Re: Searching for empty paragraphs

2007-10-05 Thread Yves Barbion
Hi Pat, Mekon has a plug-in called mTools. It can remove empty paragraphs, but I'm not sure what it does with the formatting of the paragraphs you want to keep. It has been a while since I've used it. You can find more information about mTools here:

Re: Searching for empty paragraphs

2007-10-05 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 08:45 +0200 5/10/07, Yves Barbion wrote: Mekon has a plug-in called mTools. It can remove empty paragraphs, but I'm not sure what it does with the formatting of the paragraphs you want to keep. It has been a while since I've used it. You can find more information about mTools here:

Re: Frame 8 - Acrobat 8 crash

2007-10-05 Thread Bill Swallow
Ah. I haven't the means of digging into each tool to find the breaking point. I just know that FM8 + Acrobat 8.1 = burp. ;-) Thanks Dov! On 10/5/07, Dov Isaacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Based upon what we know, it is highly unlikely that the Acrobat 8.1 update has anything to do with the

Re: Searching for empty paragraphs

2007-10-05 Thread Stuart Rogers
Pat Christenson wrote: Hi all - For years I've used the following wildcat search string to locate empty paragraphs: ^\p (start of line followed by paragraph ending) It stopped working a couple releases ago (I believe in FM 7, maybe earlier). Any suggestions? If this doesn't work in FM,

RE: Searching for empty paragraphs

2007-10-05 Thread Jon Harvey
I've changed ^P^P to ^P in Word documents that are hundreds of pages long. I've found it to be pretty reliable. If I recall correctly, you can also use ^13^13 to ^13. Right now, I can't remember the difference between ^p and ^13 but I know there is one. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: Searching for empty paragraphs

2007-10-05 Thread Pinkham, Jim
The approach Stuart describes for Word will not mess up formatting. I've used the following Word macro for the past several years to clean up extra paragraphs and extra spaces. YMMV, but in Word 2000 and Word 2003, it has worked well for me. It may appear to have a few extra iterations of the

Re: Searching for empty paragraphs

2007-10-05 Thread Stuart Rogers
Jon Harvey wrote: I've changed ^P^P to ^P in Word documents that are hundreds of pages long. I've found it to be pretty reliable. If I recall correctly, you can also use ^13^13 to ^13. Right now, I can't remember the difference between ^p and ^13 but I know there is one. Didn't know you could

RE: Searching for empty paragraphs

2007-10-05 Thread Pinkham, Jim
Word uses ^l (also accessible from the Special tab of the expanded Find and Replace menu) for what it calls a manual line break. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stuart Rogers Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 11:07 AM To: Jon Harvey Cc:

Re: Frame 8 - Acrobat 8 crash

2007-10-05 Thread Joel
A little more testing and here is where I am at: [1] Once or twice I was able to save a non XML document as a PDF if I un-checked Generate Tagged PDF. Now that isn't working again. [2] I have another document authored using elements/XML, and I cannot save it as a PDF with Generate Tagged PDF

Re: Frame 8 - Acrobat 8 crash

2007-10-05 Thread Joel
I meant to say that if it consistently crashes when attempting to generate a PDF, what good is it? On 10/5/07, Joel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A little more testing and here is where I am at: [1] Once or twice I was able to save a non XML document as a PDF if I un-checked Generate Tagged PDF.

Re: Searching for empty paragraphs

2007-10-05 Thread Anne Smith
Hi Pat, In Word, replacing all ^p^p with ^p should work. Regards, Anne Smith Senior Technical Writer, RD Paradigm 820 Gessner #400 Houston, Texas 77024 USA 713-393-4989 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.paradigmgeo.com

Frame in Windows emulation

2007-10-05 Thread Graeme Worth
Thanks to those who replied to my request. I'm somewhat more confident of continuing given your input. Graeme ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank

Dictionary style layout in Frame

2007-10-05 Thread Tina Ricks
Hello Framers, I am laying out a print book with a reference section at the end, which includes the transcripts of 12,000 sequentially numbered PowerPoint slides (yes, that's 12,000, it will be several hundred pages). I'd like to do a dictionary style layout. I've got it in two columns, with

ANN: HTML to FrameMaker Case Study

2007-10-05 Thread Rick Quatro
Hello Framers, I have long used FrameScript and MSXML to import XML into unstructured FrameMaker files. MSXML is great because it uses standard XML technologies such as XPath and XSLT to access and manipulate XML files. FrameScript can drive MSXML using its EActiveXObject object. There have

Missing some bookmarks in PDF

2007-10-05 Thread Lin Surasky
Hi all- We're using FM 7.2p158 unstructured, on Windows XP Pro 2002 SP-2. One of my colleagues is producing several books for an upcoming release. Last week, he came to me for help with one of them -- seems that not all the bookmarks generated properly. The books (and therefore the bookmarks)

Re: Dictionary style layout in Frame

2007-10-05 Thread Art Campbell
If it was me, I'd use that as the chapter name tag and have that start each of the chapters/files in the book. In the paragraph designer: * On the Basic Tab, set alignment to Center. * Pick a big point size for the letter. * On the Pagination tab, activate the checkbox to run across all columns.

Re: Dictionary style layout in Frame

2007-10-05 Thread Kenneth C. Benson
Tina Ricks wrote: When I go from G to H in a dictionary, for example, there is a horizontal separator across both columns and a great big letter H, and then the H words start. I can't do this with master pages, because the separator needs to flow with the text. Does that make any sense? If this

Re: Find and change smart quotes for regular quotes

2007-10-05 Thread Stuart Rogers
Theresa de Valence wrote: Hello Framers, I need to paste my portions of a book into Access which is unhappy about smart quotes. Could anyone tell me how to search/replace those smart quotes as regular quotes? Theresa, In the Find dialog box, search for \` and replace with \g and search for

Re: Dictionary style layout in Frame

2007-10-05 Thread Art Campbell
Ken, I think the tag method would work with flowing text, too, but I wouldn't want to see the size of a single file after you imported 12,000 slides. It'd take a while to do much. Like to move from page to page... That's why I prefaced my message with I would. ... break it into 26 files. ;- )

RE: Find and change smart quotes for regular quotes

2007-10-05 Thread Theresa de Valence
Oops! \g produces: Last night instead of Last night Ideas? Thanks, Theresa Theresa de Valence wrote: Hello Framers, I need to paste my portions of a book into Access which is unhappy about smart quotes. Could anyone tell me how to search/replace those smart quotes as regular quotes?

RE: Find and change smart quotes for regular quotes

2007-10-05 Thread Theresa de Valence
Sorry! The characters did not survive the post to the list. \g produces a character which _looks like_ two commas. Any idea what it is? Any idea how I get Frame to replace with what the post to the List achieved? Thanks. From: Theresa de Valence Oops! \g produces: Last night instead of Last

Re: Find and change smart quotes for regular quotes

2007-10-05 Thread Stuart Rogers
Theresa de Valence wrote: Sorry! The characters did not survive the post to the list. \g produces a character which _looks like_ two commas. Any idea what it is? Any idea how I get Frame to replace with what the post to the List achieved? Thanks. From: Theresa de Valence Oops! \g produces:

Searching for empty paragraphs

2007-10-05 Thread Yves Barbion
Hi Pat, Mekon has a plug-in called "mTools". It can remove empty paragraphs, but I'm not sure what it does with the formatting of the paragraphs you want to keep. It has been a while since I've used it. You can find more information about mTools here:

Searching for empty paragraphs

2007-10-05 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 08:45 +0200 5/10/07, Yves Barbion wrote: >Mekon has a plug-in called "mTools". It can remove empty paragraphs, but I'm >not sure what it does with the formatting of the paragraphs you want to >keep. It has been a while since I've used it. > >You can find more information about mTools here: >

Frame 8 - Acrobat 8 crash

2007-10-05 Thread Bill Swallow
Ah. I haven't the means of digging into each tool to find the breaking point. I just know that FM8 + Acrobat 8.1 = burp. ;-) Thanks Dov! On 10/5/07, Dov Isaacs wrote: > Based upon what we know, it is highly unlikely that the Acrobat 8.1 > update has anything to do with the problems of "save as

Searching for empty paragraphs

2007-10-05 Thread Stuart Rogers
Pat Christenson wrote: > Hi all - > > For years I've used the following wildcat search string to locate empty > paragraphs: > > ^\p > (start of line followed by paragraph ending) > > It stopped working a couple releases ago (I believe in FM 7, maybe > earlier). Any suggestions? > > If this

Searching for empty paragraphs

2007-10-05 Thread Jon Harvey
I've changed ^P^P to ^P in Word documents that are hundreds of pages long. I've found it to be pretty reliable. If I recall correctly, you can also use ^13^13 to ^13. Right now, I can't remember the difference between ^p and ^13 but I know there is one. -Original Message- From:

Searching for empty paragraphs

2007-10-05 Thread Pinkham, Jim
The approach Stuart describes for Word will not mess up formatting. I've used the following Word macro for the past several years to clean up extra paragraphs and extra spaces. YMMV, but in Word 2000 and Word 2003, it has worked well for me. It may appear to have a few extra iterations of the

Searching for empty paragraphs

2007-10-05 Thread Stuart Rogers
Jon Harvey wrote: > I've changed ^P^P to ^P in Word documents that are hundreds of pages > long. I've found it to be pretty reliable. If I recall correctly, you > can also use ^13^13 to ^13. Right now, I can't remember the difference > between ^p and ^13 but I know there is one. Didn't know you

Searching for empty paragraphs

2007-10-05 Thread Pinkham, Jim
Word uses "^l" (also accessible from the Special tab of the expanded Find and Replace menu) for what it calls a "manual line break". -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+jim.pinkham=voith@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+jim.pinkham=voith.com at lists.frameusers.com]

Frame in Windows emulation

2007-10-05 Thread Graeme Worth
Thanks to those who replied to my request. I'm somewhat more confident of continuing given your input. Graeme

Frame 8 - Acrobat 8 crash

2007-10-05 Thread Joel
A little more testing and here is where I am at: [1] Once or twice I was able to save a non XML document as a PDF if I un-checked "Generate Tagged PDF." Now that isn't working again. [2] I have another document authored using elements/XML, and I cannot save it as a PDF with "Generate Tagged PDF"

Frame 8 - Acrobat 8 crash

2007-10-05 Thread Joel
I meant to say that if it consistently crashes when attempting to generate a PDF, what good is it? On 10/5/07, Joel wrote: > > A little more testing and here is where I am at: > [1] Once or twice I was able to save a non XML document as a PDF if I > un-checked "Generate Tagged PDF." Now that

Searching for empty paragraphs

2007-10-05 Thread Anne Smith
Hi Pat, In Word, replacing all ^p^p with ^p should work. Regards, Anne Smith Senior Technical Writer, R Paradigm 820 Gessner #400 Houston, Texas 77024 USA 713-393-4989 asmith at paradigmgeo.com www.paradigmgeo.com

Dictionary style layout in Frame

2007-10-05 Thread Tina Ricks
Hello Framers, I am laying out a print book with a reference section at the end, which includes the transcripts of 12,000 sequentially numbered PowerPoint slides (yes, that's 12,000, it will be several hundred pages). I'd like to do a dictionary style layout. I've got it in two columns, with

ANN: HTML to FrameMaker Case Study

2007-10-05 Thread Rick Quatro
Hello Framers, I have long used FrameScript and MSXML to import XML into unstructured FrameMaker files. MSXML is great because it uses standard XML technologies such as XPath and XSLT to access and manipulate XML files. FrameScript can "drive" MSXML using its EActiveXObject object. There have

Missing some bookmarks in PDF

2007-10-05 Thread Lin Surasky
Hi all- We're using FM 7.2p158 unstructured, on Windows XP Pro 2002 SP-2. One of my colleagues is producing several books for an upcoming release. Last week, he came to me for help with one of them -- seems that not all the bookmarks generated properly. The books (and therefore the bookmarks)

Dictionary style layout in Frame

2007-10-05 Thread Art Campbell
If it was me, I'd use that as the "chapter name" tag and have that start each of the chapters/files in the book. In the paragraph designer: * On the Basic Tab, set alignment to Center. * Pick a big point size for the letter. * On the Pagination tab, activate the checkbox to "run across all

Dictionary style layout in Frame

2007-10-05 Thread Kenneth C. Benson
Tina Ricks wrote: > When I go from G to H in a dictionary, for > example, there is a horizontal separator across both columns and a great big > letter H, and then the H words start. I can't do this with master pages, > because the separator needs to "flow" with the text. Does that make any >

Find and change smart quotes for regular quotes

2007-10-05 Thread Theresa de Valence
Hello Framers, I need to paste my portions of a book into Access which is unhappy about smart quotes. Could anyone tell me how to search/replace those smart quotes as regular quotes? Thanks, Theresa de Valence P.S. I am running Frame 7.2b.

partial page graphic lines won't print - RESEND

2007-10-05 Thread Casher, Jeffrey
Hello framers, I sent this email to the framers list on Wednesday and only received one response. Does anybody have any other suggestions on how I might get the lines in my partial page graphic to print? I'm working with Frame 7.0 in a structured document. I have two graphics in the

Dictionary style layout in Frame

2007-10-05 Thread Art Campbell
Ken, I think the tag method would work with flowing text, too, but I wouldn't want to see the size of a single file after you imported 12,000 slides. It'd take a while to do much. Like to move from page to page... That's why I prefaced my message with "I would." ... break it into 26 files. ;- )

Find and change smart quotes for regular quotes

2007-10-05 Thread Stuart Rogers
Theresa de Valence wrote: > Hello Framers, > > I need to paste my portions of a book into Access which is unhappy about > smart quotes. Could anyone tell me how to search/replace those smart > quotes as regular quotes? > Theresa, In the Find dialog box, search for \` and replace with \g and

Dictionary style layout in Frame

2007-10-05 Thread Kenneth C. Benson
Art Campbell wrote: > I think the tag method would work with flowing text, too, but I > wouldn't want to see the size of a single file after you imported > 12,000 slides. It'd take a while to do much. Like to move from page to > page... You're right, Art, straddle heads can interrupt a 2-column

Dictionary style layout in Frame

2007-10-05 Thread Combs, Richard
Tina Ricks wrote: > I am laying out a print book with a reference section at the > end, which includes the transcripts of 12,000 sequentially > numbered PowerPoint slides (yes, that's 12,000, it will be > several hundred pages). I'd like to do a dictionary style layout. > > I've got it in two

Find and change smart quotes for regular quotes

2007-10-05 Thread Theresa de Valence
Oops! \g produces: "Last night instead of "Last night Ideas? Thanks, Theresa Theresa de Valence wrote: > Hello Framers, > > I need to paste my portions of a book into Access which is unhappy about > smart quotes. Could anyone tell me how to search/replace those smart > quotes as regular

Find and change smart quotes for regular quotes

2007-10-05 Thread Theresa de Valence
Sorry! The characters did not survive the post to the list. \g produces a character which _looks like_ two commas. Any idea what it is? Any idea how I get Frame to replace with what the post to the List achieved? Thanks. From: Theresa de Valence Oops! \g produces: "Last night instead of "Last

Find and change smart quotes for regular quotes

2007-10-05 Thread Stuart Rogers
Theresa de Valence wrote: > Sorry! The characters did not survive the post to the list. > \g produces a character which _looks like_ two commas. > Any idea what it is? Any idea how I get Frame to replace with what the > post to the List achieved? > Thanks. > > From: Theresa de Valence > Oops! >