RE: Logging FrameMaker book errors in a text file

2009-07-06 Thread Gordon Furbush
Sun, 6/28/09, Lynne A. Price wrote: > From: Lynne A. Price > Subject: RE: Logging FrameMaker book errors in a text file > To: "Gordon Furbush" , framers@lists.frameusers.com, > "Rick Quatro" > Date: Sunday, June 28, 2009, 4:00 PM > At 02:57 PM 6/22/2

RE: Logging FrameMaker book errors in a text file

2009-07-01 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 08:16 AM 7/1/2009, Les Smalley wrote: >I can't test it at this machine, but I'm 99% sure that shift-return is \n > (as in a "new line") in the find dialog. ­ Les Les, You are correct. Either \n or \r can be used. --Lynne Lynne A. Price Text Structure Consulting, Inc. Specializ

RE: Logging FrameMaker book errors in a text file

2009-07-01 Thread Lynne A. Price
Chris, Wow, I was being terse! Of course, a global find/change would work. I was thinking (but certainly did not describe) a client or script that would make a backup copy, do the global find/change you mention, generate the XML, and delete the backup copy. By the way, \r can be used to en

RE: Logging FrameMaker book errors in a text file

2009-07-01 Thread Les Smalley
I can't test it at this machine, but I'm 99% sure that shift-return is \n  (as in a "new line") in the find dialog. – Les --- On Wed, 7/1/09, Chris Despopoulos wrote:I don't think you need scripts or FDK clients.  Can't you just find/change on the book?  Of course, I forget the find char seq

RE: Logging FrameMaker book errors in a text file

2009-07-01 Thread Chris Despopoulos
I don't think you need scripts or FDK clients. Can't you just find/change on the book? Of course, I forget the find char sequence for a Shift-Return, but I'm fairly sure it exists... (I always like to advocate the low-tech solution if at all possible.) cud Lynne Price says... Gordon, S

Re: Logging FrameMaker book errors in a text file

2009-06-30 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:18:35 -0700, "Lynne A. Price" wrote: >At 01:44 PM 6/29/2009, Gordon Furbush wrote: > >>We're using unstructured FrameMaker and run the XML output >>through a MarkLogic content processing pipeline to render >>the HTML. If you have any work-arounds for unstructured >>Fram

RE: Logging FrameMaker book errors in a text file

2009-06-30 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 01:44 PM 6/29/2009, Gordon Furbush wrote: >Hi Lynne, Looks like your work-arounds apply to structured >FrameMaker. We're using unstructured FrameMaker and run the XML output >through a MarkLogic content processing pipeline to render the HTML. If you >have any work-arounds for unstructured F

RE: Logging FrameMaker book errors in a text file

2009-06-29 Thread Lynne A. Price
Gordon, You are correct that by default FM exports a forced return as a regular return. There are other special characters that FM converts to more usual characters. For example, it exports a discretionary hyphen as a regular hyphen. There are a couple of read/write rules that may help in y

RE: Logging FrameMaker book errors in a text file

2009-06-28 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 02:57 PM 6/22/2009, Gordon Furbush wrote: >Due to a bug in FrameMaker 8 that improperly generates XML, our book build >generates MIF files for all of the FM files. Gordon, What is the XML export bug? Could XSLT provide a workaround? --Lynne Lynne A. Price Text Structure Consulti

RE: Logging FrameMaker book errors in a text file

2009-06-28 Thread Gordon Furbush
, Rick Quatro wrote: > From: Rick Quatro > Subject: RE: Logging FrameMaker book errors in a text file > To: "'Gordon Furbush'" , framers@lists.frameusers.com > Date: Saturday, June 20, 2009, 7:06 AM > FrameMaker Console window messages > are stored in a file c

RE: Logging FrameMaker book errors in a text file

2009-06-20 Thread Rick Quatro
FrameMaker Console window messages are stored in a file called consfile.txt in the FrameMaker folder. So, for any message written there, you can look at this file after the build process completes. For more complete reporting and scripting abilities, take a look at FrameScript (http://www.framescr