file is saved as PDF. In my opinion, the new options are minimalistic, and FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers still provides many more

How do you count the total number of words in a FM book

2008-02-11 Thread Grant Hogarth
Quick workaround for that Build a book that has only the content files, (No TOC or Index). Grant -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Diane Gaskill Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 8:59 AM To:

Resolved: Keeping Two Tables Together in Frame 6.0

2008-02-11 Thread Theresa Zamborsky
Hi Stuart, I think this might be our solution! I played around with it a few weeks ago, but had to run it past the group just this week, so that's why I haven't replied back to you until just now. Thanks so much for sending me the suggestion! Theresa -Original Message- From: Stuart

Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic, Minion Pro, andAuld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All

2008-02-11 Thread Mike Wickham
Hedley, Your latest message must have been transmitted in MIME format. It came through silent. :) Mike Wickham - Original Message - From: "Hedley Finger" To: Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:09 AM Subject: Re: Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic,

Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic, Minion Pro, andAuld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All

2008-02-11 Thread Stuart Rogers
Mike Wickham wrote: > Your latest message must have been transmitted in MIME format. It came > through silent. :) > Stop that. You're making my fillings hurt. :) -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers

Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic, Minion Pro, and Auld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All.

2008-02-11 Thread Susan Modlin
Hmmm. I use Minion Pro, Win XP Pro, FM 7.2p158 and have no problems with smart quotes. Smart e-mails are another issue entirely . ...Susan - Original Message From: Hedley Finger To: Frame Users ; framemaker-dita at yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 10,

Smart Quotes pretty dumb in Gentium Basic, Minion Pro, and Auld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and All.

2008-02-11 Thread Rhea Barron

508 compliance

2008-02-11 Thread Kelly McDaniel
Start here: http://www.section508.gov/ > -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers- > bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of A. McTighe > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 10:36 PM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: 508

508 compliance

2008-02-11 Thread Allen, Richard (Raytheon)
We use the Adobe accessibility tools for this purpose. Once the PDF passes the "accessibility checker" we call it compliant. This message contains information that may be confidential and privileged. Unless you are the addressee (or authorized to receive mail for the addressee), you should not

Annoying FrameMaker Question

2008-02-11 Thread Michael O'Neill
Hi Folks, I am using FrameMaker 6.x and am very annoyed with the size of the Show/Hide Conditional Text window. It isn't wide enough to show the full names of my conditions, and doesn't appear to allow resizing. Does anyone know if: 1) There is a way to scroll the conditions in

Annoying FrameMaker Question

2008-02-11 Thread Martinek, Carla
This utility for FM7.x did resize many of the windows, including the conditional text window. I also liked the way it streamlined and removed some of the redundant information in the screens. http://www.daube.ch/docu/fmaker36.html Unfortunately, I don't think it will work on FM6.x, but you can

Annoying FrameMaker Question

2008-02-11 Thread Stuart Rogers
Michael O'Neill wrote: > Hi Folks, > > > > I am using FrameMaker 6.x and am very annoyed with the size of the > Show/Hide Conditional Text window. It isn't wide enough to show the > full names of my conditions, and doesn't appear to allow resizing. > > > > Does anyone know if: > > >

Annoying FrameMaker Question

2008-02-11 Thread Michael O'Neill
Stuart, Carla Thank you both for your suggestions (sorry if I missed anyone else!). It didn't look like Modified FrameMaker Utilities Carla suggested would work with my version of FrameMaker. At Stuart's suggestion, I tried ResourceHacker and within minutes managed to modify and test the dialog

Archive searching and moving text inset files

2008-02-11 Thread Linda G. Gallagher
Framers, Is it just me? I don't see any search function on the archives page. Even if I did, searching each month looks rather onerous. So, I know this has been discussed before, but I've not had to deal with it before. I'm playing detective and tracking down text inset files several books for a

Archive searching and moving text inset files

2008-02-11 Thread Rick Henkel
Linda G. Gallagher wrote: > > Can you edit mif files to change the text inset paths? Any gotchas? > > When we first moved from Word to Frame, I had several writers who kept moving or renaming their inset folders. So I had lots of practice editing MIF files to change inset paths. It was

Archive searching and moving text inset files

2008-02-11 Thread Linda G. Gallagher
Thanks, Rick. Any recommendation on a text editor? I don't think I have anything other than Notepad installed currently, as I don't use text editors a lot. ~ Linda G. Gallagher TechCom Plus, LLC lindag at techcomplus dot com www.techcomplus.com 303-450-9076 or

Archive searching and moving text inset files

2008-02-11 Thread Rick Henkel
> Any recommendation on a text editor? I don't think I have anything other > than Notepad installed currently, as I don't use text editors a lot. I used ConTEXT when I had to edit the MIF files. But since we can't install that on our work PCs anymore, I've been using Portable Notepad++ lately.

Limiting table/graphics table widths

2008-02-11 Thread Chen, Loretta
> Hi Everyone, > > We're looking for a way to limit the width of our tables in our > template. This is so tables don't overflow when copied into different > page sizes during translation. > > This includes tables with multiple columns and a single-cell tables > used to hold graphics. > > I see