At 09:46 -0500 10/2/07, Art Campbell wrote:
What's the setting in your .ini for using printer font metrics?
It's a Mac installation, which doesn't have a maker.ini file.
And what is MacTex supposed to do?
Sorry: should have explained. MacTeX is a full TeX installation for Apple OS X.
As the
Hello (structured) Framers,
one of my customers has the following problem:
He has a structured FrameMaker 7.0 file which looks like this:
STitleProduct Description/TitleI
P./P/S
The S element is a section and has to become a PDF bookmark.
The I element is an inline element for index
Hi all.Windows XP Unstructured FrameMaker 7.1
Has anybody experienced this. I have document with multiple cross
references to various headings in a multi chapter document. For some
reason a few of my cross references linked to headers have a larger font
size than the rest, yet others with
David,
Open the Cross Reference dialog box, select the relevant format, and
click Edit Format.
In the Definition field, check whether a specific character building
block, or a paragraph building block with a specific para format, is
included in the format's structure. If yes, this is probably
All right...tell me good, solid reasons why a company would want to
structure their documents. With my limited knowledge, I know structure
effectively controls styles, fonts, etc...but I could manage that myself
without structure. By extension, I know style control also controls
content location
Yves,
You wrote:
one of my customers has the following problem:
He has a structured FrameMaker 7.0 file which looks like this:
STitleProduct Description/TitleI
P./P/S
The S element is a section and has to become a PDF bookmark.
The I element is an inline element for index markers. The
Matt,
I'll start the ball rolling, but I'm sure you'll get tons of responses from
folks more savvy about structure than myself. ;-)
* Dynamic formatting: you can use structured FM to create formats that behave
differently depending on various surrounding factors, like indent to a
I think it depends on what you're doing and with how many people.
If you're all by yourself, and you only need PDF and one type of help
output...I don't really think there is a reason to go to structured authoring.
It's perfectly possible for you to handle all of it yourself. (I've been doing
Structure gives you the benefit of separating content from presentation.
Sounds trivial, and you may think you've accomplished this without
structure, but that is the primary reason to structure content: so your
XML abstraction is as agnostic as possible to the form of rendition that
you will
At 06:45 -0800 12/2/07, Rene Stephenson wrote:
* Dynamic formatting: you can use structured FM to create formats that
behave differently depending on various surrounding factors, like indent to a
certain level if it follows X paragraph but to a different level if it
follows Y paragraph.
Hi Penelope,
Thanks for the info. Great help.
However, when I have been using the options Learn and Allow in
document, FM does not seem to learn it, as I always have to repeat
the action to any repetition of the same words. This is the way it has
been with 7.0 and 7.2. I don't recall any
Shlomo Perets wrote:
As Yves Barbion mentioned, Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab will cycle
forwards/backwards through open documents and book files.
These shortcuts are worth remembering as they do the same in many
Windows applications (including MS Office).
...and the latest IE and Firefox
Hi David
Check that someone hasn't applied a character tag to the offending
headers. Even if they look the same as the others, it's possible someone
applied a character tag and then overrode that character tag to make the
headings look right. If they have, FM could be displaying the xref
> Regarding FrameMaker content, I don't know myself of any special
> issues regarding structure. The general rule with conditional
> text is to keep things simple, else it can turn into a
> maintenance nightmare.
I would avoid using FrameMaker conditional formats in structured
documents.
At 09:46 -0500 10/2/07, Art Campbell wrote:
>What's the setting in your .ini for using printer font metrics?
It's a Mac installation, which doesn't have a maker.ini file.
>And what is MacTex supposed to do?
Sorry: should have explained. MacTeX is a full TeX installation for Apple OS X.
As the
Hello (structured) Framers,
one of my customers has the following problem:
He has a structured FrameMaker 7.0 file which looks like this:
Product Description
.
The element is a section and has to become a PDF bookmark.
The element is an inline element for index markers. The index marker
Hi all.Windows XP Unstructured FrameMaker 7.1
Has anybody experienced this. I have document with multiple cross
references to various headings in a multi chapter document. For some
reason a few of my cross references linked to headers have a larger font
size than the rest, yet others with
David,
Open the Cross Reference dialog box, select the relevant format, and
click Edit Format.
In the Definition field, check whether a specific character building
block, or a paragraph building block with a specific para format, is
included in the format's structure. If yes, this is probably
All right...tell me good, solid reasons why a company would want to
structure their documents. With my limited knowledge, I know structure
effectively controls styles, fonts, etc...but I could manage that myself
without structure. By extension, I know style control also controls
content location
Yves,
You wrote:
>one of my customers has the following problem:
>
>He has a structured FrameMaker 7.0 file which looks like this:
>
>Product Description
>.
>
>The element is a section and has to become a PDF bookmark.
>The element is an inline element for index markers. The index marker
Matt,
I'll start the ball rolling, but I'm sure you'll get tons of responses from
folks more savvy about structure than myself. ;-)
* Dynamic formatting: you can use structured FM to create formats that behave
differently depending on various surrounding factors, like indent to a certain
I think it depends on what you're doing and with how many people.
If you're all by yourself, and you only need PDF and one type of help
output...I don't really think there is a reason to go to structured authoring.
It's perfectly possible for you to handle all of it yourself. (I've been doing
Structure gives you the benefit of separating content from presentation.
Sounds trivial, and you may think you've accomplished this without
structure, but that is the primary reason to structure content: so your
XML abstraction is as agnostic as possible to the form of rendition that
you will
At 06:45 -0800 12/2/07, Rene Stephenson wrote:
> * Dynamic formatting: you can use structured FM to create formats that
> behave differently depending on various surrounding factors, like indent to a
> certain level if it follows X paragraph but to a different level if it
> follows Y
John,
You wrote:
>This may be simple; however, I could not find anything in the Help.
>
>Is there a keyboard shortcut to switch between FM documents?
>...
>I would like to easily (through a keyboard shortcut) be able to switch
>between ea of the three chapters.
I wasn't able to find this
Hi Penelope,
Thanks for the info. Great help.
However, when I have been using the options "Learn" and "Allow in
document", FM does not seem to "learn" it, as I always have to repeat
the action to any repetition of the same words. This is the way it has
been with 7.0 and 7.2. I don't recall any
Shlomo Perets wrote:
>
> As Yves Barbion mentioned, Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab will cycle
> forwards/backwards through open documents and book files.
>
> These shortcuts are worth remembering as they do the same in many
> Windows applications (including MS Office).
...and the latest IE and
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