RE: FrameMaker 10 Officially Demonstrated At tekom Conference

2010-11-10 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 15:24 -0500 9/11/10, Rick Quatro wrote: The way the feature is implemented, you wouldn't get the results you did in your book. It is basically like highlighting with no control over background height or offsets, etc. Bah. As far as the book, I hope you used some kind of automation to get

RE: FrameMaker 10 Officially Demonstrated At tekom Conference

2010-11-10 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Stuart, No. RJ Jacquez focused on new features and not on bugs. Maybe you should ask whether you can join the beta program. Then you can check this yourself. And you can help make the next FrameMaker version more stable. However, Michael Müller-Hillebrand told me that he wrote an event

OTT: Excel

2010-11-10 Thread Steve Rickaby
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Annoying FM quirk

2010-11-10 Thread Spectrum Writing
All, I have a paragraph tag named PageBreak that is designed to do what the name implies - put in a PageBreak at specific location that I select. The tag has a 750.00 pt Below Pfg characteristic and I have also applied a bright Fuschia color so that I can differentiate the pilcrow for the tag

Re: Annoying FM quirk

2010-11-10 Thread Baruch Brodersen
Try setting the font size 2 pt., retain the distinctive font colroing, use autonumbering, and add 50 or so em-spaces in the the autonumber text field. This will result in a greeked non-printing line a couple inches long. To add an em space, use \sm. Baruch Brodersen On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:19

RE: Annoying FM quirk

2010-11-10 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Tammy, You don't mention the font size of the PageBreak tag, but one thing you could do is apply some kind of autonumber (perhaps a bullet) to the format for when you are authoring/editing. Then, before you print, etc., you could remove the autonumber from the format. It's not perfect, but at

RE: Annoying FM quirk

2010-11-10 Thread David Spreadbury
I see the same, or very similar, behavior running 7.2. Sometimes the pilcrow for a tag changes from 10pt to about 14pt Bold. Reapplying the tag fixes the problem. This doesn't appear to have any affect on generated PDFs. It seems to be a display issue within Frame. I am using Structured Frame,

RE: Annoying FM quirk

2010-11-10 Thread Spectrum Writing
Thanks all, I appreciate the insight and suggestions. I will modify it as suggested and see if that works. Thanks again, TVB Tammy Van Boening Owner/Principal Spectrum Writing, LLC www.spectrumwritingllc.com i...@spectrumwritingllc.com -Original Message- From:

Re: Annoying FM quirk

2010-11-10 Thread Shane Taylor
FM tends to treat empty paragraphs differently than those containing text. Changing the paragraph style to use a space character as an autonumber *might* fool FM into treating the paragraph correctly, but I haven't tested this. Shane Taylor Technical Writer WebAssign 919.829.8181 x147 On

Re: need to change equation size

2010-11-10 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 09/11/2010 9:14 AM, Bethany Lee wrote: Hi all, Using FM9, unstructured I've searched but I can't find how to change an equation size from medium to small (or medium to large). I can see how to change the preset elements (font size, color etc.) of the small, medium and large equations,

R: FM9/ Framemaker cannot initialize its dictionaries/ solved

2010-11-10 Thread Anton David
Hello all, I thought I should share the solution. Jeff has advised to contact Adobe support where they said I should download the installer again. This was not the solution. So far, I have copied the installer on a DVD and always launched the installer from the DVD. By chance, I copied the

FrameMaker 10 Officially Demonstrated At tekom Conference

2010-11-10 Thread Reng, Dr. Winfried
Hi Stuart, No. RJ Jacquez focused on new features and not on bugs. Maybe you should ask whether you can join the beta program. Then you can check this yourself. And you can help make the next FrameMaker version more stable. However, Michael M?ller-Hillebrand told me that he wrote an event

Annoying FM quirk

2010-11-10 Thread David Spreadbury
I see the same, or very similar, behavior running 7.2. Sometimes the pilcrow for a tag changes from 10pt to about 14pt Bold. Reapplying the tag fixes the problem. This doesn't appear to have any affect on generated PDFs. It seems to be a display issue within Frame. I am using Structured Frame,

R: FM9/ Framemaker cannot initialize its dictionaries/ solved

2010-11-10 Thread Anton David
Hello all, I thought I should share the solution. Jeff has advised to contact Adobe support where they said I should download the installer again. This was not the solution. So far, I have copied the installer on a DVD and always launched the installer from the DVD. By chance, I copied the