Re: Odd maths font problem... more

2007-09-04 Thread Steve Rickaby
Further... if anyone is following this... there appear to two different Symbol fonts: . That installed here with FrameMaker 7.0 on Mac appears to be copyright Apple Computer and also appears to be Unicode . That used by the originator of the documents appears to be copyright Monotype/Type

Re: Odd maths font problem... more

2007-09-04 Thread Paul Findon
On 4 Sep 2007, at 10:23, Steve Rickaby wrote: I have a workaround for the 'bad' equations, which is to use the author's PDFs and import them into the target FrameMaker document, but I absolutely need to diagnose this problem for the future. I have worked with FrameMaker equations

Conditional Text problem on Frame 7.1 on Win XP Professional

2007-09-04 Thread David Schor
Is there a bug or limitation regarding FrameMaker Conditional Text Tag names? I received a base document with several different conditions reflecting various model names within the same product family. Examples of tag names are: ABC2024 ABC224D ABC208 ADE208 ADE224 AFG208 and so on After setting

Re: Conditional Text problem on Frame 7.1 on Win XP Professional

2007-09-04 Thread Yves Barbion
Hi David, check the Show/Hide settings in WebWorks Publisher, not in FrameMaker. I don't know which version of WebWorks you are using, but remember a bug WebWorks 7 where the Show/Hide settings didn't work for a complete FrameMaker book. I had to select a specific file in my WebWorks project and

Re: Odd maths font problem... solved!

2007-09-04 Thread Steve Rickaby
A friend suggest the following: 'Are you certain the author is using Symbol for his equations? Other typefaces probably contain math symbols.' He was right. I remembered where to go in the bowels of the Equation Editor to find out the default fonts, and lo! The originator of the documents not

Re: batch processing of large numbers of text files?

2007-09-04 Thread Chris Borokowski
EditPad is also a good contender: http://www.editpadlite.com/ --- David Spreadbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One such option, for Windows users, is TextPad (www.textpad.com). Very useful when editing multiple ASCII files. I ue it to perform operations across a complete folder of HTML

Re: Conditional Text problem on Frame 7.1 on Win XP Professional

2007-09-04 Thread David Schor
Silly me. Turned out the Visible/Hidden settings in the Conditions dialog box were the culprit. Now I know, and I generated the help versions successfully. Thanks a million, Yves! David David Schor Senior Technical Writer MSSI - Marvell Software Solutions Israel Tel: (+972) 3 7662823 Cellular:

White paper on bleeding thumb tabs

2007-09-04 Thread Reng, Winfried Dr.
Hi, On the FrameUser.com web-site there is supposed to be a white pager which explains how to switch bleeding thumb tabs automatically. There should also be a FrameScript script. However, I cannot access neither of them. The web-site opens completely different pages. Does anyone have this white

RE: Can't save a file in FM 7.2--Thanks!

2007-09-04 Thread Nina Rogers
Hi, and thanks to all who responded to my question about saving files. It was indeed an issue with the network configurations and permissions. Nina ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL

RE: Conditional Text problem on Frame 7.1 on Win XP Professional

2007-09-04 Thread Diane Schaefer
I noticed the same problem with show+hide. Is there a limit to the number of conditionals Frame 7.X supports? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Schor Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 3:40 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com; [EMAIL

Importing PPT slideshows

2007-09-04 Thread Madeleine Reardon Dimond
I work for a courseware department that makes PowerPoint slideshows and then imports the slides to Framemaker as OLE links to make their printed books. This process makes huge, unstable files that take forever to update. When I asked why they didn't use Frame's Import by Reference feature, I was

cursor display oddity

2007-09-04 Thread rebecca officer
Hi everyone I just noticed something weird that our documents have probably been doing for years and just wondered if other people see the same weirdness. If we type a space at the beginning of a paragraph, the cursor looks like it jumps to the right margin. But it only looks that way. If we

Re: Sequential page numbers on alternate pages

2007-09-04 Thread kevinf
Hello, Yes, all good points I came to on my own in the last few days. The stickiest part of all of this is any requirement for special impositioning tricks. XPress can manage two flows, one linked by hand, on one wide page, and that system will work all right in translation, but the pages require

Re: Sequential page numbers on alternate pages

2007-09-04 Thread Fred Ridder
I'm not sure the situation is as grim as you think. I think the 2-page spread approach gets you most of the way there. It should be quite easy to prepare English-only or translation- only versions very by importing the appropriate flow into a conventional, single-page template. (Remember that

Curmudgeon's Corner: "alternate pages"

2007-09-04 Thread Hedley Finger
I would like to congratulate the correspondents recently discussing page numbering on "alternate pages" for getting it right. "Alternate" means "by turns", or "alternating between one item and another item", and so on. So many people seem to think it is a synonym of "alternative". Not so:

Odd maths font problem... more

2007-09-04 Thread Steve Rickaby
Further... if anyone is following this... there appear to two different Symbol fonts: . That installed here with FrameMaker 7.0 on Mac appears to be copyright Apple Computer and also appears to be Unicode . That used by the originator of the documents appears to be copyright Monotype/Type

Odd maths font problem... more

2007-09-04 Thread Paul Findon
On 4 Sep 2007, at 10:23, Steve Rickaby wrote: > I have a workaround for the 'bad' equations, which is to use the > author's PDFs and import them into the target FrameMaker document, > but I absolutely need to diagnose this problem for the future. I > have worked with FrameMaker equations

Conditional Text problem on Frame 7.1 on Win XP Professional

2007-09-04 Thread David Schor
Is there a bug or limitation regarding FrameMaker Conditional Text Tag names? I received a base document with several different conditions reflecting various model names within the same product family. Examples of tag names are: ABC2024 ABC224D ABC208 ADE208 ADE224 AFG208 and so on After setting

Conditional Text problem on Frame 7.1 on Win XP Professional

2007-09-04 Thread Yves Barbion
Hi David, check the Show/Hide settings in WebWorks Publisher, not in FrameMaker. I don't know which version of WebWorks you are using, but remember a bug WebWorks 7 where the Show/Hide settings didn't work for a complete FrameMaker book. I had to select a specific file in my WebWorks project and

Odd maths font problem... solved!

2007-09-04 Thread Steve Rickaby
A friend suggest the following: 'Are you certain the author is using Symbol for his equations? Other typefaces probably contain math symbols.' He was right. I remembered where to go in the bowels of the Equation Editor to find out the default fonts, and lo! The originator of the documents not

batch processing of large numbers of text files?

2007-09-04 Thread Chris Borokowski
EditPad is also a good contender: http://www.editpadlite.com/ --- David Spreadbury wrote: > One such option, for Windows users, is TextPad (www.textpad.com). > > Very useful when editing multiple ASCII files. I ue it to perform > operations across a complete folder of HTML files on a

Conditional Text problem on Frame 7.1 on Win XP Professional

2007-09-04 Thread David Schor
Silly me. Turned out the Visible/Hidden settings in the Conditions dialog box were the culprit. Now I know, and I generated the help versions successfully. Thanks a million, Yves! David David Schor Senior Technical Writer MSSI - Marvell Software Solutions Israel Tel: (+972) 3 7662823 Cellular:

White paper on bleeding thumb tabs

2007-09-04 Thread Reng, Winfried Dr.
Hi, On the FrameUser.com web-site there is supposed to be a white pager which explains how to switch bleeding thumb tabs automatically. There should also be a FrameScript script. However, I cannot access neither of them. The web-site opens completely different pages. Does anyone have this white

Can't save a file in FM 7.2--Thanks!

2007-09-04 Thread Nina Rogers
Hi, and thanks to all who responded to my question about saving files. It was indeed an issue with the network configurations and permissions. Nina

Conditional Text problem on Frame 7.1 on Win XP Professional

2007-09-04 Thread Diane Schaefer
I noticed the same problem with show+hide. Is there a limit to the number of conditionals Frame 7.X supports? -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+dschaefer=sandvine@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+dschaefer=sandvine.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of David

Importing PPT slideshows

2007-09-04 Thread Madeleine Reardon Dimond
I work for a courseware department that makes PowerPoint slideshows and then imports the slides to Framemaker as OLE links to make their printed books. This process makes huge, unstable files that take forever to update. When I asked why they didn't use Frame's Import by Reference feature, I was

Sequential page numbers on alternate pages

2007-09-04 Thread kev...@dim.com
Hello, Yes, all good points I came to on my own in the last few days. The stickiest part of all of this is any requirement for "special impositioning tricks." XPress can manage two flows, one linked by hand, on one wide page, and that system will work all right in translation, but the pages

Sequential page numbers on alternate pages

2007-09-04 Thread Fred Ridder
I'm not sure the situation is as grim as you think. I think the 2-page spread approach gets you most of the way there. It should be quite easy to prepare English-only or translation- only versions very by importing the appropriate flow into a conventional, single-page template. (Remember that the