multiple clipboards and find/replace
The recent discussion of paste special and clipboards managers reminds me to ask a question that can't be too burning for me (or I'd have asked it a while ago) -- Is there a multiple clipboard utility for FrameMaker that integrates with Find/Change (on the Mac)? One of the deficiencies of FM's Find/Change is that you can't search for a text string with specific attributes (font size, weight, etc.) and replace some or all occurrences of that string with another that has different specific attributes. At best you can search for occurrences of the FindString and change them to GarbageText (say $#%@@!) then search for GarbageText and Replace with the desired ChangeString. Two clipboards would avoid the need for the two-step process if FM could see them both for Find/TextFormat in Clipboard1 and Change/By Pasting from Clipboard2. Graeme Forbes ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
multiple clipboards and find/replace
The recent discussion of paste special and clipboards managers reminds me to ask a question that can't be too burning for me (or I'd have asked it a while ago) -- Is there a multiple clipboard utility for FrameMaker that integrates with Find/Change (on the Mac)? One of the deficiencies of FM's Find/Change is that you can't search for a text string with specific attributes (font size, weight, etc.) and replace some or all occurrences of that string with another that has different specific attributes. At best you can search for occurrences of the FindString and change them to GarbageText (say $#%@@!) then search for GarbageText and Replace with the desired ChangeString. Two clipboards would avoid the need for the two-step process if FM could see them both for Find/Text in Clipboard1 and Change/By Pasting from Clipboard2. Graeme Forbes
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I would like to apply a character tag to a particular character that is used in paragraphs of several different styles without changing the rest of the attributes. As far as I can tell, Frame only lets me change character attributes, not tags. If I understand, the problem is to change OldTag to NewTag, preserving all attributes. Does the following help? Copying a particular character format (Command-Option-x on the Mac) and pasting it (Command-V) changes attributes and tags. But if OldTag and NewTag have the same attributes, all that happens when you paste is that the tagname changes. So manually set up one character with NewTag, same attribs as OldTag, and Command-OPtion-x it. One could then FindNext through the document (Command-G), pasting (Command-V) NewTag over OldTag on each occurrence of the target character. So long as only occurrences of the target character have NewTag you can then affect them and only them by altering the attributes of NewTag, if desired. Automating this in Applescript would be trivial. Graeme Forbes ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
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>I would like to apply a character tag to a particular character that is >used in paragraphs of several different styles without changing the rest >of the attributes. As far as I can tell, Frame only lets me change >character attributes, not tags. If I understand, the problem is to change OldTag to NewTag, preserving all attributes. Does the following help? Copying a particular character format (Command-Option-x on the Mac) and pasting it (Command-V) changes attributes and tags. But if OldTag and NewTag have the same attributes, all that happens when you paste is that the tagname changes. So manually set up one character with NewTag, same attribs as OldTag, and Command-OPtion-x it. One could then FindNext through the document (Command-G), pasting (Command-V) NewTag over OldTag on each occurrence of the target character. So long as only occurrences of the target character have NewTag you can then affect them and only them by altering the attributes of NewTag, if desired. Automating this in Applescript would be trivial. Graeme Forbes
Re: FM and crossover for mac
Has anyone tried FrameMaker on a macintel with the Codeweavers' CrossOver for Mac ? No, but FrameMaker 7.1 is on their list of supported applications. - web Alas, FM only gets a bronze medal. Better than Bode Miller at the last Winter Olympics, but with none of the refreshing attitude. Here's how CodeWeavers explain bronze medal: The bronze is awarded to applications that install and run, and that can accomplish some portion of their fundamental mission. However, bronze applications generally have enough bugs that we recommend that our customers not depend on their functionality. The most important aspect of a bronze application is that CodeWeavers makes a firm commitment to bring all bronze applications to the silver level in future releases of CrossOver. I think I know how to define future. Graeme Forbes ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
FM and crossover for mac
> >Has anyone tried FrameMaker on a macintel with the Codeweavers' >>CrossOver for Mac ? > > No, but FrameMaker 7.1 is on their list of supported applications. > > - web Alas, FM only gets a bronze medal. Better than Bode Miller at the last Winter Olympics, but with none of the refreshing attitude. Here's how CodeWeavers explain "bronze medal": The bronze is awarded to applications that install and run, and that can accomplish some portion of their fundamental mission. However, bronze applications generally have enough bugs that we recommend that our customers not depend on their functionality. The most important aspect of a bronze application is that CodeWeavers makes a firm commitment to bring all bronze applications to the silver level in future releases of CrossOver. I think I know how to define "future". Graeme Forbes
undefined entries
Rick: How about this? You have n properties P1 to Pn making for n rows in the table. As I understand it, the number of entires on each row can vary. Define a nonsense string that couldn't be the value of any of the properties. Put it in wherever needed so that all the rows have the same number of entries as the longest row(s). Now generate an uber-list of lists, where each member list contains exactly one value from each row. Then define a contraction routine that erases the nonsense string wherever it occurs in this list of lists. You now have a list of lists of variable length, and provided you didn't omit any walk down the table, all possible combinations of values for P1...Pn should be there. Any good? Graeme ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
undefined entries
Rick: How about this? You have n properties P1 to Pn making for n rows in the table. As I understand it, the number of entires on each row can vary. Define a nonsense string that couldn't be the value of any of the properties. Put it in wherever needed so that all the rows have the same number of entries as the longest row(s). Now generate an uber-list of lists, where each member list contains exactly one value from each row. Then define a contraction routine that erases the nonsense string wherever it occurs in this list of lists. You now have a list of lists of variable length, and provided you didn't omit any "walk" down the table, all possible combinations of values for P1...Pn should be there. Any good? Graeme
Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0
Dov wrote: "The problems that I mention are more prevalent under Windows than on Mac" which sounds about right. But although "even the Mac has issues with such parallel installations. Some program must respond to double clicks to open/process files from the user interface" you can easily set a default. I run Acro5, full version, and Acro7 Pro (default), on the same machines, but the solution to having them cohabit peacefully may be that Acro5 is set to open as a classic application. Graeme Forbes
RE: Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0
Dov wrote: The problems that I mention are more prevalent under Windows than on Mac which sounds about right. But although even the Mac has issues with such parallel installations. Some program must respond to double clicks to open/process files from the user interface you can easily set a default. I run Acro5, full version, and Acro7 Pro (default), on the same machines, but the solution to having them cohabit peacefully may be that Acro5 is set to open as a classic application. Graeme Forbes ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
OSX Tiger and FrameMaker
There seems to be a bit of confusion in answering Ann's question about FM and Tiger. Bottom line: if it's a G5 Mac you've got (or G4, G3...) FrameMaker will run fine under OS X 10.2, 10.3 (Panther) or 10.4 (Tiger). Dunno about 10.0 or 10.1 This is because the G5 supports Apple's Classic environment, which allows OS9 to run inside any recent version of OSX that can be installed on a G5 computer. If you buy a newer Mac with an Intel chip, you're out of luck (a qualification -- there are certain programs which emulate OS7 or OS8 inside OSX on an Intel Mac, so you can run -- sort of -- FM5 or FM6; or you can emulate, or even boot into, Windows -- yeah, right -- and run Windows FM). An entirely different question is whether your machine can *boot into* OS9 (OS9 controls the computer, not OSX with Classic running inside it). I had a G4 desktop which could boot OS9, and OS9 apps like FM7 fairly flew. But of course I couldn't run OSX apps without rebooting. I think my particular model may have been the last or second last Mac capable of booting OS9. G5 Macs can't. But for FrameMaker, running in Classic is not merely perfectly acceptable, it's actually better than running on any machine controlled by OS9. OSX is vastly more stable, and if Classic chokes, it's only a Classic relaunch to get things going again, not a hardware reboot. As part of Apple's plot to abandon its customers still using non-OSX software, they stopped shipping G4/G5 Macs with Classic installed some time ago. Once your new OS 10.x is going on your machine, you may have to go to the Help menu and search for Classic to find out where on your installation disks they've hidden the Classic installler. But it'll be there somewhere. Hope that helps, Graeme Forbes ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
OSX Tiger and FrameMaker
There seems to be a bit of confusion in answering Ann's question about FM and Tiger. Bottom line: if it's a G5 Mac you've got (or G4, G3...) FrameMaker will run fine under OS X 10.2, 10.3 (Panther) or 10.4 (Tiger). Dunno about 10.0 or 10.1 This is because the G5 supports Apple's Classic environment, which allows OS9 to run inside any recent version of OSX that can be installed on a G5 computer. If you buy a newer Mac with an Intel chip, you're out of luck (a qualification -- there are certain programs which emulate OS7 or OS8 inside OSX on an Intel Mac, so you can run -- sort of -- FM5 or FM6; or you can emulate, or even boot into, Windows -- yeah, right -- and run Windows FM). An entirely different question is whether your machine can *boot into* OS9 (OS9 controls the computer, not OSX with Classic running inside it). I had a G4 desktop which could boot OS9, and OS9 apps like FM7 fairly flew. But of course I couldn't run OSX apps without rebooting. I think my particular model may have been the last or second last Mac capable of booting OS9. G5 Macs can't. But for FrameMaker, running in Classic is not merely perfectly acceptable, it's actually better than running on any machine controlled by OS9. OSX is vastly more stable, and if Classic chokes, it's only a Classic relaunch to get things going again, not a hardware reboot. As part of Apple's plot to abandon its customers still using non-OSX software, they stopped shipping G4/G5 Macs with Classic installed some time ago. Once your new OS 10.x is going on your machine, you may have to go to the Help menu and search for "Classic" to find out where on your installation disks they've hidden the Classic installler. But it'll be there somewhere. Hope that helps, Graeme Forbes
file extensions
I've just sent a zip archive of hundreds of files, mostly Mac FM ones, to someone who's taking over a job from me. He's on Windows, and tells me he can't open any of the files, because, he thinks, none of them have .extensions. Do I really have to add .fm to all the FM files, or is there another way? Graeme Forbes ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
file extensions
I've just sent a zip archive of hundreds of files, mostly Mac FM ones, to someone who's taking over a job from me. He's on Windows, and tells me he can't open any of the files, because, he thinks, none of them have .extensions. Do I really have to add ".fm" to all the FM files, or is there another way? Graeme Forbes
