At 15:34 -0600 5/2/07, Doug wrote:
Yes, for some reason my Right master page lost it's A name/was renamed
to HIDDEN. And everytime I imported a new text inset it reapplied the
HIDDEN text frame name of all instances of the Right body page.
Bummer. I fixed it by renaming the master page and then
It might be humorous - and informative at the same time - if some
Framer were to make a compilation of such horror stories. Being made
aware of bad practices can be helpful - even to those of us who are
(we hope) less incompetent.
My favorites were a pair of manuals I inherited from a
Hi all,
Still finding my feet with Structured Framemaker.. is there a way to turn
off Element Boundaries when generating a PDF (save as PDF option)??
The boundaries are great to work with but my reviewers don't like them. How
do I get rid of them across an entire book before PDFing?
I've
Hi
I use unstructured Framemaker 7.2:
I know that you can define chapter TOCs by using XREFs in a table. This is
however a bit tedious when your Heading/topics move around.
Right now I generate a standalone chapter TOC which I import by reference and
set to condition tag Paper. It would
Yes Peter, and if I keep the files open I can generate a PDF without the
boundaries showing.
But if I hide the boundaries, close the file, and re-open it, the boundaries
re-appear after a brief (flicker) delay.
Same goes if I hide boundaries at the book level. Opening the file itself
causes the
I have a doc with a lot of tables. I want to change the row height min
and max values of all tables rather than just one table at a time.
Does anyone have a technique or a utility to do this?
Solved. I had to do this because I converted a large PDF with lots of
tables to a Word doc
and
This is a bit off-topic, but for what it is worth, I just finished my own
evaluation of OpenOffice.org Writer. While it has a number of
FrameMaker-like features, it is in no position to pose as serious
competition to FrameMaker - unless you:
- Can't afford FrameMaker (OOo Writer is
Hi all,
Just wondering how everyone else handles code samples. I generally just
put them in a big one-cell table, which works well...unless the code
sample runs into the next page. I could just put it all in graphic
frame, but I like the control a table offers (and how it converts to
HTML via
Hi Neil,
What advantage do you get by putting the code in a table? Are you putting a
background color or shading behind the code? Thanks.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com
Hi all,
Just wondering how everyone else handles code samples. I generally just
put them
Yes- shade the background and have a border around it. Actually usually
just the border. I want it to stand out...it is pretty standard in
sample configurations for those of us in the networking world.
-Original Message-
From: Rick Quatro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February
At 11:29 -0500 6/2/07, Neil Tubb wrote:
Just wondering how everyone else handles code samples. I generally just
put them in a big one-cell table, which works well...unless the code
sample runs into the next page. I could just put it all in graphic
frame, but I like the control a table offers (and
I used to put code in graphic frames. Since moving to HTML delivery,
however, they are in the text flow with a custom paragraph format.
At 11:29 AM 2/6/2007, Neil Tubb wrote:
Hi all,
Just wondering how everyone else handles code samples.
I use a one-column table with each line of code in its own cell, so it
breaks cleanly.
Easy to import too.
Art
On 2/6/07, Neil Tubb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Just wondering how everyone else handles code samples. I generally just
put them in a big one-cell table, which works
At 16:42 + 6/2/07, Steve Rickaby wrote:
Text insets. Anything else is hopeless across page boundaries.
I should point out that it's normally a requirement here for the code to be
updatable outside of FrameMaker, hence text insets. Art's method therefore
would not work here.
--
Steve
I think it is very common for software users to rise just to the
level of competence where they can do their tasks and never progress
beyond that level.
Isn't that a derivative of the Peter principle?
-Gillian
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Neil,
Here is another way to do it:
http://www.frameexpert.com/Demos/ShadeParagraphs.htm
The script adds a shaded, ruled rectangle behind the code paragraphs. This
avoids the inconvience of adding code in tables or frames. This is only
practical because the script is doing the work.
Hi, David, et. al.
David Taylor wrote:
they are in the text flow with a custom paragraph format.
This is how I do it. In a fixed-width font (Courier) for the text
to line up.
I use two paragraph formats ... one for the lines of the code and
one for the last line (for the extra space to the
This kind of conditional formatting is one of the big benefits of structured
FrameMaker.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com
Sidebar: here is where conditional paragraph spacing control would
be awesome! If the spacing could be set like if the next paragraph
format
Art Campbell wrote:
I use a one-column table with each line of code in its own
cell, so it breaks cleanly.
Easy to import too.
Steve Rickaby wrote:
I should point out that it's normally a requirement here for
the code to be updatable outside of FrameMaker, hence text
insets. Art's
At 11:27 -0700 6/2/07, Combs, Richard wrote:
Actually, you can use Art's method with text insets. Briefly:
Wow. This looks stupendously clever. I will experiment with it, and if my head
does not explode, try it out on the next application of code insets.
(I also need something simple enough
Linda G. Gallaher wrote:
I use a plug-in, Index Tools Professional
(http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html) to let me use
variables in the index entries. It's US$20, I believe.
Scott Prentice wrote:
We do have a plugin, MarkerTools, that lets you use variables within
markers ..
At 15:34 -0600 5/2/07, Doug wrote:
>Yes, for some reason my Right master page lost it's A name/was renamed
>to HIDDEN. And everytime I imported a new text inset it reapplied the
>HIDDEN text frame name of all instances of the Right body page.
>Bummer. I fixed it by renaming the master page and
It might be humorous - and informative at the same time - if some
Framer were to make a compilation of such horror stories. Being made
aware of bad practices can be helpful - even to those of us who are
(we hope) less incompetent.
My favorites were a pair of manuals I inherited from a
Hi all,
Still finding my feet with Structured Framemaker.. is there a way to turn
off Element Boundaries when generating a PDF (save as PDF option)??
The boundaries are great to work with but my reviewers don't like them. How
do I get rid of them across an entire book before PDFing?
I've tried
Hi, Gordon:
Have you tried opening all the files in the book, then applying View >
Hide Element Boundaries, before generating the PDF?
HTH
Regards,
Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices
Gordon McLean wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Still finding my feet with Structured Framemaker.. is there
Hi
I use unstructured Framemaker 7.2:
I know that you can define chapter TOCs by using XREFs in a table. This is
however a bit tedious when your Heading/topics move around.
Right now I generate a standalone chapter TOC which I import by reference and
set to condition tag "Paper". It would be
Yes Peter, and if I keep the files open I can generate a PDF without the
boundaries showing.
But if I hide the boundaries, close the file, and re-open it, the boundaries
re-appear after a brief (flicker) delay.
Same goes if I hide boundaries at the book level. Opening the file itself
causes the
> I have a doc with a lot of tables. I want to change the row height min
> and max values of all tables rather than just one table at a time.
> Does anyone have a technique or a utility to do this?
Solved. I had to do this because I converted a large PDF with lots of
tables to a Word doc
This is a bit off-topic, but for what it is worth, I just finished my own
evaluation of OpenOffice.org Writer. While it has a number of
FrameMaker-like features, it is in no position to pose as serious
competition to FrameMaker - unless you:
- Can't afford FrameMaker (OOo Writer is
Hi all,
Just wondering how everyone else handles code samples. I generally just
put them in a big one-cell table, which works well...unless the code
sample runs into the next page. I could just put it all in graphic
frame, but I like the control a table offers (and how it converts to
HTML via
Hi Neil,
What advantage do you get by putting the code in a table? Are you putting a
background color or shading behind the code? Thanks.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com
Hi all,
Just wondering how everyone else handles code samples. I generally just
put them in
Yes- shade the background and have a border around it. Actually usually
just the border. I want it to stand out...it is pretty standard in
sample configurations for those of us in the networking world.
-Original Message-
From: Rick Quatro [mailto:frameexp...@truevine.net]
Sent: Tuesday,
At 11:29 -0500 6/2/07, Neil Tubb wrote:
>Just wondering how everyone else handles code samples. I generally just
>put them in a big one-cell table, which works well...unless the code
>sample runs into the next page. I could just put it all in graphic
>frame, but I like the control a table offers
I used to put code in graphic frames. Since moving to HTML delivery,
however, they are in the text flow with a custom paragraph format.
At 11:29 AM 2/6/2007, Neil Tubb wrote:
>Hi all,
>Just wondering how everyone else handles code samples.
Hi, Gordon:
It sounds as if you're not saving the files in the state you want them
to open in. The display of element boundaries and tags, as well as text
symbols, and borders, and zoom percentage, are all saved with files. A
quick way to manipulate multiple files is to use Shift+File. When
I use a one-column table with each line of code in its own cell, so it
breaks cleanly.
Easy to import too.
Art
On 2/6/07, Neil Tubb wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> Just wondering how everyone else handles code samples. I generally just
> put them in a big one-cell table, which works well...unless the
At 16:42 + 6/2/07, Steve Rickaby wrote:
>Text insets. Anything else is hopeless across page boundaries.
I should point out that it's normally a requirement here for the code to be
updatable outside of FrameMaker, hence text insets. Art's method therefore
would not work here.
--
Steve
>>I think it is very common for software users to rise just to the
level of competence where they can do their tasks and never progress
beyond that level.
Isn't that a derivative of the Peter principle?
-Gillian
-Original Message-
From:
Hi Neil,
Here is another way to do it:
http://www.frameexpert.com/Demos/ShadeParagraphs.htm
The script adds a shaded, ruled rectangle behind the code paragraphs. This
avoids the inconvience of adding code in tables or frames. This is only
practical because the script is doing the work.
Rick
Hi, David, et. al.
David Taylor wrote:
> they are in the text flow with a custom paragraph format.
This is how I do it. In a fixed-width font (Courier) for the text
to line up.
I use two paragraph formats ... one for the lines of the "code" and
one for the last line (for the extra space to the
This kind of conditional formatting is one of the big benefits of structured
FrameMaker.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com
> Sidebar: here is where conditional paragraph spacing control would
> be awesome! If the spacing could be set like "if the next paragraph
>
Hi, Rick.
Rick Quatro wrote:
> This kind of conditional formatting is one of the big benefits of
> structured FrameMaker.
Ah! I did not know I could do it there.
I have been putting off converting all my documents to structured
FrameMaker - since I am the only author on them, it has been easy
Art Campbell wrote:
> I use a one-column table with each line of code in its own
> cell, so it breaks cleanly.
> Easy to import too.
Steve Rickaby wrote:
> I should point out that it's normally a requirement here for
> the code to be updatable outside of FrameMaker, hence text
> insets.
At 11:27 -0700 6/2/07, Combs, Richard wrote:
>Actually, you can use Art's method with text insets. Briefly:
Wow. This looks stupendously clever. I will experiment with it, and if my head
does not explode, try it out on the next application of code insets.
(I also need something simple enough
Linda G. Gallaher wrote:
> I use a plug-in, Index Tools Professional
> (http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html) to let me use
> variables in the index entries. It's US$20, I believe.
Scott Prentice wrote:
> We do have a plugin, MarkerTools, that lets you use variables within
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