Re: [Framers] Searching for content in FrameMaker files

At 10:50 -0700 7/5/16, Robert Lauriston wrote: >Is there a search utility that knows how to parse .fm files so you >could find multi-word strings reliably? Could PDFs also be an intermediate? Tiresome to produce, agreed, but if a searchable textbase is mandatory... -- Steve

Re: [Framers] Searching for content in FrameMaker files

On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Craig Ede wrote: > I suppose one might be searching on a phrase so breaks between words with > intervening mif tags, etc would pose a problem. Sentences are often split > in Mifs. > Where also had problems where inserted $Header$ variables

Re: [Framers] Searching for content in FrameMaker files

Is there a search utility that knows how to parse .fm files so you could find multi-word strings reliably? One kludge is to search for all the .fm files on your drive and drop them in a new book. Then you can use the Find command to search all the files in the book.

Re: [Framers] Searching for content in FrameMaker files

I suppose one might be searching on a phrase so breaks between words with intervening mif tags, etc would pose a problem. Sentences are often split in Mifs. Where also had problems where inserted $Header$ variables from RCS were mucked with by Mif. (It split the variable result because of

Re: [Framers] Searching for content in FrameMaker files

Agent Ransack and other good search utilities don't need to decode an .fm file to find individual words. If you look at an .fm file in a text editor, you can see that the text is not compressed or encrypted. There are all kinds of control characters mixed in, so if you're searching for a

Re: [Framers] Searching for content in FrameMaker files

I haven't seen that. Unless there's a tag or marker or something in the middle of a word it's always intact in an .fm file or exported .mif. On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Craig Ede wrote: > Even with MIF the text strings are often split in unknowable ways so search >

Re: [Framers] Searching for content in FrameMaker files

Even with MIF the text strings are often split in unknowable ways so search would be haphazard anyway. Craig From: Framers on behalf of Fred Ridder Sent: Saturday, May 7,

Re: [Framers] Searching for content in FrameMaker files

Windows' search is garbage. I use Agent Ransack, a free search tool. On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Austin Meredith wrote: >I don't seem to be able to persuade the File Explorer of Windows 10 to >find Boolean content inside FrameMaker2015 files. I've tried all the >

Re: [Framers] Autonumbering for a Fourth Level Paragraph

I don't bother zeroing out subheadings. They default to zero automatically whenever a higher level is changed. Here is my typically chapnum setup: Heading1: H:<$chapnum>.0\t Heading2: H:<$chapnum>.\t Heading3: H: <$chapnum>..\t Heading4: H:<$chapnum>...\t

Re: [Framers] Searching for content in FrameMaker files

You're not doing anything wrong. It's just the way Windows works. The ability to find text strings in the content of a file depends on Windows knowing how to decode the file (if it's a binary type) and parse the contents. Windows knows how to parse most common non-proprietary file formats, like

[Framers] Searching for content in FrameMaker files

I don't seem to be able to persuade the File Explorer of Windows 10 to find Boolean content inside FrameMaker2015 files. I've tried all the obvious tricks such as making certain that the file suffixes ".fm" and ".frame" are included in the indexing list, and deleting and rebuilding