Re: master pages for table of contents

2011-04-29 Thread Prithvi Diwanji
thanks for the reply. i will re-state the problem given that i have a chapter template, how do i go about creating a toc template (to answer your question as to why, i was following a tutorial given to me by someone, but obviously i am doing something wrong somewhere..) thanks On Mon, Apr

Re: master pages for table of contents

2011-04-29 Thread Prithvi Diwanji
hello bill, thanks for the reply. i will try this. the thing is: my chapter has a first, right and left page. does all of this get applied when i import page layouts from chapter to toc? only the right and left seem to get applied. i want the first page of the TOC to have a text frame that is

RE: Framemaker 10 save to Framemaker 8

2011-04-29 Thread Michael Pearson
FM10 won't save to FM8 binary via the Save dialog, but it can do it via ExtendScript (FM10's new built-in scripting language). HTH, Mike From: art.campb...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:40:32 -0400 Subject: Re: Framemaker 10 save to Framemaker 8 To: bruce.macart...@vsea.com CC:

table of contents loses formatting....

2011-04-29 Thread Prithvi Diwanji
thank you, all. sharon, your solution worked... thanks to your help i have been able to fix most problems. one niggling problem remains: every time i generate the TOC, format the TOC styles etc in the reference page, it works. now if i close the TOC file and update the book, and then re-open

Re: Extracting art from Word docs

2011-04-29 Thread Maike Roeder
Hi Tom, That's a good question, managing images is very important. For a long time it's possible to manage images in FrameMaker by referencing copied graphics, exporting images to a folder, or doing book transfers and selecting a folder for the graphics. Today we also manage graphics between

FrameMaker to RoboHelp XREF in WebHelp TOC output

2011-04-29 Thread Steve Kaufman
Hi, I am trying to link a FrameMaker book into RoboHelp to create an online help system. When I have RoboHelp auto-create a Table of Contents, the section headings (created from the bookmarks) are named like: XREF_56898_About_Application I need to eliminate the XREF_56898 from the section

TOC listing mix-up

2011-04-29 Thread Prithvi Diwanji
hello all thanks for your inputs so far. i have managed most of the TOC design and troubleshooting. but here is a curious thing: in the TOC, after some chapters, suddenly the *first *heading 1 of chapter n+1 gets listed as the *last *heading of chapter n. all chapters are based on the same

Re: table of contents loses formatting....

2011-04-29 Thread Prithvi Diwanji
can someone give me some insight into this? i have read practically everything that i could search for.. the changes made to the reference page of the toc do not stick after updating the book.n if the book is: -- title -- toc -- chapter1 -- chapter2 after i update the book, the toc takes

FrameMaker 8 and saving documents that include conrefs

2011-04-29 Thread Abungu, Salome (TTI Mpls)
Hi! I'm new to using structured FrameMaker and DITA. I have a question about conrefs. When I include a conref into a document (let's say the document type is a topic), it shows up perfectly as it should. However, when I save the document and reopen it disappears. Is this normal ? Any help is

Re: table of contents loses formatting....

2011-04-29 Thread Prithvi Diwanji
thanks. yes, i can confirm that i did not do any hand formatting. i created the appropriate tab stops using the para designer etc. i followed the correct steps to format the TOC entries on the reference page. what i am talking about when i say lose formatting is a total loss of all changes made

Key Repeat rate?

2011-04-29 Thread Alex Escott
Hi all, new to Frame and wondering what is up with the key repeat rate... it doesn't match the system's rate at all, and is painfully slow. Any way to fix this? Thanks - A ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com.

Re: TOC listing mix-up

2011-04-29 Thread srogers
On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 15:16:02 +0530, Prithvi Diwanji prithvi.diwa...@druva.com wrote: hello all thanks for your inputs so far. i have managed most of the TOC design and troubleshooting. but here is a curious thing: in the TOC, after some chapters, suddenly the FIRSTĀ  heading 1 of chapter n+1

Re: table of contents loses formatting....

2011-04-29 Thread srogers
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:23:14 +0530, Prithvi Diwanji prithvi.diwa...@druva.com wrote: thanks. yes, i can confirm that i did not do any hand formatting. i created the appropriate tab stops using the para designer etc. i followed the correct steps to format the TOC entries on the reference page.

TOC listing mix-up

2011-04-29 Thread Prithvi Diwanji
template. how do i fix this? regards > > > -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20110429/8e05b35c/attachment.html>