it on the site at this moment
(maybe I'm totally missing it), but Rick's great about responding if you
contact him. :-)
HTH
Rene Stephenson
Syed Zaeem Hosain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Will!
White, William wrote:
Anyone out there in FrameLand know of plugins that allow book-wide
renaming
at this shop is taboo anyway.
If there's a better solution, I'd love to know about it!
Rene Stephenson
Steve Rickaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:42 +0200 11/4/07, Reng, Winfried
Dr. wrote:
I have a similar problem. I have an infoicon paragraph in the sidehead area
with a Frame below which holds
it takes 8-12 hours for a team of 4 to generate our 7 documents, and
this Frame Above / Frame Below problem with the paragraph formats is one of
the main hindrances to automation.
Rene
Steve Rickaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:16 -0700 11/4/07, Rene
Stephenson wrote:
I can't
or
Word, on Win or Mac).
HTH
Rene Stephenson
Chandramohan, Anitha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Generate All began at
04/23/07 16:10:32.
An error occurred. IMPORTANDEXPAND failed to read file D:/4/Support/Normal.asp.
An error occurred. IMPORTANDEXPAND failed to read file D:/4/Support
Rick,
The $ in a formula fixes a location. So, if you want to always use the same
column but allow dynamic relative reassignment of the row, you'd refer to cell
B3 as $B3. Likewise, if you want the column to be relative and the row fixed,
it would be B$3; and if you want both column
I have had secretaries apply for tech writer openings in my group. Internal
candidates always get phone screening, so I'd have to call them. I always asked
what they felt were their qualifications, and they all responded that they had
good English and were experts with MS Word. They wrote lots
an affinity for the job.
Moral of my story, I guess, is that it's not a bad thing to think
outside the box, hiring-wise, but yes, it is hard to effectively weed
out the unqualified while finding the right person for the job.
-Lise
On 5/15/07, Rene Stephenson wrote:
I have had secretaries apply
out the unqualified while finding the right person for the job.
-Lise
On 5/15/07, Rene Stephenson wrote:
I have had secretaries apply for tech writer openings in my group.
Internal candidates always get phone screening, so I'd have to call them.
I
always asked what they felt were
the motivation of the candidate?
Thanks for comments
peter
Rene Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those are good points.
Rene
Diane Gaskill wrote:
Rene, All,
Be careful about rejecting applicants without a degree, and don't count on
an applicant having a degree being qualified for the job
Rickaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 12:40 -0700 15/5/07, Rene Stephenson wrote:
However, about half the tech writers I know never formally trained as tech
writers - although all are of graduate level. One reason for this is that for
my generation there wasn't much in the way of formal courses
in the new version, so although I have been able to
convert the view-only file to TXT, all the hidden text was omitted from
the TXT version.
I did try to dig through the archives, but...I'm coming up empty-handed.
Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks,
Rene Stephenson
Rene L
...and one for the other cheek, too. :-)
Rene
Rick Quatro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Rene,
Since you are giving out e-kisses, here is another way to do it in FrameMaker
7.2. Choose View Formatting Bar and click the icon that has the white page
and blue ribbon.
Rick
Word for is online forms that we
distribute to non-writers.
Rene Stephenson
Steve Rickaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For me, Frame is mission-critical: no more, no less. I don't know about
broadening horizons, but if I'd been forced to use Word for everything these
past fifteen years, I'd
So, Kenneth, would you say that if you're needing a workhorse for managing
content that has lots of overlap and several versions of output, FM might be a
better choice; whereas if you're not having to manage as much content overlap
or customized output, ID can create more professionally typeset
to the customer informing them that the file is to be printed on
legal paper, but due to variances in printer drivers, we cannot guarantee
alignment of the layout...?
Thanks,
Rene Stephenson
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Good point, but no - that's my typo. It's set to 14x8.5 - I just got in too
big of a hurry typing the post. :-\ SORRY
OK, so an advisory notice of sorts (ReadMe file, popup, etc.) looks like our
only option...
Rene
Kenneth C. Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Rene Stephenson
Unfortunately, there's just too much info to get it on letter size paper and
have it meet the minimum font specs...unless it goes to more than
front-and-back, in which case I am told there are issues with it being included
as a laminated item attached inside the cover of the product. We
If you do an Index of References for the book and select imported graphics,
you'll get an alphabetized list of each imported graphic and where it's used.
However, we have found it more expedient to use Bruce Foster's Archive plugin.
;-)
HTH
Rene Stephenson
Van Boening, Tammy [EMAIL PROTECTED
it in the project folder
and include it with the archive.
HTH
Rene Stephenson
Yves Barbion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Bruce Foster's Archive plug-in
for this purpose
(http://home.comcast.net/~bruce.foster/Archive.htm):
1. Archive my Frame book to a different (target) folder.
2. Delete all
, and the
second part set up as a single-sourced file that everyone could point to from
their books)? Or what other solutions might there be that are escaping me in my
limited experience
Thanks,
Rene Stephenson
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Carla,
Thanks for your detailed insight! We're looking at a move to structured FM when
the product line stabilizes. Should I be inferring from your statement that
text insets don't play well in Structured FM? (Excuse me if my ignorance is
showing...)
Most (if not all) of the other places that
FM Console does show the font name(s) that are missing, but I haven't seen it
specify where the font is used that's missing. For that piece of Jon's
question, I'd use Find, Character Format, type in the missing font family, and
leave everything else as-is. This doesn't see the reference or
installing some updates to Acrobat - never had
the problem before that. Any ideas would be appreciated, and you can reply
offlist to keep from clogging the list with OT stuff.
Thanks,
Rene Stephenson
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. Sometimes the failure to understand the tools and the failure to
understand the skillset in our trade seem to foster assumptions that only
enlightenment can silence.
;-)
Rene Stephenson
John Sgammato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you're right on, Lin.
You know the tools you need
You could really stir the pot by throwing ePublisher in the mix as a
single-sourcing solution. g There's an import utility available for
ePublisher that can take any RH project and convert it to MIF, retaining links
and mapping formats as you determine in the interface. Depending on the size
for
helping with that.
I never would have guessed 3-5 days! For how big a guide? 60 pages? 200
pages? (Once it's PDFed, of course.)
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Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 12:59 PM
Her contributions were always insightful. Her presence on this list will be
missed.
With Sympathy,
Rene
Bruce Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sorry to hear that. My condolences.
Bruce
--- Wolf Davidson wrote:
Martha Jane Davidson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), a
long-time contributor to
the
a flat file
(Document, Master Ref. pages all in one), easy to search -- and
replace -- in a fairly good text editor (TextPad, ConText, jEdit,
etc.).
Bodvar
On 6/18/07, Rene Stephenson wrote:
FM Console does show the font name(s) that are missing, but I haven't seen it
specify where the font is used
You might try checking
[InstalledDrive:]\\..\Adobe\FrameMaker7.2\OnlineManuals\Character_Sets.pdf
Rene Stephenson
Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't seen that symbol as a glyph
in any font, but it'd be pretty
easy to create in FM if you can't find it elsewhere.
Try typing the L
incrementally. ;-)
HTH
Rene Stephenson
Ellen Lebelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If these documents were for a new product line, we
MIGHT be able to get away with putting them into a single number.
However, they are for two separate but similar product lines. The first
one is 1950 while
got some handy
tools for manipulating the tables in FM.
HTH
Rene Stephenson
Rick Quatro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Kenneth,
You can use Escape t I (capital i) to move the insertion point out of the
table.
You may want to consider automating the whole process with FrameScript. If
you
If it can be done, the folks at the Yahoo group for WebWorks would have the
expertise to tell you how. See http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wwp-users/.
HTH
Rene Stephenson
Combs, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Garnier Garnier wrote:
I could right align the numbered list in FM
Whenever someone does add the templates to the repository, could that someone
please post an ANN to the list to let us know?
THANKS!
Rene
Steve Rickaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:25 -0700 7/8/07, Valerie Lipow
wrote:
If anyone has one or more templates demonstrating the type of
Unless Mif2Go offers a solution, I don't know of one. In my experience, native
FM's Save As RTF function seems to just dump it out as if it were set to show
all conditions without indicators.
I hope someone can provide a better solution. :-)
Rene Stephenson
Theresa de Valence [EMAIL
.* *.lck /s
HTH
Rene Stephenson
Syed Zaeem Hosain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, Mike.
Mike Wickham wrote:
Put the following into a file (named with extension .BAT):
@echo off
echo.
echo Deleting the following files from the current directory:
dir *.backup.* *.lck
echo.
del *.backup
the xref.
Worked like a charm!! Thanks, WR!
Rene
Stuart Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rene Stephenson wrote:
My question is, I looked in the MIF and I don't see any path stuff
that I could just do a find/replace to make it point to the right
path. Is there any way to change
to do?
Thanks,
Rene Stephenson
Hitachi Telecom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have another question about Template Mapper, does anyone have a copy they
would be willing to share with me and then/when Chris resurfaces, I can pay him
for the copy I have. It would not be fair to him
There's also a heckuva lot more to editing than just a grammar check by a bunch
of kids (or any grammar-checker, for that matter).
Rene Stephenson
Denise L. Moss-Fritch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good Day Mulholland,
Sorry, in my opinion the plan is not in the best interest
Yep, they would: extra money in the corporate pockets to show for the lower
quality to the customers and resultant increase in customer calls for tech
support. You get what you pay for...a short-term gain.
Rene
Steve Rickaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 15:54 -0400 10/10/07, mulholland4
subject to frequent
upheaval via organizational changes. I can't say much about other industries,
because I'm too narrow - I've done nothing but telecom work for over a decade.
Rene Stephenson
Bill Swallow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't buy your few companies generalization. Perhaps small
what the customer does with the products and what the company
provides as products for the customer.
My 2¢
Rene Stephenson
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ply their skills,
provided a corporation values something other than blind typists who just write
what they're paid to write. Perhaps those areas are things that TWs should
pitch and demonstrate their skills toward.
Rene Stephenson
Bill Swallow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agreed. I'm surprised
The market is also driven by price, availability, and value (=quality for the
price), but pervasive marketing and cut-throat competition can trump.
Rene
John Hedtke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You're making an assumption that the market is driven by quality. It
is not, though that's
The presumption was made that Microsoft has market share due to time-to-market
push by Gates, and that is a gross oversimplification. It has a lot more to do
with cut-throat marketing tactics and industrial espionage (end justifies the
means to Gates) than it does with simply driving a product
HA! Quite true! TW's usually also bring an approach that is closer to green
field than the developers, engineers, etc., can provide. Because they
understand how THEY INTEND for it to function and be used, they can be a bit
myopic about how what they have CREATED actually plays out.
Rene
Bill
Chris Borokowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:In my experience, the average
software company calls the TW when the
product is nearing completion, with completion usually meaning five
minutes before the ship date, and asks them to WTFM.
Yes, they do. And that's exactly why so much of the
to drop the call volume. But, rely on
either without the other and you don't reap the maximum benefit of TW staff.
Rene Stephenson
Technical Writer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That is a very big if. A full partner participant-stakeholder, or more likely
the department manager? It is more
window.
My 2¢
Rene Stephenson
Chris Borokowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You really hit the nail on the head. Meetings are brain-sapping enough
when important information is actually being conveyed, but most people
who are on the CC: list for meetings are being given a free hourlong
zone
writers on staff longterm in some industries and/or RD
environments, depending on the company dynamics, market forces, and product
life cycles.
Rene Stephenson
Technical Writer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:.hmmessage P { margin:0px;
padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt
overrides).
2. View Text Symbols. When you apply a condition tag to a bulleted item,
if you don't include the paragraph end marker, the text will be hidden, but
the bullet will still show.
HTH
Rene Stephenson
Brad Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello fellow FM users,
I'm delving
Agreed.
Rene
Susan Modlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been working in and with agile
development groups as a writer or doc manager since late in the last century.
When I first heard about agile, I thought it was the devil's spawn, but it
hasn't turned out that way at all. In my experience, a
My solution for this is creating a paragraph tag (Callouts) and using the Text
Frame tool to draw a little text box for the callout. Doing this also enables
us to insert cross-references for callouts, which adds similar navigation to
graphic hotspots. ;-)
Rene Stephenson
Fred Ridder [EMAIL
We use the Archive plug-in as part of our version control process. We
single-source as much as possible, using boilerplate files inserted into all
the books, as well as text insets, shared appendices that leverage product- and
purpose-driven conditional text, and shared graphics. It makes the
I use Rick Quatro's FindChangeFormatsBatch.fsl (FrameScript) for this and all
other book-level changes to formats, variables, etc. and LOVE IT.
Rene L. Stephenson
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From: Linda G. Gallagher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Thursday,
We have the same problem and have heard it's just a bug w/ FM 7.2 unstructured
insets. Our solution is to use Silicon Prairie's Paragraph Tools to Remove
Paragraph Overrides immediately before generating the book for our output
formats.
Rene L. Stephenson
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Glad to learn that. (Had to dig the reply out of my spam folder where it had
gotten misrouted by my spam filter.)
Rene L. Stephenson
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To: Rene Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
framers@lists.frameusers.com
Systec doesn't, but this does:
* If you don't have FrameScript engine:
http://www.frameexpert.com/plugins/findchangespecial/index.htm
* Even more powerful version if you do have FrameScript engine:
FindChangeFormatsBatch.fsl (from the same developer - ask Rick at
FrameExpert.com for pricing)
won't hold if you follow the text inset with anything other than a
numbered list?
Rene L. Stephenson
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From: Combs, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Rene Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
framers@lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 1
Could this be a job for AutoText...?
Rene L. Stephenson
- Original Message
From: David Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 10:11:19 AM
Subject: boilerplate text on reference pages
I currently have 4 types of notes (in tables) in
AutoText is a plugin, not part of FM, so that's probably why it didn't come up
in FM help. See http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/Products.html
Rene L. Stephenson
- Original Message
From: David Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Rene Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED]; framers
Mollye,
All of our text insets are set to container doc formatting, and we have tons of
them in tons of books. We set up a separate book file that points to all the
text insets, and then we open all the files from that book minimized (FSL open
all files in book silently). Then we open all the
Hi All,
We have a library of a few dozen books (about 10,000 pages), and many of the
files use the same graphics or composites built from shared graphics. We've run
upon a challenge, though, in that things have gotten complex enough that we
can't always use subfolders to group the graphics in
I have a license personally, but the company never bought one. I'llpitch it to
them again, as a MUST HAVE in the current environment.(wish me luck)
I do create help files with WebWorks, but I'venever been able to get them to
upgrade to ePublisher. We're stuck withWWP Pro 8.x.
I'll pop over to
thinking when I have several books
that already share graphics, running this plugin would create additional copies
of those graphics rather than creating fewer... What am I missing?
Rene
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FWIW...I'm running Win XP - SP2 with FM 7.2 (latest patch/update), and there's
only one maker.ini where this change can be made, and it's in the Program Files
folder in the path where FM 7.2 is installed. There is a maker.ini in the
Documents and Settings path to my UserID application data, but
From: Whites [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 20087:33 AM
To: White William
Subject: Fwd: Is there a way topaste text as default?
Begin forwarded message:
From: Rene Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: Whites
the files you've
been using with cleaner versions of code.
HTH,
Rene Stephenson
Leah Smaller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning list people,
FM 7.0
Acrobat 5.0
I usually print our Users Guides to ps file and then distill with Acrobat
Distiller to get a pdf file. Always works - except today
What if you use the Open all files in book silently script and then
shift-alt-F, S?
Rene L. Stephenson
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To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 7:27:54 AM
Subject: Re: Upgrade to Frame 8? (Fred
Is your paragraph alignment set to Left or Justified?
Rene L. Stephenson
- Original Message
From: Rick Spiegel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 6:19:18 PM
Subject: Autonumber at end of paragraph
I'm using Frame 7.0.
I want to use
I can't answer *all* of your questions, but I know someone who can. ;-)
ATCS includes RoboHelp, and the current version of RH provides seamless
integration from FM source, skipping the RTF step that used to be required.
Additionally, you can set the new RH to recognize TopicAlias markers as
If you shift-alt-f, s before shift/close all, you won't be prompted. That many
files will still take a long time to save, though.
Maybe one of the developers on the list has some insight...?!
Rene L. Stephenson
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From: Harold Winberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
MS Manual of Style for Technical Publications calls it several different terms,
depending on the functionality. See Dialog Boxes and Property Sheets in the MS
MoS.
HTH
Rene L. Stephenson
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time. Instead of picking
*one* thing to do, you just populate the table with all the stuff you want to
do and run it once.
Rene L. Stephenson
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Cc: Rick Quatro [EMAIL PROTECTED]; framers
for
convenience. If you spend your time watching the rear view mirror or looking
over your shoulder, you'll surely wreck, because that's only helpful for going
BACKWARDS, not moving forward! - Rene Stephenson
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From: Reng, Dr. Winfried [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: framers
Hi All,
It seems that at some point in time someone had mentioned setting up a TOC at
the first of a chapter as a text inset so that it would auto-update when you
generate the FM book file. (Maybe I'm dreaming...)
Well, I have come upon a situation where I could use that to track the chapter
Nothing... all options are checked.
Rene L. Stephenson
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To: Rene Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 1:05:17 PM
Subject: Re: List of... or Index of... as a text inset
at production is just too time-consuming.
Rene L. Stephenson
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To: Rene Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED]; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 1:13:08 PM
Subject: Re: List of... or Index of... as a text inset
Okay, great! I have FS and have bought several scripts from Rick, always with
great satisfaction.
Rene L. Stephenson
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From: Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Rene Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Framers framers@lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Richard,
In that instance, weren't the TOC/LOF/LOT reading all the FM files in the book
for one TOC, one LOF, and one LOT at the book level front matter?
Rene L. Stephenson
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From: Combs, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I used to have some books in which the
Gotcha. :-)
Rene L. Stephenson
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Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 6:32:24 PM
Subject: RE: List of... or Index of... as a text inset?
Rene Stephenson wrote
Perhaps you meant Editorially yours...?
LOL! You're priceless, Richard. :-)
Rene L. StephensonThere's no such thing as good writing—only good revising.
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Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:57:35
Maybe the should outsource the manual to someone on this list. ;-)
Rene L. Stephenson
- Original Message
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Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 1:00:10 PM
The source can be a .txt file, and you can format it as per the container
(target / destination / display) document's formats. You can insert it pretty
much anywhere in the text flow. You don't need an anchored frame. But, if you
use an FM file as a text inset, it works better if you make the
One would think Vogue would be sourced in Quark... :)}
Does JoAnn Hackos use FM to write her books...?
I know of some who use FM for catalogs, though, as well as others who write in
FM for the airline industry. :-)
Rene L. Stephenson
- Original Message
From: Deirdre Reagan [EMAIL
I would:
d) Buy the current Adobe Technical Communicator Suite, just a $900 upgrade with
ANY previous license for FM or RH.
...because the new RH and FM8 work together seamlessly. As I understand it, you
don't have to roundtrip stuff back and forth through MIF anymore. You just set
up your RH
I'll take your experience over my watching webinars any day. g
Bummer..
Oh, well, I guess I can just stick with WWP Pro and FM 7.2 for a while longer.
;-)
Rene L. Stephenson
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From: Jim Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In fact, as far as I know, any
Nope, but you would need to tell him (and the rest of us who have been
searching for it for a couple of years now since CudSpan went off-line and Mr.
Despopoulos dropped out of virtual visability) how we can purchase it nowadays.
Please... Pretty please with sugar on top
Rene L.
Aravind,
No attachment came through, but I think I understand your goal: graphic
alignment at the level of indentation of the surrounding text.
We achieve this by having the graphic inserted At Insertion Point in a special
formatting paragraph we call Spacer. The Spacer format has tabs at each
I've been successfully exporting TIF files from Visio and just importing that
into FM by reference. The OLE stuff for Visio if FM does work, but it's really
quirky/flaky with our files...although, that might be due to still using Visio
2003!!
Rene L. Stephenson
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parties on this list,
so please don't hesitate to tell me where we're screwing up. ;-)
Rene L. Stephenson
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From: Combs, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rene Stephenson wrote:
I've been successfully exporting TIF files from Visio and just
importing
Hello All,
We have a single-sourced architecture with the following basic path structure:
[drive]:\private\[ProductLine]\[Product]\FMfiles\[bookname].book
Since any given .book file can share several .fm files, we often end up with
.book windows that look like:
Huh. This Esc m p feature doesn't cause the anchored frame to change to At
Insertion Point in my FM7.2 on XP SP2, and I do not have ShrinkWrapAsIs.dll.
Does Bruce Foster's ImpGraph.dll fix the Esc m p problem, too?
Rene L. Stephenson
- Original Message
From: Art Campbell [EMAIL
Hi Mathieu:
You could define the Heading1 autonumber as:
$chapnum\t—\t
(using ALT+0151 for the —)
This would read the chapter number setting from the file, so it wouldn't
increment when you use it multiple times in the same file. You could also do
some series numbering settings, but I find
Please disregard my off-mark post. I need to get back to my old rule of not
doing anything that requires clarity of mind before ingesting a pot of coffee...
Rene L. Stephenson
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To: Framers framers@lists.frameusers.com
Sent:
With View Text Symbols turned on, put your cursor before the pilcrow and
after the text inset insertion marker, and add a space or a tab (or a character
in same-as-background color). That should fix it.
HTH
Rene L. Stephenson
Lovin' coffee...would mainline it if I could find a way.
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Thanks, Art. You're right, I'm still warped back in time to the concept that
Vista is the new kid on the block with all the inherent don't buy it until
they work the bugs out cloud.
My main client has UNIX/Linux servers, and I'll be setting up a server at home
whenever the basement finish-out
Thanks! July 2nd is closer to my funding availability than this week is. :o)
I have used Dell desktops, and I have borrowed a Dell Latitude from time to
time. I also used to own an IBM ThinkPad (which I loved, although it was almost
prohibitively proprietary and heavy as lead). I saw a Dell
Thanks, Peter. I was one of the daring few who jumped into the first version of
the then newly available laptop dual core Intel chipset. Unfortunately, that
chipset was discontinued after 6 weeks' production due to lack of support for
power save features. If I had been more cunning, I would
Cool! Definitely a viable solution. THANKS
Rene L. Stephenson
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From: Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you use a 10-key a lot, why not use an external so you can go with
a smaller laptop?
Looks as if there are lots of options, including some that include a mouse...
Thanks for your candid insight, Sarah. Are any bits of your litany addressed
with Vista SP1?
Rene L. Stephenson
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From: Sarah O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's probably worth switching just to avoid Vista. If you can get XP,
great, but if your choices are a) Vista or
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