Re: OT: Syntax for if/then statement

2006-06-29 Thread Martha J Davidson
At 10:22 AM 6/29/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our new editor wants to add the word "and" to such statements - if , AND then . Both I and the other writer disagree with the editor on this one - it should be just if/then - no "and." Tammy, I think your editor is overreacting to the use of "the

OT: Syntax for if/then statement

2006-06-29 Thread Martha J Davidson
At 10:22 AM 6/29/2006, Tammy.VanBoening at jeppesen.com wrote: >Our new editor wants to add the word "and" to such >statements - if , AND then . Both I and the other >writer disagree with the editor on this one - it should be just if/then - >no "and." Tammy, I think your editor is overreacting to

Re: WebWorks forum?

2006-06-15 Thread Martha J Davidson
At 10:40 AM 6/15/2006, Beck, Charles wrote: Do any of you know of any Quadralay/WebWorks online forums like this group, where you can ask and get answers to questions about WebWorks products? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwp-users/ -- Martha Jane {Kolman | Davidson} Dances With Words [EMAIL PR

WebWorks forum?

2006-06-15 Thread Martha J Davidson
At 10:40 AM 6/15/2006, Beck, Charles wrote: >Do any of you know of any Quadralay/WebWorks online >forums like this group, where you can ask and get answers to questions >about WebWorks products? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwp-users/ -- Martha Jane {Kolman | Davidson} Dances With Words editrix a

Re: 'Bold' not inserted in Character Formats

2006-05-26 Thread Martha J Davidson
At 04:57 AM 5/26/2006, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: I have a weird problem on my hands, and I probably have had it for a long time (years). I have a problem with setting some of my Character Tags to bold. I am not sure whether it is isolated to the Helvetica font, but this is how it goes: I have

'Bold' not inserted in Character Formats

2006-05-26 Thread Martha J Davidson
At 04:57 AM 5/26/2006, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote: >I have a weird problem on my hands, and I probably have had it for a >long time (years). I have a problem with setting some of my Character >Tags to bold. I am not sure whether it is isolated to the Helvetica >font, but this is how it goes: I have

Conditional Text and Numbering

2006-05-24 Thread Martha J Davidson
When you apply the condition tag, make sure all text symbols are showing and that you include the paragraph mark on the caption in the conditional text. martha At 03:40 PM 5/24/2006, Ariel Kahana wrote: >I am using Framemaker 7.2 on a Win XP SP2 platform. I have limited >experience with condition

Re: Conditional Text and Numbering

2006-05-24 Thread Martha J Davidson
When you apply the condition tag, make sure all text symbols are showing and that you include the paragraph mark on the caption in the conditional text. martha At 03:40 PM 5/24/2006, Ariel Kahana wrote: I am using Framemaker 7.2 on a Win XP SP2 platform. I have limited experience with condition

Re: Hyperlinks in Acrobat not present?

2006-05-17 Thread Martha J Davidson
At 04:14 PM 5/17/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not isolated this to the text insets, although that was my initial reaction to the problem. That's exactly it. Cross-references in text insets don't become clickable links in PDF. Unfortunately, that's how it's built. Is there any way to

Hyperlinks in Acrobat not present?

2006-05-17 Thread Martha J Davidson
At 04:14 PM 5/17/2006, Syed.Hosain at aeris.net wrote: >I have not isolated this to the text insets, although that was my initial >reaction to the problem. That's exactly it. Cross-references in text insets don't become clickable links in PDF. Unfortunately, that's how it's built. >Is there any w

Re: 2-pane Page in WebWorks Standard?

2006-05-08 Thread Martha J Davidson
It sounds like you might want to use the frameset version of the Dynamic HTML template. I have made this work when I configured it all in WWP Pro, then ran the template in WWP Standard. I'm not sure where in WWP Standard to find the settings that make this work. In the frameset version of the Dyn

2-pane Page in WebWorks Standard?

2006-05-08 Thread Martha J Davidson
It sounds like you might want to use the frameset version of the Dynamic HTML template. I have made this work when I configured it all in WWP Pro, then ran the template in WWP Standard. I'm not sure where in WWP Standard to find the settings that make this work. In the frameset version of the Dyna

Re: OT:Commenting in PDF files from Acrobat 6.0

2006-04-17 Thread Martha J Davidson
At 02:35 PM 4/17/2006, Jon Harvey wrote: Does 6.0 allow recipients to comment or does she have to upgrade to Acrobat 7.0 or 7.0 Pro? I have 7.0 Pro on my machine and haven't had any problems. That feature didn't come in until Acrobat Pro 7. -- Martha Jane {Kolman | Davidson} Dances With Words [

OT:Commenting in PDF files from Acrobat 6.0

2006-04-17 Thread Martha J Davidson
At 02:35 PM 4/17/2006, Jon Harvey wrote: >Does 6.0 allow recipients to comment or does she have to upgrade to >Acrobat 7.0 or 7.0 Pro? I have 7.0 Pro on my machine and haven't had any >problems. That feature didn't come in until Acrobat Pro 7. -- Martha Jane {Kolman | Davidson} Dances With Words e

RE: online help

2006-04-11 Thread Martha J Davidson
I also use WebWorks. Creating online help from FrameMaker source is a bit more complex than just running the source files through a WebWorks template. It involves some amount of planning and organizing your source files, choosing a help format you want to produce, and creating a WebWorks conversio

online help

2006-04-11 Thread Martha J Davidson
I also use WebWorks. Creating online help from FrameMaker source is a bit more complex than just running the source files through a WebWorks template. It involves some amount of planning and organizing your source files, choosing a help format you want to produce, and creating a WebWorks conversion

Re: Updating text with new paragraph tag settings

2006-04-07 Thread Martha J Davidson
Try File > Import > Formats, and select paragraph and character tags, imported from Current. Then select the check box for When Importing, Remove Other Format/Layout Overrides. That should do what you want. martha At 02:41 PM 4/7/2006, Karyn Hunt wrote: I have some very old chapters from some

Updating text with new paragraph tag settings

2006-04-07 Thread Martha J Davidson
Try File > Import > Formats, and select paragraph and character tags, imported from Current. Then select the check box for When Importing, Remove Other Format/Layout Overrides. That should do what you want. martha At 02:41 PM 4/7/2006, Karyn Hunt wrote: > I have some very old chapters from some

Re: Way to generate a list of Object Properties?

2006-03-27 Thread Martha J Davidson
To get a list of imported graphics, generate a List of References, and select Imported Graphics. You can do this for individual chapters or for a whole book. martha At 12:29 PM 3/27/2006, Denise Salles wrote: is anyone aware of a way to generate a list of the actual Object Properties (graphic n

Way to generate a list of Object Properties?

2006-03-27 Thread Martha J Davidson
To get a list of imported graphics, generate a List of References, and select Imported Graphics. You can do this for individual chapters or for a whole book. martha At 12:29 PM 3/27/2006, Denise Salles wrote: >is anyone aware of a way to generate a list of the actual Object Properties >(graphic n

RE: Anyone used Tortoise CVS with Frame Files

2006-03-15 Thread Martha J Davidson
At 09:00 AM 3/15/2006, Combs, Richard wrote: Martha misspoke -- when you check in, the file isn't _replaced_, the new version is _added_. Every version you check in is available in the repository. Thanks, Richard, for clarifying what I meant. -- Martha Jane {Kolman | Davidson} Dances With Word

Anyone used Tortoise CVS with Frame Files

2006-03-15 Thread Martha J Davidson
At 09:00 AM 3/15/2006, Combs, Richard wrote: >Martha misspoke -- when you check in, the file isn't _replaced_, the new >version is _added_. Every version you check in is available in the >repository. Thanks, Richard, for clarifying what I meant. -- Martha Jane {Kolman | Davidson} Dances With Word

Re: Anyone used Tortoise CVS with Frame Files

2006-03-15 Thread Martha J Davidson
At 05:31 PM 3/14/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And if the product manager has just decided to restore the functionality that was removed a few days ago, how do you retrieve the version of the FM file that contains the content you deleted when the function was removed? So far, that's never happ

Anyone used Tortoise CVS with Frame Files

2006-03-15 Thread Martha J Davidson
At 05:31 PM 3/14/2006, hedley.finger at myob.com wrote: >And if the product manager has just decided to restore the functionality >that was removed a few days ago, how do you retrieve the version of the FM >file that contains the content you deleted when the function was removed? So far, that's ne

Re: Losing colors during PDF conversion

2006-03-14 Thread Martha J Davidson
At 07:36 AM 3/14/2006, Doug Mckinney wrote: How can I get the FrameMaker-defined colors to retain their color through the PDF conversion process? Don't use the Generic PostScript printer; use Adobe PDF to create PDFs. Nothing else guarantees the results you are looking for. martha -- Martha Ja

Losing colors during PDF conversion

2006-03-14 Thread Martha J Davidson
At 07:36 AM 3/14/2006, Doug Mckinney wrote: >How can I get the FrameMaker-defined colors to retain their color through >the PDF conversion process? Don't use the Generic PostScript printer; use Adobe PDF to create PDFs. Nothing else guarantees the results you are looking for. martha -- Martha Jan

Re: Anyone used Tortoise CVS with Frame Files

2006-03-14 Thread Martha J Davidson
I use TortoiseCVS with Frame files. I mark both .fm and .book files as binary, so that each time I check in the entire file is replaced, and I don't use CVS Diff. Otherwise, everything works smoothly. What specific questions do you have? martha At 07:58 AM 3/14/2006, Neil Tubb wrote: Just wond

Anyone used Tortoise CVS with Frame Files

2006-03-14 Thread Martha J Davidson
I use TortoiseCVS with Frame files. I mark both .fm and .book files as binary, so that each time I check in the entire file is replaced, and I don't use CVS Diff. Otherwise, everything works smoothly. What specific questions do you have? martha At 07:58 AM 3/14/2006, Neil Tubb wrote: >Just wonde

Re: automating documentation builds

2006-02-22 Thread Martha J Davidson
Hi Peter, I guess I wasn't quite clear in my original post. I'm doing the entire doc build on a local machine--the only network access is checking the source files out of CVS and checking in the generated help and PDFs back into CVS. It looks like I have a solution, given to me offlist by Ric

automating documentation builds

2006-02-22 Thread Martha J Davidson
Hi Peter, I guess I wasn't quite clear in my original post. I'm doing the entire doc build on a local machine--the only network access is checking the source files out of CVS and checking in the generated help and PDFs back into CVS. It looks like I have a solution, given to me offlist by Rick

automating documentation builds

2006-02-21 Thread Martha J Davidson
Hi everyone, I'm in the process of automating the doc build process, creating both help (using WebWorks AutoMap) and PDFs. I'm using FM 7.2 and WWP2003, version 8.6, along with some custom FrameScripts written for my company by Rick Quatro. This runs on WinXP Pro, fully patched, with 1GB of me

automating documentation builds

2006-02-21 Thread Martha J Davidson
Hi everyone, I'm in the process of automating the doc build process, creating both help (using WebWorks AutoMap) and PDFs. I'm using FM 7.2 and WWP2003, version 8.6, along with some custom FrameScripts written for my company by Rick Quatro. This runs on WinXP Pro, fully patched, with 1GB of mem

Re: Cannot invoke OLE server?

2006-02-01 Thread Martha J Davidson
At 10:35 AM 2/1/2006, Andrew Becraft wrote: I've never had good luck with embedding my Visio diagrams as OLE objects. I don't have all that many Visio drawings in my doc set, but it's worked for me for 3 years to use OLE linking for them. It may not be as solid as saiving the drawings to EPS

Cannot invoke OLE server?

2006-02-01 Thread Martha J Davidson
At 10:35 AM 2/1/2006, Andrew Becraft wrote: >I've never had good luck with embedding my Visio diagrams as OLE objects. I don't have all that many Visio drawings in my doc set, but it's worked for me for 3 years to use OLE linking for them. It may not be as solid as saiving the drawings to EPS or

Re: FM driving me crazy!

2006-01-24 Thread Martha J Davidson
At 04:24 PM 1/24/2006, Joe Malin wrote: It's a generated file, List of Tables. I am setting its pagination from the book window, not from within the file itself. Only thing I can think of is to make sure the pagination settings are the same in the file and at the book level. Does that make a d

FM driving me crazy!

2006-01-24 Thread Martha J Davidson
At 04:24 PM 1/24/2006, Joe Malin wrote: >It's a generated file, List of Tables. I am setting its pagination from >the book window, not from within the file itself. Only thing I can think of is to make sure the pagination settings are the same in the file and at the book level. Does that make a di

RE: Setting Logical Page Numbering from FrameMaker

2006-01-17 Thread Martha J Davidson
At 11:04 AM 1/17/2006, Joe Malin wrote: Why do that now with a book that may never be put to paper? Instead, use sequential numbering starting with the Title page as 1. To preserve the style of front matter, perhaps use roman numerals, but then allow the first page of text to be something other t

Setting Logical Page Numbering from FrameMaker

2006-01-17 Thread Martha J Davidson
At 11:04 AM 1/17/2006, Joe Malin wrote: >Why do that now with a book that may never be put to paper? Instead, use >sequential numbering starting with the Title page as 1. To preserve the >style of front matter, perhaps use roman numerals, but then allow the >first page of text to be something other

Re: Installing Acrobat 7

2006-01-06 Thread Martha J Davidson
At 12:00 PM 1/6/2006, A wrote: I let Acrobat 7 do its thing and had no issues. It didn't require any gyrations like moving from 4 to 5, or from 5 to 6, did. I've ordered an upgrade from Acrobat 5.05 to Acrobat 7 Professional; does anyone know if installing that upgrade will go as smoothly as "A

Installing Acrobat 7

2006-01-06 Thread Martha J Davidson
At 12:00 PM 1/6/2006, A wrote: >I let Acrobat 7 do its thing and had no issues. It didn't require any >gyrations like moving from 4 to 5, or from 5 to 6, did. I've ordered an upgrade from Acrobat 5.05 to Acrobat 7 Professional; does anyone know if installing that upgrade will go as smoothly as "A"

RE: Framers Digest, Vol 1, Issue 8

2005-11-22 Thread Martha J Davidson
At 01:47 PM 11/22/2005, Lightle, Ed (OH) wrote: My questions is this: Is there a way to globally update markers in a FrameMaker document?  I use FM 6.0. Welcome to framers. This is a good place for questions. To make it easier, though, next time, delete all of the messages from the digest except

Framers Digest, Vol 1, Issue 8

2005-11-22 Thread Martha J Davidson
At 01:47 PM 11/22/2005, Lightle, Ed (OH) wrote: >My questions is this: Is there a way to globally update markers in a >FrameMaker document? I use FM 6.0. Welcome to framers. This is a good place for questions. To make it easier, though, next time, delete all of the messages from the digest exce

RE: TP for FM?

2005-11-21 Thread Martha J Davidson
I'd also add: * best practices (like no overrides and importing by reference) * single-sourcing (variables, conditional text, output formats) * structure (which I don't use yet, so no specific ideas) I like the idea of categories related to using the tool in general, in addition to ones like Kare

TP for FM?

2005-11-21 Thread Martha J Davidson
I'd also add: * best practices (like no overrides and importing by reference) * single-sourcing (variables, conditional text, output formats) * structure (which I don't use yet, so no specific ideas) I like the idea of categories related to using the tool in general, in addition to ones like Karen