OT: Indexing

2007-06-13 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 14:57 -0400 13/6/07, Ann Zdunczyk wrote: >I know some of you guys do indexing a lot. I have been asked to quote doing >an index in Pagemaker (sorry). There are 1300 terms that are to be listed in >the index. In Pagemaker, as in Framemaker, I would need to add an index >entry for each instance o

RE: Pasting a link to excel 2007

2007-06-13 Thread Paul Grigg
Afraid not. Using this import procedure, the table definitely appears in the FrameMaker file, but when you create the PDF the table is once more represented by a black stub. Nice try, though. Thanks, Paul -Original Message- From: Combs, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

system variables inside a user variable?

2007-06-13 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 12:03 -0400 13/6/07, Brian.Darold at sage.com wrote: >Is it possible to put building blocks inside a user variable? Ideally I'd >like to create a variable named CurrentYear that contains only the <$year> >building block. For reasons unknown, I'd like to do this without modifying >or using the e

system variables inside a user variable?

2007-06-13 Thread brian.dar...@sage.com
Thanks for the great information everybody. As my department moves to FrameMaker from MS Word I expect you'll see more questions from me in the future. Brian -Original Message- From: Ridder, Fred [mailto:fred.rid...@intel.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 5:19 PM To: Brian.Darold at s

system variables inside a user variable?

2007-06-13 Thread Ridder, Fred
As others have noted, it is not possible to use system variables within user variables, nor is it possible to define additional new system variables. But I have to say that I really don?t see that what you are trying to do provides that much utility. Globally updating a regular user variable that

Indexing

2007-06-13 Thread Grant Hogarth
Well --- as an initial thought If you have the list of terms to be indexed, you could do a S&R on each term to get the count for that term. That's a pain for 1300 terms, but there as S&R tools that can be scripted. (alternatively, there are concordance tools that can list the number of occuran

Frame to pdf bookmark problem

2007-06-13 Thread Mark Southee
Fred, it doesn't seem as straight forward as that. It only seems to affect the first file in the book structure. I created 2 identical files (all with the same text flows and connections). Whichever file was at the top of the book structure, the problem as I described occurred, but only for that fi

Frame to pdf bookmark problem

2007-06-13 Thread Mark Southee
I've started to get a strange problem when printing to pdf from some newly created files. I've got a Chapter Title paragraph style - Chapter:TitleBook, and a Heading one style - Head:1Book I have the pdf settings so the Head:1Book tags are indented once from the Chapter:TitleBook. However the pdf

OT: Indexing

2007-06-13 Thread Ann Zdunczyk
Hi all, I know some of you guys do indexing a lot. I have been asked to quote doing an index in Pagemaker (sorry). There are 1300 terms that are to be listed in the index. In Pagemaker, as in Framemaker, I would need to add an index entry for each instance of the term in a 300 page book. I have no

RE: system variables inside a user variable?

2007-06-13 Thread Brian . Darold
Thanks for the great information everybody. As my department moves to FrameMaker from MS Word I expect you'll see more questions from me in the future. Brian -Original Message- From: Ridder, Fred [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 5:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; fra

RE: Indexing

2007-06-13 Thread Grant Hogarth
Well --- as an initial thought If you have the list of terms to be indexed, you could do a S&R on each term to get the count for that term. That's a pain for 1300 terms, but there as S&R tools that can be scripted. (alternatively, there are concordance tools that can list the number of occuran

Re: OT: Indexing

2007-06-13 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 14:57 -0400 13/6/07, Ann Zdunczyk wrote: >I know some of you guys do indexing a lot. I have been asked to quote doing >an index in Pagemaker (sorry). There are 1300 terms that are to be listed in >the index. In Pagemaker, as in Framemaker, I would need to add an index >entry for each instance o

RE: system variables inside a user variable?

2007-06-13 Thread Ridder, Fred
As others have noted, it is not possible to use system variables within user variables, nor is it possible to define additional new system variables. But I have to say that I really don’t see that what you are trying to do provides that much utility. Globally updating a regular user variable that

Re: system variables inside a user variable?

2007-06-13 Thread Scott Prentice
Oops .. sorry. I misread the question .. please disregard my reply. :) ...scott Scott Prentice wrote: Hi Brian... You can use our MarkerTools plugin to embed variables within markers .. http://leximation.com/tools/info/markertools.php I believe that this functionality is also available w

system variables inside a user variable?

2007-06-13 Thread Scott Prentice
Oops .. sorry. I misread the question .. please disregard my reply. :) ...scott Scott Prentice wrote: Hi Brian... You can use our MarkerTools plugin to embed variables within markers .. http://leximation.com/tools/info/markertools.php I believe that this functionality is also available w

system variables inside a user variable?

2007-06-13 Thread Combs, Richard
Brian.Darold at sage.com wrote: > Is it possible to put building blocks inside a user variable? > Ideally I'd like to create a variable named CurrentYear that > contains only the <$year> building block. For reasons > unknown, I'd like to do this without modifying or using the > existing curre

system variables inside a user variable?

2007-06-13 Thread brian.dar...@sage.com
Is it possible to put building blocks inside a user variable? Ideally I'd like to create a variable named CurrentYear that contains only the <$year> building block. For reasons unknown, I'd like to do this without modifying or using the existing current date, modification date, or creation date var

OT: Indexing

2007-06-13 Thread Ann Zdunczyk
Hi all, I know some of you guys do indexing a lot. I have been asked to quote doing an index in Pagemaker (sorry). There are 1300 terms that are to be listed in the index. In Pagemaker, as in Framemaker, I would need to add an index entry for each instance of the term in a 300 page book. I have no

RE: system variables inside a user variable?

2007-06-13 Thread Combs, Richard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it possible to put building blocks inside a user variable? > Ideally I'd like to create a variable named CurrentYear that > contains only the <$year> building block. For reasons > unknown, I'd like to do this without modifying or using the > existing current dat

Re: system variables inside a user variable?

2007-06-13 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Brian... You can use our MarkerTools plugin to embed variables within markers .. http://leximation.com/tools/info/markertools.php I believe that this functionality is also available with Index Tools Pro from Silicon Prairie as well .. http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.htm

system variables inside a user variable?

2007-06-13 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Brian... You can use our MarkerTools plugin to embed variables within markers .. http://leximation.com/tools/info/markertools.php I believe that this functionality is also available with Index Tools Pro from Silicon Prairie as well .. http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.ht

Re: system variables inside a user variable?

2007-06-13 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 12:03 -0400 13/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Is it possible to put building blocks inside a user variable? Ideally I'd >like to create a variable named CurrentYear that contains only the <$year> >building block. For reasons unknown, I'd like to do this without modifying >or using the existing

FW: Pasting a link to excel 2007

2007-06-13 Thread Paul Grigg
Correction: The table is in excel 2007, not 2003. -Original Message- From: Paul Grigg [mailto:pgr...@checkpoint.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 10:35 AM To: 'Framers' Subject: RE: Pasting a link to excel 2007 Using FrameMaker 6.0 Just something we've noticed: if, in FM, you Edit >

Pasting a link to excel 2007

2007-06-13 Thread Paul Grigg
Using FrameMaker 6.0 Just something we've noticed: if, in FM, you Edit > paste special > paste link to a table in an excel 2003, the table appears in FrameMaker, but when the file is printed, either to a physical printer or to distiller, the table turns into a black stub. Anyone else noticed this,

Frame to pdf bookmark problem

2007-06-13 Thread Ridder, Fred
A similar question was asked and answered on-list last week. The most common cause of the behavior you describe is when the chapter title is in a separate frame that is not properly connected to the frame(s) for the main text flow. Check your master pages. -Original Message- From: frame

system variables inside a user variable?

2007-06-13 Thread Brian . Darold
Is it possible to put building blocks inside a user variable? Ideally I'd like to create a variable named CurrentYear that contains only the <$year> building block. For reasons unknown, I'd like to do this without modifying or using the existing current date, modification date, or creation date var

Pasting a link to excel 2007

2007-06-13 Thread Combs, Richard
Paul Grigg wrote: > Just something we've noticed: if, in FM, you Edit > paste > special > paste link to a table in an excel 2003, the table > appears in FrameMaker, but when the file is printed, either > to a physical printer or to distiller, the table turns into a > black stub. Anyone else no

RE: Frame to pdf bookmark problem

2007-06-13 Thread Mark Southee
Fred, it doesn't seem as straight forward as that. It only seems to affect the first file in the book structure. I created 2 identical files (all with the same text flows and connections). Whichever file was at the top of the book structure, the problem as I described occurred, but only for that fi

RE: Frame to pdf bookmark problem

2007-06-13 Thread Ridder, Fred
A similar question was asked and answered on-list last week. The most common cause of the behavior you describe is when the chapter title is in a separate frame that is not properly connected to the frame(s) for the main text flow. Check your master pages. -Original Message- From: [EMAI

Frame to pdf bookmark problem

2007-06-13 Thread Mark Southee
I've started to get a strange problem when printing to pdf from some newly created files. I've got a Chapter Title paragraph style - Chapter:TitleBook, and a Heading one style - Head:1Book I have the pdf settings so the Head:1Book tags are indented once from the Chapter:TitleBook. However the pdf

RE: Pasting a link to excel 2007

2007-06-13 Thread Combs, Richard
Paul Grigg wrote: > Just something we've noticed: if, in FM, you Edit > paste > special > paste link to a table in an excel 2003, the table > appears in FrameMaker, but when the file is printed, either > to a physical printer or to distiller, the table turns into a > black stub. Anyone else n

FW: Pasting a link to excel 2007

2007-06-13 Thread Paul Grigg
Correction: The table is in excel 2007, not 2003. -Original Message- From: Paul Grigg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 10:35 AM To: 'Framers' Subject: RE: Pasting a link to excel 2007 Using FrameMaker 6.0 Just something we've noticed: if, in FM, you Edit > past

RE: Pasting a link to excel 2007

2007-06-13 Thread Paul Grigg
Using FrameMaker 6.0 Just something we've noticed: if, in FM, you Edit > paste special > paste link to a table in an excel 2003, the table appears in FrameMaker, but when the file is printed, either to a physical printer or to distiller, the table turns into a black stub. Anyone else noticed this,