how to italicize every instance of certain words

[Amy Barry]

Carol,

What about using variables for this?

 

 

 

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RE: how to italicize every instance of certain words

[Laurie Little]

Couldn't you just use variables? You can include character formats as part
of the variable definition. You could keep a Frame file with all the
variables and import them into documents as required.
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At 14:13 -0600 25/6/12, Carol J. Elkins wrote:

Framers, I'm looking for ideas on how to ensure that certain words and
phrases in a document are always italicized whenever they are used. Perhaps
someone knows of a script that will do this.

 If not, I'll ask Rick when he gets back on his feet. Ideally, there would
be an external master list of the words to be italicized.

Restrictions: I'm not willing to do a search/replace operation every time a
working document is revised. And I'm not willing to do anything more than
type a word in the working document for it to be recognized as needing
italics. Although I have Silicon Prairie's Autotext add-on, I don't think
that it does what I need.



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RE: how to italicize every instance of certain words

[Carol J. Elkins]

As I indicated in the restrictions, I don't want to do more than 
type the word. I'm aware that variables would work, but there are a 
zillion instances of these words and I do not want to locate and 
insert a variable for each instance. For this exercise, I was hoping 
to learn about scripts, add-ons, or programs that work external to 
Framemaker. Thanks, though.


Carol

At 12:02 PM 6/26/2012, Laurie Little wrote:

Couldn't you just use variables?


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how to italicize every instance of certain words

[Laurie Little]

Couldn't you just use variables? You can include character formats as part
of the variable definition. You could keep a Frame file with all the
variables and import them into documents as required.
Laurie




At 14:13 -0600 25/6/12, Carol J. Elkins wrote:

>Framers, I'm looking for ideas on how to ensure that certain words and
phrases in a document are always italicized whenever they are used. Perhaps
someone knows of a script that will do this.

> If not, I'll ask Rick when he gets back on his feet. Ideally, there would
be an external master list of the words to be italicized.

>Restrictions: I'm not willing to do a search/replace operation every time a
working document is revised. And I'm not willing to do anything more than
type a word in the working document for it to be recognized as needing
italics. Although I have Silicon Prairie's Autotext add-on, I don't think
that it does what I need.

how to italicize every instance of certain words

[Carol J. Elkins]

As I indicated in the "restrictions," I don't want to do more than 
type the word. I'm aware that variables would work, but there are a 
zillion instances of these words and I do not want to locate and 
insert a variable for each instance. For this exercise, I was hoping 
to learn about scripts, add-ons, or programs that work external to 
Framemaker. Thanks, though.

Carol

At 12:02 PM 6/26/2012, Laurie Little wrote:
>Couldn't you just use variables?

how to italicize every instance of certain words

[Amy Barry]

Carol,

What about using variables for this?







Amy M. Barry

Lead Desktop Publisher

XMCO INC.

5501 Enterprise Ct. Suite 400

Warren, MI 48092

Phone: (586) 558-8510 ext. 146

Fax:  (586) 558-8573

  abarry at xmcoinc.com









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[Carol J. Elkins]

Framers, I'm looking for ideas on how to ensure that certain words 
and phrases in a document are always italicized whenever they are 
used. Perhaps someone knows of a script that will do this. If not, 
I'll ask Rick when he gets back on his feet. Ideally, there would be 
an external master list of the words to be italicized. When opened, 
the working file would access the master list of words and make sure 
that any word in the list is italicized when it appears in the 
working document. I should be able to add to the master list of 
words; I'm not concerned about what happens if I delete a word from 
the master list.


Restrictions: I'm not willing to do a search/replace operation every 
time a working document is revised. And I'm not willing to do 
anything more than type a word in the working document for it to be 
recognized as needing italics. Although I have Silicon Prairie's 
Autotext add-on, I don't think that it does what I need. I have a 
vague memory of MSWord or some elderly word processor (the only kind 
I'm familiar with since I'm elderly) having this functionality.


Any ideas?

Carol



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Re: how to italicize every instance of certain words

[Steve Rickaby]

At 14:13 -0600 25/6/12, Carol J. Elkins wrote:

Framers, I'm looking for ideas on how to ensure that certain words and phrases 
in a document are always italicized whenever they are used. Perhaps someone 
knows of a script that will do this.

FramScript or structured FrameMaker would be my guess. The former would 
probably engender less pain.

 If not, I'll ask Rick when he gets back on his feet. Ideally, there would be 
 an external master list of the words to be italicized.

Ah: probably definitely FrameScript then.

Restrictions: I'm not willing to do a search/replace operation every time a 
working document is revised. And I'm not willing to do anything more than type 
a word in the working document for it to be recognized as needing italics. 
Although I have Silicon Prairie's Autotext add-on, I don't think that it does 
what I need.

No, you're right: although a wonderful timer-saver, it can't do that.

-- 
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RE: how to italicize every instance of certain words

[Owen, Clint]

Carol,

I used to have a plugin Called WordChecker  from Seatech Publications that 
would do this. You could set up an Auto Complete type of function so that it 
would correct each target word as you typed it the first time, or it would go 
through the document after you finished and match your text against a target 
list. We used it on FM 7.0 and I don't know if they are still in business or 
not.

Clint


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Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 1:13 PM
To: fram...@omsys.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: how to italicize every instance of certain words

Framers, I'm looking for ideas on how to ensure that certain words and phrases 
in a document are always italicized whenever they are used. Perhaps someone 
knows of a script that will do this. If not, I'll ask Rick when he gets back on 
his feet. Ideally, there would be an external master list of the words to be 
italicized. When opened, the working file would access the master list of words 
and make sure that any word in the list is italicized when it appears in the 
working document. I should be able to add to the master list of words; I'm not 
concerned about what happens if I delete a word from the master list.

Restrictions: I'm not willing to do a search/replace operation every time a 
working document is revised. And I'm not willing to do anything more than type 
a word in the working document for it to be recognized as needing italics. 
Although I have Silicon Prairie's Autotext add-on, I don't think that it does 
what I need. I have a vague memory of MSWord or some elderly word processor 
(the only kind I'm familiar with since I'm elderly) having this functionality.

Any ideas?

Carol



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Re: how to italicize every instance of certain words

[MamaRed Knight]

Hey there Clint...just went looking for that one and this page says they
are no longer commercially supporting it (sad face):
http://www.seatechpubs.com/s4/page43.htm

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Owen, Clint
clint.o...@craneaerospace.comwrote:

 Carol,

 I used to have a plugin Called WordChecker  from Seatech Publications that
 would do this. You could set up an Auto Complete type of function so that
 it would correct each target word as you typed it the first time, or it
 would go through the document after you finished and match your text
 against a target list. We used it on FM 7.0 and I don't know if they are
 still in business or not.

 Clint



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Re: how to italicize every instance of certain words

[Kenneth C. Benson]

Not sure if this helps at all; I'm just thinking out loud.

Indesign has had a feature for the last few versions called GREP styles. 
I've used it to do exactly what Carol wants to do: highlight certain 
words or word combinations (maybe even in certain places, or 
followed/preceded by certain characters). When you want to add a new 
word, you just add a new GREP style. GREP styles are applied on the fly 
all the time (i.e., once the GREP style is made, it applies itself 
without any further user intervention).


Has anyone ever heard of a GREP style add-on for Frame?

Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type
www.pegtype.com


On 6/25/2012 4:13 PM, Carol J. Elkins wrote:
Framers, I'm looking for ideas on how to ensure that certain words and 
phrases in a document are always italicized whenever they are used. 
Perhaps someone knows of a script that will do this. If not, I'll ask 
Rick when he gets back on his feet. Ideally, there would be an 
external master list of the words to be italicized. When opened, the 
working file would access the master list of words and make sure that 
any word in the list is italicized when it appears in the working 
document. I should be able to add to the master list of words; I'm not 
concerned about what happens if I delete a word from the master list.


Restrictions: I'm not willing to do a search/replace operation every 
time a working document is revised. And I'm not willing to do anything 
more than type a word in the working document for it to be recognized 
as needing italics. Although I have Silicon Prairie's Autotext add-on, 
I don't think that it does what I need. I have a vague memory of 
MSWord or some elderly word processor (the only kind I'm familiar with 
since I'm elderly) having this functionality.


Any ideas?

Carol



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how to italicize every instance of certain words

[Carol J. Elkins]

Framers, I'm looking for ideas on how to ensure that certain words 
and phrases in a document are always italicized whenever they are 
used. Perhaps someone knows of a script that will do this. If not, 
I'll ask Rick when he gets back on his feet. Ideally, there would be 
an external master list of the words to be italicized. When opened, 
the working file would access the master list of words and make sure 
that any word in the list is italicized when it appears in the 
working document. I should be able to add to the master list of 
words; I'm not concerned about what happens if I delete a word from 
the master list.

Restrictions: I'm not willing to do a search/replace operation every 
time a working document is revised. And I'm not willing to do 
anything more than type a word in the working document for it to be 
recognized as needing italics. Although I have Silicon Prairie's 
Autotext add-on, I don't think that it does what I need. I have a 
vague memory of MSWord or some elderly word processor (the only kind 
I'm familiar with since I'm elderly) having this functionality.

Any ideas?

Carol



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how to italicize every instance of certain words

[Steve Rickaby]

At 14:13 -0600 25/6/12, Carol J. Elkins wrote:

>Framers, I'm looking for ideas on how to ensure that certain words and phrases 
>in a document are always italicized whenever they are used. Perhaps someone 
>knows of a script that will do this.

FramScript or structured FrameMaker would be my guess. The former would 
probably engender less pain.

> If not, I'll ask Rick when he gets back on his feet. Ideally, there would be 
> an external master list of the words to be italicized.

Ah: probably definitely FrameScript then.

>Restrictions: I'm not willing to do a search/replace operation every time a 
>working document is revised. And I'm not willing to do anything more than type 
>a word in the working document for it to be recognized as needing italics. 
>Although I have Silicon Prairie's Autotext add-on, I don't think that it does 
>what I need.

No, you're right: although a wonderful timer-saver, it can't do that.

-- 
Steve

how to italicize every instance of certain words

[Owen, Clint]

Carol,

I used to have a plugin Called WordChecker  from Seatech Publications that 
would do this. You could set up an Auto Complete type of function so that it 
would correct each target word as you typed it the first time, or it would go 
through the document after you finished and match your text against a target 
list. We used it on FM 7.0 and I don't know if they are still in business or 
not.

Clint


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Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 1:13 PM
To: framers at omsys.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: how to italicize every instance of certain words

Framers, I'm looking for ideas on how to ensure that certain words and phrases 
in a document are always italicized whenever they are used. Perhaps someone 
knows of a script that will do this. If not, I'll ask Rick when he gets back on 
his feet. Ideally, there would be an external master list of the words to be 
italicized. When opened, the working file would access the master list of words 
and make sure that any word in the list is italicized when it appears in the 
working document. I should be able to add to the master list of words; I'm not 
concerned about what happens if I delete a word from the master list.

Restrictions: I'm not willing to do a search/replace operation every time a 
working document is revised. And I'm not willing to do anything more than type 
a word in the working document for it to be recognized as needing italics. 
Although I have Silicon Prairie's Autotext add-on, I don't think that it does 
what I need. I have a vague memory of MSWord or some elderly word processor 
(the only kind I'm familiar with since I'm elderly) having this functionality.

Any ideas?

Carol



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how to italicize every instance of certain words

[MamaRed Knight]

Hey there Clint...just went looking for that one and this page says they
are no longer commercially supporting it (sad face):
http://www.seatechpubs.com/s4/page43.htm

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Owen, Clint
wrote:

> Carol,
>
> I used to have a plugin Called WordChecker  from Seatech Publications that
> would do this. You could set up an Auto Complete type of function so that
> it would correct each target word as you typed it the first time, or it
> would go through the document after you finished and match your text
> against a target list. We used it on FM 7.0 and I don't know if they are
> still in business or not.
>
> Clint
>
>
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how to italicize every instance of certain words

[Kenneth C. Benson]

Not sure if this helps at all; I'm just thinking out loud.

Indesign has had a feature for the last few versions called GREP styles. 
I've used it to do exactly what Carol wants to do: highlight certain 
words or word combinations (maybe even in certain places, or 
followed/preceded by certain characters). When you want to add a new 
word, you just add a new GREP style. GREP styles are applied on the fly 
all the time (i.e., once the GREP style is made, it applies itself 
without any further user intervention).

Has anyone ever heard of a GREP style add-on for Frame?

Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type
www.pegtype.com


On 6/25/2012 4:13 PM, Carol J. Elkins wrote:
> Framers, I'm looking for ideas on how to ensure that certain words and 
> phrases in a document are always italicized whenever they are used. 
> Perhaps someone knows of a script that will do this. If not, I'll ask 
> Rick when he gets back on his feet. Ideally, there would be an 
> external master list of the words to be italicized. When opened, the 
> working file would access the master list of words and make sure that 
> any word in the list is italicized when it appears in the working 
> document. I should be able to add to the master list of words; I'm not 
> concerned about what happens if I delete a word from the master list.
>
> Restrictions: I'm not willing to do a search/replace operation every 
> time a working document is revised. And I'm not willing to do anything 
> more than type a word in the working document for it to be recognized 
> as needing italics. Although I have Silicon Prairie's Autotext add-on, 
> I don't think that it does what I need. I have a vague memory of 
> MSWord or some elderly word processor (the only kind I'm familiar with 
> since I'm elderly) having this functionality.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Carol
>
>
>
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