Re: Help with footnote numbers

2007-08-28 Thread Graeme R Forbes
Tina Ricks wrote: I've got the footnote body set to 10 points (Format Document Footnote Properties). Unfortunately, this means (I think) that the footnote reference (in the main text) is also 10 point superscript. No, the reference numeral's attributes in the main text are controlled by the

Re: Learning FrameMaker 7.0 on Mactel (10.4.10) with Parallels/XP Home

2007-08-28 Thread Mark Poston
Noel, I use FM7.2 8 on a daily basis on Windows XP Pro under Parallels. It has been a very stable environment for me. Using Parallels in Coherent mode means that FM sits nicely with my other Mac apps. I had one instance where the virtual hard disk got corrupt after an upgrade of Parallels and

Re: Text lines disappearing below bottom of main text flow frame

2007-08-28 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
I found a posting since 2004 about the same thing. This happened when columns were set to balanced. Same here. There was never a reply to this posting. Is this a problem that others have experienced? Bodvar On 8/27/07, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this is an oldie, but

Re: Help with footnote numbers

2007-08-28 Thread Stuart Rogers
Tina Ricks wrote: I'm looking for help with footnote reference numbers. The footnote reference is the superscript number that appears in the main text. The footnote body is the text that appears at the bottom of the page. I've got the footnote body set to 10 points (Format Document

RE: Text lines disappearing below bottom of main text flow frame

2007-08-28 Thread Lester C. Smalley
Bodvar - I haven't run into the specific problem you describe, and I can't offer much advice as I work with single-column documents almost exclusively, although they do use side heads. As you are working in a structured document, there may be issues with element formatting such as keep with

SOLVED: FM 8 Book fails to distill to PDF

2007-08-28 Thread Valerie Lipow
I used the recommendation given to me by Art Campbell on framers to set the Tagged PDF feature to ON in the Acrobat Settings dialog. That solved the problem; the book distilled to PDF without incident. Because I have avoided using Tagged PDF (because it bloats the size of the PDF file) in all

FM to MS Word Convert

2007-08-28 Thread Martin Simon
Good Morning List Folks, Sorry, this questions seems taboo however, I am interested in converting a FM book to an MS Word doc. The FAQ didn't say much. I converted my book to HTML then pasted into a blank Word doc. There is a lot of clean-up necessary. Do you have any other ideas? I do not want

RE: Help with footnote numbers

2007-08-28 Thread TEPLITZ Ronald
Tina, You set the size of the footnote reference in FormatDocumentText Options. This dialog allows you to set the size of superscripted text in relation to the associated body text. Ron Message: 20 Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:58:34 -0700 From: Tina Ricks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help with

List of Cross-References with Destinations

2007-08-28 Thread aharvey
All: Is there any way to generate a list of cross reference markers that contains the file names of where the cross-reference points to, instead of just the verbage of the cross reference, etc. Amy Harvey Enercon Services, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

FM to Word conversion

2007-08-28 Thread Martin Simon
Good Morning Framers List, Sorry, this questions seems taboo however, I am interested in converting a FM book to an MS Word doc. The FAQ didn't say much. I converted my book to HTML then pasted into a blank Word doc. There is a lot of clean-up necessary. Do you have any other ideas? I do not want

Re: FM to Word conversion

2007-08-28 Thread Rick Quatro
You can Save As RTF and see how that works, or use a third-party program like Mif2Go (http://www.omsys.com). Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com Good Morning Framers List, Sorry, this questions seems taboo however, I am interested in converting a FM book to an MS

Re: FM to MS Word Convert

2007-08-28 Thread Art Campbell
I would have saved the Frame files as .RTF and opened those in Word, probably using a template that I'd already set up with styles that matched the FM tag names Art On 8/28/07, Martin Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Morning List Folks, Sorry, this questions seems taboo however, I am

RE: FM to Word conversion

2007-08-28 Thread Combs, Richard
Martin Simon wrote: Sorry, this questions seems taboo however, I am interested in converting a FM book to an MS Word doc. The FAQ didn't say much. I converted my book to HTML then pasted into a blank Word doc. There is a lot of clean-up necessary. Do you have any other ideas? I do not

Re: FM to Word conversion

2007-08-28 Thread Fred Ridder
I second Rick's advice but would like to add a couple of hints about the RTF export that may be of use. First, have a *lot* of patience, particulalry if your document has many graphics. If there are a lot of graphics, the conversion runs so slowly that it is easy to think that Frame has hung or

RE: FM to Word conversion

2007-08-28 Thread Martin Simon
I did not see all of those options since I was trying to convert the book file. My choices were limited to fm, mif,pdf,htm, and xml. Now, I can see the many save as options available for the individual chapters. So, in that case I would convert then paste the chapters together, later? As for the

Re: Text lines disappearing below bottom of main text flow frame

2007-08-28 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Lester, Thank you for the suggestions. This is my first two column big job so far. I have not started feathering yet, but I found later today a suggestion lurking somewhere in my old posts (when ordered to delete out of my mail box) a suggestion that changing the widow/orphan to three lines.

Re: FM to MS Word Convert

2007-08-28 Thread Stuart Rogers
Martin Simon wrote: Good Morning List Folks, Sorry, this questions seems taboo however, I am interested in converting a FM book to an MS Word doc. The FAQ didn't say much. I converted my book to HTML then pasted into a blank Word doc. There is a lot of clean-up necessary. Do you have any other

RE: FM to Word conversion

2007-08-28 Thread Combs, Richard
Martin Simon wrote: I did not see all of those options since I was trying to convert the book file. My choices were limited to fm, mif,pdf,htm, and xml. Ah, so that's why you went the HTML route. :-) Remember, in FM, all the content is in the .fm files. The .book file just contains

Re: List of Cross-References with Destinations

2007-08-28 Thread Stuart Rogers
aharvey wrote: All: Is there any way to generate a list of cross reference markers that contains the file names of where the cross-reference points to, instead of just the verbage of the cross reference, etc. You can create a Special List Of References, and choose External Cross-Refs.

Help with footnote numbers

2007-08-28 Thread Graeme R Forbes
Tina Ricks wrote: "I've got the footnote body set to 10 points (Format > Document > Footnote Properties). Unfortunately, this means (I think) that the footnote reference (in the main text) is also 10 point superscript. " No, the reference numeral's attributes in the main text are controlled by

Learning FrameMaker 7.0 on Mactel (10.4.10) with Parallels/XP Home

2007-08-28 Thread Mark Poston
Noel, I use FM7.2 & 8 on a daily basis on Windows XP Pro under Parallels. It has been a very stable environment for me. Using Parallels in Coherent mode means that FM sits nicely with my other Mac apps. I had one instance where the virtual hard disk got corrupt after an upgrade of Parallels and

Text lines disappearing below bottom of main text flow frame

2007-08-28 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
I found a posting since 2004 about the same thing. This happened when columns were set to balanced. Same here. There was never a reply to this posting. Is this a problem that others have experienced? Bodvar On 8/27/07, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: > I think this is an oldie, but I cannot find

Help with footnote numbers

2007-08-28 Thread Stuart Rogers
Tina Ricks wrote: > I'm looking for help with footnote reference numbers. The footnote reference > is the superscript number that appears in the main text. The footnote body > is the text that appears at the bottom of the page. > > > > I've got the footnote body set to 10 points (Format >

Text lines disappearing below bottom of main text flow frame

2007-08-28 Thread Lester C. Smalley
Bodvar - I haven't run into the specific problem you describe, and I can't offer much advice as I work with single-column documents almost exclusively, although they do use side heads. As you are working in a structured document, there may be issues with element formatting such as keep with

SOLVED: FM 8 Book fails to distill to PDF

2007-08-28 Thread Valerie Lipow
I used the recommendation given to me by Art Campbell on framers to set the Tagged PDF feature to "ON" in the Acrobat Settings dialog. That solved the problem; the book distilled to PDF without incident. Because I have avoided using Tagged PDF (because it bloats the size of the PDF file) in all

FM to MS Word Convert

2007-08-28 Thread Martin Simon
Good Morning List Folks, Sorry, this questions seems taboo however, I am interested in converting a FM book to an MS Word doc. The FAQ didn't say much. I converted my book to HTML then pasted into a blank Word doc. There is a lot of clean-up necessary. Do you have any other ideas? I do not want

Help with footnote numbers

2007-08-28 Thread TEPLITZ Ronald
Tina, You set the size of the footnote reference in Format>Document>Text Options. This dialog allows you to set the size of superscripted text in relation to the associated body text. Ron >Message: 20 >Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:58:34 -0700 >From: "Tina Ricks" >Subject: Help with footnote

List of Cross-References with Destinations

2007-08-28 Thread aharvey
All: Is there any way to generate a list of cross reference markers that contains the file names of where the cross-reference points to, instead of just the verbage of the cross reference, etc. Amy Harvey Enercon Services, Inc. aharvey at enercon.com

FM to Word conversion

2007-08-28 Thread Martin Simon
Good Morning Framers List, Sorry, this questions seems taboo however, I am interested in converting a FM book to an MS Word doc. The FAQ didn't say much. I converted my book to HTML then pasted into a blank Word doc. There is a lot of clean-up necessary. Do you have any other ideas? I do not want

FM to Word conversion

2007-08-28 Thread Rick Quatro
You can Save As RTF and see how that works, or use a third-party program like Mif2Go (http://www.omsys.com). Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com Good Morning Framers List, Sorry, this questions seems taboo however, I am interested in converting a FM book to an MS

FM to MS Word Convert

2007-08-28 Thread Art Campbell
I would have saved the Frame files as .RTF and opened those in Word, probably using a template that I'd already set up with styles that matched the FM tag names Art On 8/28/07, Martin Simon wrote: > Good Morning List Folks, > > Sorry, this questions seems taboo however, I am interested in

FM to Word conversion

2007-08-28 Thread Combs, Richard
Martin Simon wrote: > Sorry, this questions seems taboo however, I am interested in > converting a FM book to an MS Word doc. The FAQ didn't say > much. I converted my book to HTML then pasted into a blank > Word doc. There is a lot of clean-up necessary. Do you have > any other ideas? I do

FM to Word conversion

2007-08-28 Thread Fred Ridder
I second Rick's advice but would like to add a couple of hints about the RTF export that may be of use. First, have a *lot* of patience, particulalry if your document has many graphics. If there are a lot of graphics, the conversion runs so slowly that it is easy to think that Frame has hung or

FM to Word conversion

2007-08-28 Thread Martin Simon
I did not see all of those options since I was trying to convert the book file. My choices were limited to fm, mif,pdf,htm, and xml. Now, I can see the many save as options available for the individual chapters. So, in that case I would convert then paste the chapters together, later? As for the

Text lines disappearing below bottom of main text flow frame

2007-08-28 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Lester, Thank you for the suggestions. This is my first two column big job so far. I have not started feathering yet, but I found later today a suggestion lurking somewhere in my old posts (when ordered to delete out of my mail box) a suggestion that changing the widow/orphan to three lines.

FM to MS Word Convert

2007-08-28 Thread Stuart Rogers
Martin Simon wrote: > Good Morning List Folks, > > Sorry, this questions seems taboo however, I am interested in converting > a FM book to an MS Word doc. The FAQ didn't say much. I converted my > book to HTML then pasted into a blank Word doc. There is a lot of > clean-up necessary. Do you have

FM to Word conversion

2007-08-28 Thread Combs, Richard
Martin Simon wrote: > I did not see all of those options since I was trying to > convert the book file. My choices were limited to fm, > mif,pdf,htm, and xml. Ah, so that's why you went the HTML route. :-) Remember, in FM, all the content is in the .fm files. The .book file just contains

List of Cross-References with Destinations

2007-08-28 Thread Stuart Rogers
aharvey wrote: > All: > > > > Is there any way to generate a list of cross reference markers that contains > the file names of where the cross-reference points to, instead of just the > verbage of the cross reference, etc. You can create a Special > List Of > References, and choose External