Dov, Steve, Steve, Joe, John, et. al -
Thanks for the responses. I have what I need to help my colleague format
an articulate, succinct discussion about why Framemaker should stay.
Thanks again,
TVB
Tammy Van Boening
Senior Technical Writer
Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc.
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All,
I have a colleague who is being told that Framemaker is to go bye-bye very
soon and that she will be needing to use Rational SODA to develop her
documentation. I have googled this tool (as has she) and if they (as in
her powers-that-be) want a developer who likes to write, then this would
My bad - as a technical writer, I should have been much more clear - she
is being told that Framemaker is going bye-bye at her organization because
the powers that be insist Rational Soda will do the same thing - not
Framemaker overall going bye-bye.
Tammy Van Boening
Senior Technical Writer
Do you have another paragraph tag with autonumbering properties that also
use the Series Label of T and that is being used BEFORE you insert the
first table?
Tammy Van Boening
Senior Technical Writer
Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc.
303-328-4420
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Again, since there are so many veteran writers on this and who have
learned through the years to maneuver their way through the editing
process:
I am writing to a major application, that when launched, results in three
other applications being launched and running continuously in the
Well Richard, as you stated:
Unless you're writing for complete computer
novices
You hit the nail right on the head - in some cases we are, in other cases
we aren't. The crux of the matter is that both audiences will have to use
this same guide. Plus, they will so infrequently use these
Thanks for all of the responses. They were all over the board, from
keeping the wording to getting rid of it, to changing the whole layout of
the intro. to each procedure. Ultimately, the sugesstion I liked best was
this:
1. Open X application by double-clicking the X icon in the System
Tray.
Framemaker 7.1, all patches, Windows XP.
I have a 12 file book that whenever generated gives the same single error
message - unresolved cross-reference in a particular file in the book.
When I click on the error message in the Book Error Log, however, I don't
jump to the same location all of
Thank you Fred. Your very articulate statement at the end about
If that's not possible, your SQA rules will just
have to be modified to accept a list of exceptions for
cross-references that are reported as unresolved for a particular
set of show/hide condition settings. Checking for
Donald, Christine, Jeremy, et. al.
LOL! This list makes my day. Believe you me, I would like to be blunt as
some of you were in your emails (the responses were hysterical!), but I
can summarize the responses (in a politically correct format, mind you!)
and go from there.
Thanks for all of
Terry, David, Lin, Fred, Harro, Darrel, Daniel, et. al. (too many names to
mention) -
Thanks for all of your replies and input and suggestions. Sorry Steve,
squinting and looking sideways at the bookmarks didn't help~ Two issues -
1.) One was the flow in Chapter 7 - which was weird because I
Nope, no overrides (thanks for prompting me to check this) and it's all in
a single file. I have just back-tracked and cut out everything between the
good Sec 7.3 and the bad Sec 7.1, then inserted a Sec ID tag after
the good Sec 7.3 and voila, I get a Sec 7.4, so it's something in this
Framemaker 7.1, Windows XP, Adobe Acrobat 7.0.
In my Framemaker source files, I have the following tags set to appear in
my TOC: ChapTitle, SecTitle, Head1, Head2, Head3, and Head4. All tags
appear as expected with the proper indentations, in the proper order, and
with all links working in
LOL! I will try squinting. To answer several questions:
1.) Nope, SecTitle is not in a separate text flow.
2.) Yep, the TOC in my Framemaker source book generates just as expected
with the SecTitles in the proper order under Chapter 7.
3.) Yep, I have tried regenerating my book after solving the
And one more thing - if I leave my SecTitle out of my bookmarks list, all
of my bookmarks for Chapter 7 are still being placed under Chapter 6. Now
I really give.
TVB
Tammy Van Boening
Senior Technical Writer
Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc.
303-328-4420
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All,
If I have a table that spans more than one page, I naturally use this
variable in the Table Title. Well, we have a new editor on board that came
from a journalism background, not software documentation background, and
her mantra is nice, tight copy . . .So, no it's not copy - it's
Bingo - you're like the 10th response along these lines and nope, it's not
in the style guide (it's under development), so it's with this type of
argument that I will submit my request to put this in the style guide.
Thanks Peter, et. al.
TVB
Tammy Van Boening
Senior Technical Writer
Jeppesen
I have a three-column index with three entry levels. (I cannot use only
two levels - I have gone over this with an indexing guru - sigh!) Anyway,
The first level is not indented, the second level is only slightly
indented beneath the first and the third level is slightly indented
beneath the
Fred, Karen, et al.
Thanks for all of the responses. sorry I didn't respond earlier, but just
after I posted this message, my IT guy came down to see if he could
troubleshoot - and at least I was able to reproduce the problem.
Long story short -
I will be humming along making PDFs no problem
All,
I am sure I am breaking list rules by posting this, but. . . this list has
provided so much to me, I thought adding a bit of enjoyment to say thanks
- and with as analytical and precise as a writer's mind is, I am sure that
all of us will deeply appreciate the precision and accuracy that
1.) The URL to the Frameusers archives/search feature - I had this saved
as a favorite, but had a nuclear meltdown on my hard drive and an in the
frustrating process of rebuilding my working environment.
2.) I know this has been asked (by me) and answered (generously by quite a
few on the list
Ok,
Got both of my first two questions answered quickly, so let me continue on
question #2. I am required by the FAA on any documentation that I produce
to mark the blank page at the end of the chapter with the phrase
INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK. Right now, the writers simply manually hit
Ok, if I had expanded on the very way that reference frames work on a page
- oh well, thanks Mark - this works beautifully - (and thanks everyone
else for responding as well . . . it's been a long couple of days
reworking templates and my hard drive/working environment at the same
time!).
TVB
Framemaker 7.1p116, Windows XP (with all patches), Adobe distiller 7.0.7,
Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0.7
I have been using this setup to successfully create post-script files from
Framemaker source files and then distilling the postscript files into pdfs
for quite a while now. When I create
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Debbi, John, Sara, Grant, et. al.
Thanks for the info - in a nutshell:
I don't recall this discussion, but Ctrl-0 is the shortcut to insert
variables, which may be why 0 sticks in your mind. It highlights the
status bar, and you can scroll through until the variable you wish to
use is
Ok,
I have tried searching the archives for this, but the searchable messages
don't go back far enough in time. I distinctly remember a discussion about
what the m and p represented in the Esc m p command for anchored frames.
Fred Ridder also supplied a succinct description of why this
Daniel, Linda, Rick, Kay, Sarah, Grant, Debbi, Fred, et. al.
Thanks for all of the information. Here's a quick summary of what I have
learned both on and off-list:
1.) Esc m p - Escape math position. We inherited this function from its
original purpose for equations in a Framemaker document
Tammy Van Boening
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Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc.
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Since we are blessed to have so many acrobat gurus on this list:
Windows XP
Adobe Acrobat Professional 6.0
MS Word 2002
Inherited a Word doc with 143 pages, 2.99 MB that I need to convert to
PDF. I have done a Save As and renamed to preserve the original and ensure
that I know it is a Word
FWIW:
The error message in it's entirety:
%%[ ProductName: Distiller ]%%
%%[ Error: rangecheck; OffendingCommand: pdfmark; ErrorInfo: View
--nostringval-- ]%%
Stack:
/DOCVIEW
[/FitH]
/View
/UseOutlines
/PageMode
-dict-
%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[
I have a graphic that I created on a Reference page called SectionLine. I
selected this graphic as the Frame Below Pgf for a tag named
SectionHeading. The paragraph tag itself is right-aligned on the page. I
would therefore like this graphic to be right-aligned also. Right now,
when I select
Yea, I thought so too, and I truly have tried this and no go. I have made
the graphic frame right-aligned on the Reference page and then added the
graphic and no matter what I do, it still appears as left-aligned on the
body page beneath the paragraph tag. I am stumped.
Tammy Van Boening
Thank you Lester!!
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303-328-4420
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Framemaker 7.1 on Windows XP, Adobe Acrobat Professional 6.0.0.5
In my Framemaker maker book, I have the following tags in my TOC that I
want as bookmarks in my Adobe PDF:
TableTitle (this is auto-numbered with List of Tables)
FigureTitle (this is auto-numbered with List of Figures)
No, thanks for asking. I do not have GlossaryTitleTOC selected for the
PDF. I have checked three times now - it's GlossaryTitle only.
Tammy Van Boening
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Aviation Courseware Development
Jeppesen Sanderson, Inc.
303-328-4420
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What a lovely undocumented feature - but thanks Fred, you nailed the
problem.
TVB
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Hi all,
Trying to see if I can post to the list,
so I apologize in advance for the bandwith. Up until 11/29, I was able
to post messages to the list and receive messages from the list and then
boom, nada, nothing, zip. Lisa B and her crew at her end are trying to
figure out what is going on and
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