Re: Upgrading FM from 7.1 to 9

2009-12-02 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:48:30 -0800, Lea Rush l...@astoria-pacific.com wrote: I did a comparison of RH vs. Mif2Go at the beginning of the year, and the biggest difference I found was that RH supported Natural Language search. Does Mif2Go support that, or will it? If I understand you correctly, you

Re: Disappearing anchored frames: strange FrameMaker bug

2009-12-02 Thread Klaus Daube
On 1 Dec 2009 at 9:48, Steve Rickaby wrote: Yes, but it still shouldn't have disappeared. In this case the following few pages have a stack of tables and both anchored and floating frames. I once had the problem describe here: http://www.daube.ch/docu/fmaker33.html I guess the same may happen

cross book links in PDF portfolios or combined books

2009-12-02 Thread Fred Wersan
I was experimenting a bit yesterday with PDF Portfolios and combined books. Either method seems like a good way to give readers a central starting point for a doc set. However I noticed that the xref links between books, which work fine between individual book PDFs, did not work within the

Re: Auto-numbering figures across files

2009-12-02 Thread Art Campbell
Heidi, You mention that you've set the numbering properties, but you don't say where you've set them. For a book to increment across component chapters, you must set them in the book, not in a chapter(s). Select all component chapters in the book file, right click, select Numbering, and verify

Re: Long code samples in shaded table

2009-12-02 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 11:28 +0100 2/12/09, Klaus Daube wrote: How about this idea: - Convert all lines (paragraphs) of the code example to a table (one paragraph becoming one row. - Use a table format with no horizontal ruling between the rows. - The automatic breakting between the rows should be no problem. That

Re: Disappearing anchored frames: strange FrameMaker bug

2009-12-02 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 09:48 + 1/12/09, I wrote: As another aside, I just noticed that FrameMaker doesn't increment autonumbers if the autonumbered paragraphs lie in disjoint text frames that are themselves within an anchored frame. This is true even if both frames belong to the same named flow. I wonder if

RE: Long code samples in shaded table

2009-12-02 Thread Combs, Richard
Steve Rickaby wrote: At 11:28 +0100 2/12/09, Klaus Daube wrote: How about this idea: - Convert all lines (paragraphs) of the code example to a table (one paragraph becoming one row. - Use a table format with no horizontal ruling between the rows. - The automatic breakting between the

RE: Long code samples in shaded table

2009-12-02 Thread Combs, Richard
I wrote: My Code pgf format is 9 pt with 12 pt line spacing, and there's no space above or below the pgf. 12 - 9 = 3. So Cell Margins Top (on the Table Cell properties tab) is set to 3.0 pt (and Bottom is 0 pt). Bingo. Code text in two adjacent rows is spaced exactly the same as in two

RE: Long code samples in shaded table

2009-12-02 Thread Steve Rickaby
Richard... thanks for this. Yes, this sounds like the way to go... but tomorrow now, as it's 6:30 pm here. -- Steve ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To

RE: Long code samples in shaded table

2009-12-02 Thread Fred Ridder
If you define a table format with the Top and Bottom settings for Default Cell Margins set to 0 pts, the table will have no affect whatsoever on the line spacing that you define for your code listing paragraph style. Piece of cake. -Fred Ridder Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 15:08:37 + To:

RE: Long code samples in shaded table

2009-12-02 Thread Combs, Richard
Fred Ridder wrote: If you define a table format with the Top and Bottom settings for Default Cell Margins set to 0 pts, the table will have no affect whatsoever on the line spacing that you define for your code listing paragraph style. Piece of cake. Not quite, Fred. If you do only that, FM

Text wrap in FrameMaker

2009-12-02 Thread Brad Simmons
Is it possible to do Text Wraps around pictures in FrameMaker, just like you can do in InDesign? I fear the answer is no, but I thought I'd ask in case someone had an inside tip to show me. Thanks, Brad Simmons Technical Writer Ag-Leader Technology Ames, Iowa

Re: Text wrap in FrameMaker

2009-12-02 Thread Art Campbell
I have no idea how ID does it, but if you select an image and right click, you should see Runaround Properties. May vary a bit from release to release, and since you didn't mention your system configuration Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com ... In my opinion, there's nothing in

Re: Text wrap in FrameMaker

2009-12-02 Thread Scott White
You can if you take the image out of the frame and is eps with a clipping path, fill set to none. You can see how this works by using one of the images from the clipart folderballoons and set your runaround to runaround contour. Been a long time since we did it here as a test, but it did work.

Re: Text wrap in FrameMaker

2009-12-02 Thread Stuart Rogers
Brad Simmons wrote: Is it possible to do Text Wraps around pictures in FrameMaker, just like you can do in InDesign? I fear the answer is no, but I thought I'd ask in case someone had an inside tip to show me. See the topic, Running text around graphics in the on-line Help. HTH, --

RE: Text wrap in FrameMaker

2009-12-02 Thread Matt Sullivan
One difference between FM and ID is that FM will only wrap around one side of a column. That means if you want text on both sides of a graphic, you must be using a multicolumn layout -Matt Matt Sullivan GRAFIX Training m...@grafixtraining.com www.grafixtraining.com office 714 960-6840 cell

RE: Long code samples in shaded table

2009-12-02 Thread Fred Ridder
Oops. Right you are, Richard. My bad. But I could have sworn that my approach worked for me in the past. I must be getting early symptoms of what's-his-name's disease... -Fred Ridder Subject: RE: Long code samples in shaded table Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:09:30 -0700 From:

autonumbering in framemaker tables

2009-12-02 Thread Surbhi Singhal
Hello Framers! Good day.. I have a long pin list stretching to 200 pin names, which i plan to describe in tabular format. Is there a way to insert autonumbering in a column of the table, so that i donot have to type in the serial number manually. Regards Surbhi

Upgrading FM from 7.1 to 9

2009-12-02 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
There are much bigger differences than that. Mif2Go is more more techy, much harder to set up, but requires much less (if not zero) cleanup after the conversion. If you go with Mif2Go, I recommend hiring someone to help you set if up and train you to make minor modifications. Just my 2

Upgrading FM from 7.1 to 9

2009-12-02 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:48:30 -0800, "Lea Rush" wrote: >I did a comparison of RH vs. Mif2Go at the beginning of the year, and the >biggest difference I found was that RH supported Natural Language search. >Does Mif2Go support that, or will it? If I understand you correctly, you are talking about

Disappearing anchored frames: strange FrameMaker bug

2009-12-02 Thread Klaus Daube
On 1 Dec 2009 at 9:48, Steve Rickaby wrote: > Yes, but it still shouldn't have disappeared. In this case the following > few pages have a stack of tables and both anchored and floating frames. I once had the problem describe here: http://www.daube.ch/docu/fmaker33.html I guess the same may

Long code samples in shaded table

2009-12-02 Thread Klaus Daube
On 1 Dec 2009 at 9:48, Steve Rickaby wrote: > As an aside, I think a special torment in Hell should be reserved for > software textbook authors who insist on including code samples that are > longer than a single page. If they fall in the text flow there's no > problem, but for some books we set

cross book links in PDF portfolios or combined books

2009-12-02 Thread Fred Wersan
I was experimenting a bit yesterday with PDF Portfolios and combined books. Either method seems like a good way to give readers a central starting point for a doc set. However I noticed that the xref links between books, which work fine between individual book PDFs, did not work within the

Auto-numbering figures across files

2009-12-02 Thread Art Campbell
Heidi, You mention that you've set the numbering properties, but you don't say where you've set them. For a book to increment across component chapters, you must set them in the book, not in a chapter(s). Select all component chapters in the book file, right click, select Numbering, and verify

Auto-numbering figures across files

2009-12-02 Thread Emhoff, Heidi
Ahhh!!! Beautiful!! Thanks, Dave (and everyone else who responded). I didn't know I had to update the book. I knew I was missing something simple. It would have been nice if the FrameMaker help file/manual would have included a note or something reminding us to update the on the page that talks

Long code samples in shaded table

2009-12-02 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 11:28 +0100 2/12/09, Klaus Daube wrote: >How about this idea: >- Convert all lines (paragraphs) of the code example to a table (one paragraph >becoming one >row. >- Use a table format with no horizontal ruling between the rows. >- The automatic breakting between the rows should be no problem.

Disappearing anchored frames: strange FrameMaker bug

2009-12-02 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 09:48 + 1/12/09, I wrote: >As another aside, I just noticed that FrameMaker doesn't increment autonumbers >if the autonumbered paragraphs lie in disjoint text frames that are themselves >within an anchored frame. This is true even if both frames belong to the same >named flow. I wonder

Text wrap in FrameMaker

2009-12-02 Thread Scott White
You can if you take the image out of the frame and is eps with a clipping path, fill set to none. You can see how this works by using one of the images from the clipart folder>balloons and set your runaround to runaround contour. Been a long time since we did it here as a test, but it did work.

Text wrap in FrameMaker

2009-12-02 Thread Stuart Rogers
Brad Simmons wrote: > Is it possible to do Text Wraps around pictures in FrameMaker, just > like you can do in InDesign? > > I fear the answer is "no", but I thought I'd ask in case someone had > an inside tip to show me. See the topic, "Running text around graphics" in the on-line Help. HTH,

Text wrap in FrameMaker

2009-12-02 Thread Matt Sullivan
One difference between FM and ID is that FM will only wrap around one side of a column. That means if you want text on both sides of a graphic, you must be using a multicolumn layout -Matt Matt Sullivan GRAFIX Training matt at grafixtraining.com www.grafixtraining.com office 714 960-6840 cell

Long code samples in shaded table

2009-12-02 Thread Fred Ridder
Oops. Right you are, Richard. My bad. But I could have sworn that my approach worked for me in the past. I must be getting early symptoms of what's-his-name's disease... -Fred Ridder > Subject: RE: Long code samples in shaded table > Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:09:30 -0700 > From: richard.combs