Re: Searching in text insets

[Steve Rickaby]

At 21:19 -0800 12/12/06, Whites wrote:

Today, from within the main document, I searched on a string in a text inset 
and was surprised to find that the FM search function did not find it. Am I 
being obtuse (happens a lot) or is this the way things are supposed to be? Any 
help will be appreciated.

You are not being obtuse: FrameMaker doesn't look in text insets. The same 
thing is true of spell-checking text insets.

Workaround: build an Ur-book that contains all your insets, and 
search/spell-check in that.

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RE: TrackChanges and Multiple Undo

[David Creamer]

 A year or two ago I installed TrackChanges on FrameMaker 7.0p579.
 Afterward FrameMaker began crashing when I edited text. Never
 had done so previously. I eventually figured out that
 deleting words with Ctrl-Delete was causing the FrameMaker
 failures. After fruitless troubleshooting and research,
 including a note to this list, I happened to remove
 TrackChanges. No crashes since then.

One or two years ago is a long time for software (well... except for major
FrameMaker upgrades!). Control-Delete is not crashing Frame 7.2 now, using
the beta 1.9 version.

 There is no fix and it is still unstable. It caused my Frame 7.0 to
 crash multiple times. I called the company. They have no intention of
 fixing it since everyone is upgrading to 7.2 and getting multiple undo
 from Adobe. 
 
Multi-Undo is a separate product from Track Changes, but it appears you are
referring to both products. (Perhaps you purchased a bundle?)
Could it be that problem was with Multi-Undo and *not* Track Changes?

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Can an Element be a Container and a System Variable

[Catudal Rousseau]

Hello Framers:

Can an element be a container and a system variable at the same time? I
would like to generate the Chapter-Section-Subject in the footer of the page 
from the
attributes of the subject element.

If this is possible an example would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Louise

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RE: Searching in text insets

[Daniel Emory]

--- Fred Ridder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Supposed to be could be argued, but it certainly
 is the way
 things *are*. Text insets are treated as black boxes
 by the
 Find/Change operation.
==
Putting text insets in text frames (each with a
different text flow name) within reference pages in
the same document is one way to preserve the
find/change and spell checking capability for text
insets. Of course, this solution only works when the
entire text inset content will fit within a single
reference page.




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RE: Cross reference keyboard shortcut

[David Creamer]

 You can also use the following key combination, which I find a little
 easier: ALT+s  c
 
For general menu access, I also prefer the old Windows (DOS?) Alt key
shortcut over any similar Esc shortcuts. It is easier to remember and it
works in virtually any program.

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Re: Cross reference keyboard shortcut

[Peter Gold]

Hi, David:

David Creamer wrote:

You can also use the following key combination, which I find a little
easier: ALT+s  c



For general menu access, I also prefer the old Windows (DOS?) Alt key
shortcut over any similar Esc shortcuts. It is easier to remember and it
works in virtually any program.
  


Yes, but FrameMaker's Escape key sequence commands work on all 
FrameMaker platforms, Windows, Mac and UNIX. There are some users who 
work in FrameMaker on more than one platform, so they only have to learn 
one FrameMaker keystroke set.


Regards,

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RE: Cross reference keyboard shortcut

[David Creamer]

 For general menu access, I also prefer the old Windows (DOS?) Alt key
 shortcut over any similar Esc shortcuts. It is easier to remember and it
 works in virtually any program.
 
 Yes, but FrameMaker's Escape key sequence commands work on all FrameMaker
 platforms, Windows, Mac and UNIX. There are some users who work in FrameMaker
 on more than one platform, so they only have to learn one FrameMaker keystroke
 set.

That's fine. As I said-- *I* prefer. I was not telling you what to do.

The new Macs don't even run Classic, so the Mac version is beyond EOL.
(Of course, one could dig up an old Mac, and old copy of FrameMaker for Mac,
and run it into the ground--or one could hack Classic on an Intel Mac--but
that was not the point.)

Unix users tend to be more tech savvy than many Windows users, so they tend
to already know to look for shortcuts.

In *my* Frame training, I would say it is 99.9% Windows users. Only one
company I've run into had some Unix users mixed in. Of the Windows users,
most of them are switching from Word. I (still) feel that on a
single-platform, the Alt key is easier to use for Windows users.

David Creamer
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Re: Frank Stearns

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On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Rick Henkel wrote:


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Frank, are you out there?


Yes!!! We are still here.

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Re: Can an Element be a Container and a System Variable

[Daniel Emory]

--- Catudal  Rousseau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Can an element be a container and a system variable
 at the same time? I
 would like to generate the Chapter-Section-Subject
 in the footer of the page from the
 attributes of the subject element.
===
Yes, this is doable if you appropriately define a
running header/footer variable to contain the
applicable attribute value(s). For instance, if you
define three attributes in the subject element to have
three attributes identifying the chapter (chapnbr),
section (sectnbr) and subject number (subjnbr), you
would define an available running header-footer
variable as follows:

$attribute[chapnbr:Subject] -
$attribute[sectnbr:Subject] -
$attribute[subjnbr:Subject]

Alternatively, if you were to use a single attribute
to define all three numbers (e.g, 2-3-5) in the
Subject element, the definition of the running footer
variable would be simplified as follows:

$attribute subjnbr:Subject]

Note that you must follow the attribute name with a
colon (:) followed by the name of the applicable
element in which the attribute is contained.

If there are two or more Subject elements on a page,
the attribute(s) in the first element is used. If
there are no Subject elements on the current page,
Framemaker will use the attribute values in the last
Subject element on a preceding page.





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DTD graphic tool?

[Art Campbell]

Has anyone run across a tool that can represent, graphically, the
nesting of levels of elements and sub-elements within a DTD file?  It
doesn't need to provide editing capability, although that would be
nice -- I'm looking more for a nice graphic.

Thanks,
Art

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Re: DTD graphic tool?

[Art Campbell]

Actually, I downloaded that just before I posted...
Is there a switch or display option to get it to display the DTD in
nested format? It's displaying as a flat file on my system, but I have
only played with the program for 20 minutes or so...

Thanks,
Art

On 12/13/06, David Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Stylus Studio.

www.stylusstudio.com

Or, more precisely:

http://www.stylusstudio.com/dtd_editor.html

Hope this helps.
David

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Subject: DTD graphic tool?

Has anyone run across a tool that can represent, graphically, the
nesting of levels of elements and sub-elements within a DTD file?  It
doesn't need to provide editing capability, although that would be nice
-- I'm looking more for a nice graphic.

Thanks,
Art

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Re: DTD graphic tool?

[Art Campbell]

Thanks for the pointer, Kay!
I downloaded and tried 4 other editors this afternoon, but this one is
the one that creates the graphic I wanted. ;- )

Cheers,
Art

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Hi Art:

TIBCO's TurboXML does this.  You can see the structure tree and even have it
create example XML files.  I think that some of the XML editors do this as
well.

Good luck,

Kay


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Has anyone run across a tool that can represent, graphically, the nesting of
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provide editing capability, although that would be nice -- I'm looking more
for a nice graphic.

Thanks,
Art

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Unlocking Pgf Locked

[Fred Staal]

Every now and then I get stuck with one of those auto-generated
paragraphs that appears after a text inset that refuses to cooperate
with being retagged for the subsequent paragraph and can't even be
deleted.  As a last resort, I recently converted a file with this
problem to a .mif and in Notepad found the offending paragraph, which
included the following notation: Pgf Locked. When I deleted this line,
and then opened the file in FM, the paragraph tag could be deleted. 
Is there a keyboard shortcut in Framemaker for unlocking a paragraph
with this problem? (FM6, XP, etc.)

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Chapter Numbering

[Alan Litchfield]

Hi Paul,

obair81 at comcast.net wrote:
> I am trying to find the right Autonumber format for my Chapter tag. Up till
> now, I had separate files for each chapter, but now I need to have a Frame
> book with just one core file that contains all my chapters.

It doesn't really matter which way you go, provided you set your document up
to suit what you need to achieve. Other issues aside of course.

>
> The Autonumber format that I had been using looks like this:
> H:Chapter <$chapnum> \t
> but that does not work right when multiple chapters are in one file. Each
> chapter becomes chapter 1.
>

<$chapnum$> operates on the file when it is linked through a book file. That
is, the numbering is allocated by the book file when it is updated.

I think you have two options:
1. Split your document up into individual files and link them through a book.
This has certain other advantages, such as determining whether the new chapter
starts on the left or right, page numbering format, etc.
2. Use <$paranum> instead of <$chapnum> and create a style for the chapters.
You can call it chapterNumber or some such.

Alan

Chapter Numbering

[Alan Litchfield]

obair81 at comcast.net wrote:
> Translation.
>
> The translation must be done in Word, so I will need to convert from Frame to
> Word, and this caused huge linking problems between the Word files the last
> time I did it with multiple Frame files in the Frame book.
>

Shouldn't be a problem if you use mif2go. But there are other alternatives
such as exporting to Word from a PDF.

I have tried this - http://www.solidpdf.com/ - and it seems to work ok. But
google "convert pdf to word" and you will find lots of converters.

Alan

Searching in text insets

[Steve Rickaby]

At 21:19 -0800 12/12/06, Whites wrote:

>Today, from within the main document, I searched on a string in a text inset 
>and was surprised to find that the FM search function did not find it. Am I 
>being obtuse (happens a lot) or is this the way things are supposed to be? Any 
>help will be appreciated.

You are not being obtuse: FrameMaker doesn't look in text insets. The same 
thing is true of spell-checking text insets.

Workaround: build an Ur-book that contains all your insets, and 
search/spell-check in that.

-- 
Steve

Frank Stearns

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to franks at fsatools.com, the message comes back undeliverable.

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TrackChanges and Multiple Undo

[David Creamer]

> A year or two ago I installed TrackChanges on FrameMaker 7.0p579.
> Afterward FrameMaker began crashing when I edited text. Never
> had done so previously. I eventually figured out that
> deleting words with Ctrl-Delete was causing the FrameMaker
> failures. After fruitless troubleshooting and research,
> including a note to this list, I happened to remove
> TrackChanges. No crashes since then.

One or two years ago is a long time for software (well... except for major
FrameMaker upgrades!). Control-Delete is not crashing Frame 7.2 now, using
the beta 1.9 version.

> There is no fix and it is still unstable. It caused my Frame 7.0 to
> crash multiple times. I called the company. They have no intention of
> fixing it since everyone is upgrading to 7.2 and getting multiple undo
> from Adobe. 
> 
Multi-Undo is a separate product from Track Changes, but it appears you are
referring to both products. (Perhaps you purchased a bundle?)
Could it be that problem was with Multi-Undo and *not* Track Changes?

David Creamer
I.D.E.A.S. - Results-Oriented Training
http://www.IDEAStraining.com
Adobe Certified Trainer & Expert (since 1995)
Authorized Quark Training Provider (since 1988)
Markzware, Enfocus, FileMaker Certified
Apple Consultant Network member (since 1990)

Can an Element be a Container and a System Variable

[Catudal & Rousseau]

Hello Framers:

Can an element be a container and a system variable at the same time? I
would like to generate the Chapter-Section-Subject in the footer of the page 
from the
attributes of the subject element.

If this is possible an example would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Louise

Searching in text insets

[Daniel Emory]

--- Fred Ridder  wrote:
> "Supposed to be" could be argued, but it certainly
> is the way
> things *are*. Text insets are treated as black boxes
> by the
> Find/Change operation.
==
Putting text insets in text frames (each with a
different text flow name) within reference pages in
the same document is one way to preserve the
find/change and spell checking capability for text
insets. Of course, this solution only works when the
entire text inset content will fit within a single
reference page.




Dan Emory & Associates
FrameMaker/FrameMaker+SGML Document Design & Database Publishing

Cross reference keyboard shortcut

[David Creamer]

> You can also use the following key combination, which I find a little
> easier: ALT+s  c
> 
For general menu access, I also prefer the old Windows (DOS?) Alt key
shortcut over any similar Esc shortcuts. It is easier to remember and it
works in virtually any program.

David Creamer
I.D.E.A.S. - Results-Oriented Training
http://www.IDEAStraining.com
Adobe Certified Trainer & Expert (since 1995)
Authorized Quark Training Provider (since 1988)
Markzware, Enfocus, FileMaker Certified
Apple Consultant Network member (since 1990)

Cross reference keyboard shortcut

[Peter Gold]

Hi, David:

David Creamer wrote:
>> You can also use the following key combination, which I find a little
>> easier: ALT+s  c
>>
>> 
> For general menu access, I also prefer the old Windows (DOS?) Alt key
> shortcut over any similar Esc shortcuts. It is easier to remember and it
> works in virtually any program.
>   

Yes, but FrameMaker's Escape key sequence commands work on all 
FrameMaker platforms, Windows, Mac and UNIX. There are some users who 
work in FrameMaker on more than one platform, so they only have to learn 
one FrameMaker keystroke set.

Regards,

Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices

Cross reference keyboard shortcut

[David Creamer]

>> For general menu access, I also prefer the old Windows (DOS?) Alt key
>> shortcut over any similar Esc shortcuts. It is easier to remember and it
>> works in virtually any program.
> 
> Yes, but FrameMaker's Escape key sequence commands work on all FrameMaker
> platforms, Windows, Mac and UNIX. There are some users who work in FrameMaker
> on more than one platform, so they only have to learn one FrameMaker keystroke
> set.

That's fine. As I said-- *I* prefer. I was not telling you what to do.

The new Macs don't even run Classic, so the Mac version is beyond EOL.
(Of course, one could dig up an old Mac, and old copy of FrameMaker for Mac,
and run it into the ground--or one could hack Classic on an Intel Mac--but
that was not the point.)

Unix users tend to be more tech savvy than many Windows users, so they tend
to already know to look for shortcuts.

In *my* Frame training, I would say it is 99.9% Windows users. Only one
company I've run into had some Unix users mixed in. Of the Windows users,
most of them are switching from Word. I (still) feel that on a
single-platform, the Alt key is easier to use for Windows users.

David Creamer
I.D.E.A.S. - Results-Oriented Training
http://www.IDEAStraining.com
Adobe Certified Trainer & Expert (since 1995)
Authorized Quark Training Provider (since 1988)
Markzware, Enfocus, FileMaker Certified
Apple Consultant Network member (since 1990)

Frank Stearns

[Frank Stearns]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Rick Henkel wrote:

> Does anyone have a second e-mail address for Frank? When I send mail
> to franks at fsatools.com, the message comes back undeliverable.
>
> Frank, are you out there?

Yes!!! We are still here.

May all spammers die a hideous death. It seems our ISP has been having 
mail server problems because of them. (Sheer volumes of this junk has 
overwhelmed one of the oldest and most reliable ISPs in our area.)

You can also try our direct ISP address of franks at pacifier.com.

Calling is fine too, but just discovered that our answering system is not 
working properly, and I'm scrambling to find another solution there, too. 
Sigh.

Isn't technology wonderful? (When it works.)

Apologies to anyone who has tried to reach us without success, though some 
messages have been getting through.

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Can an Element be a Container and a System Variable

[Daniel Emory]

--- Catudal & Rousseau  wrote:
> Can an element be a container and a system variable
> at the same time? I
> would like to generate the Chapter-Section-Subject
> in the footer of the page from the
> attributes of the subject element.
===
Yes, this is doable if you appropriately define a
running header/footer variable to contain the
applicable attribute value(s). For instance, if you
define three attributes in the subject element to have
three attributes identifying the chapter (chapnbr),
section (sectnbr) and subject number (subjnbr), you
would define an available running header-footer
variable as follows:

<$attribute[chapnbr:Subject] -
<$attribute[sectnbr:Subject]> -
<$attribute[subjnbr:Subject]>

Alternatively, if you were to use a single attribute
to define all three numbers (e.g, 2-3-5) in the
Subject element, the definition of the running footer
variable would be simplified as follows:

<$attribute 

Note that you must follow the attribute name with a
colon (:) followed by the name of the applicable
element in which the attribute is contained.

If there are two or more Subject elements on a page,
the attribute(s) in the first element is used. If
there are no Subject elements on the current page,
Framemaker will use the attribute values in the last
Subject element on a preceding page.





Dan Emory & Associates
FrameMaker/FrameMaker+SGML Document Design & Database Publishing

DTD graphic tool?

[Art Campbell]

Has anyone run across a tool that can represent, graphically, the
nesting of levels of elements and sub-elements within a DTD file?  It
doesn't need to provide editing capability, although that would be
nice -- I'm looking more for a nice graphic.

Thanks,
Art

-- 
Art Campbell art.campbell at 
gmail.com
  "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent
   and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
 No disclaimers apply.
 DoD 358

DTD graphic tool?

[Art Campbell]

Actually, I downloaded that just before I posted...
Is there a switch or display option to get it to display the DTD in
nested format? It's displaying as a flat file on my system, but I have
only played with the program for 20 minutes or so...

Thanks,
Art

On 12/13/06, David Foster  wrote:
> Stylus Studio.
>
> www.stylusstudio.com
>
> Or, more precisely:
>
> http://www.stylusstudio.com/dtd_editor.html
>
> Hope this helps.
> David
>
> -Original Message-
> From: owner-framers at omsys.com [mailto:owner-framers at omsys.com] On Behalf
> Of Art Campbell
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 3:03 PM
> To: STC Lone Writer SIG; FrameMaker; Free Framers
> Subject: DTD graphic tool?
>
> Has anyone run across a tool that can represent, graphically, the
> nesting of levels of elements and sub-elements within a DTD file?  It
> doesn't need to provide editing capability, although that would be nice
> -- I'm looking more for a nice graphic.
>
> Thanks,
> Art
>
> --
> Art Campbell
> art.campbell at gmail.com
>   "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent
>and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
>  No disclaimers apply.
>  DoD 358
>
> ** To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo at omsys.com **
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>


-- 
Art Campbell art.campbell at 
gmail.com
  "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent
   and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
 No disclaimers apply.
 DoD 358

DTD graphic tool?

[Art Campbell]

Thanks for the pointer, Kay!
I downloaded and tried 4 other editors this afternoon, but this one is
the one that creates the graphic I wanted. ;- )

Cheers,
Art

On 12/13/06, Kay Ethier at Bright Path  wrote:
> Hi Art:
>
> TIBCO's TurboXML does this.  You can see the structure tree and even have it
> create example XML files.  I think that some of the XML editors do this as
> well.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Kay
>
> 
> Kay Ethier
> Senior Trainer & Consultant
> Bright Path Solutions
> PO Box 14265
> Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-4265
> 1.919.244.8559
> FAX: 1.919.474.9223
> URL: http://www.travelthepath.com
> Conferences: http://www.travelthepath.com/conf/
> SKYPE = kayper
> 
>
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Art Campbell
>
> Has anyone run across a tool that can represent, graphically, the nesting of
> levels of elements and sub-elements within a DTD file?  It doesn't need to
> provide editing capability, although that would be nice -- I'm looking more
> for a nice graphic.
>
> Thanks,
> Art
>
> --
> Art Campbell
> art.campbell at gmail.com
>   "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent
>and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
>  No disclaimers apply.
>  DoD 358
>
>


-- 
Art Campbell art.campbell at 
gmail.com
  "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent
   and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
 No disclaimers apply.
 DoD 358

Unlocking "Pgf Locked"

[Fred Staal]

Every now and then I get stuck with one of those auto-generated
paragraphs that appears after a text inset that refuses to cooperate
with being retagged for the subsequent paragraph and can't even be
deleted.  As a last resort, I recently converted a file with this
problem to a .mif and in Notepad found the offending paragraph, which
included the following notation: "Pgf Locked." When I deleted this line,
and then opened the file in FM, the paragraph tag could be deleted. 
Is there a keyboard shortcut in Framemaker for unlocking a paragraph
with this problem? (FM6, XP, etc.)

Fred Staal
Supervisor, Technical Publications
Schilling Robotics, LLC
Phone: (530) 753-6718 x155
Fax: (530) 753-8092
fred.staal at schilling.com