Strange behavior when opening frop down lists in dialog boxes

Good morning all, FM 7.0 Windows XP This strange thing is happening in dialog boxes. I wonder if it has always been this way (not logical) and I never noticed or this is some new. weird, skewed behavior. When first opening a dialog (for instance, the Character Designer) it takes more than

Notation 'tiff' was referenced but never declared

Good time of day, There is an XSD-file in the structapps.fm. In this file a reference exists to another XSD-file xs:include schemaLocation=common.xsd/ And in common.xsd all notations are defined. At attempting to open XML-file with !ENTITY qqq SYSTEM qqq.tif NDATA tiff FrameMaker 8 issues

RE: Strange behavior when opening frop down lists in dialog boxes

Leah, I believe this is known behaviour when using the Windows Classic theme in XP. Could this be your situation? Phil Heron -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leah Smaller Sent: 10 October 2007 07:52 To: Frame Users Subject: Strange

Solved! Strange behavior when open drop down lists

Solved! Using the 'Windows Classic' theme display in Windows XP causes this behavior. Leah Smaller Technical Communicator Certified Feldenkrais Method practitioner [EMAIL PROTECTED] What you truly learn best will appear to you later as your own discovery. (Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais)

Changing text styles

I remember doing this once before but can find the reference in the book; how can I change a unique string of text from regular type to bold within a document. I would like to find every reference of lets say ABC Company, Inc. and change it to bold with a replace function of some sort. Any

RE: Changing text styles

Scott White wrote: I remember doing this once before but can find the reference in the book; how can I change a unique string of text from regular type to bold within a document. I would like to find every reference of lets say ABC Company, Inc. and change it to bold with a replace

Re: Changing text styles

Create a string in a file that looks the way you want it to. Define and copy it. In the SR window, search for the string and replace by pasting. Art On 10/10/07, Scott White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember doing this once before but can find the reference in the book; how can I change a

RE: Changing text styles

Scott White wrote: I would like to find every reference of lets say ABC Company, Inc. and change it to bold with a replace function of some sort. I should have also mentioned that a better long-term solution might be to create a CompanyName variable defined as boldABC Company, Inc. That

Re: Italics dropping out of TOC

I got no response to the below post. Is this such a well-known FrameMaker bug that it merits no response? Did I get you all on a bad day? Or am I just being a dunce? Don't answer that last one. --W William Abernathy wrote: I assume there is some very important reason for the following

RE: Notation 'tiff' was referenced but never declared

Andrey - Whatever schema/DTD is being used in FrameMaker does not declare the graphic notation TIFF as valid. For example, a DTD would need to include a line such as : !NOTATION tiff PUBLIC -//ALDUS//NOTATION Tagged Image File Format//EN On Wednesday, October 10, 2007 03:23 AM, Andrey

Re: Italics dropping out of TOC

William Abernathy wrote: I got no response to the below post. Is this such a well-known FrameMaker bug that it merits no response? Did I get you all on a bad day? Or am I just being a dunce? Don't answer that last one. (d) Both (a) and (b). As I understand it, William, this is not a bug;

Re: Strange behavior when opening frop down lists in dialog boxes

Hi Leah - I had the same problem. Do you have the display theme set to Windows Classic? That's what was causing it for me. I had to change the theme to Windows XP (which I don't like but at least the menus work correctly). Pat Christenson On Oct 9, 2007, at 11:52 PM, Leah Smaller wrote:

Re: Italics dropping out of TOC

Hi, William: It's not completely clear to me how you are applying the character format. A little more information would help the troubleshooting efforts. Are you using a building block like char_format_name to the TOC entry prototype line(s) on the TOC Reference page, or are you applying the

RE: Italics dropping out of TOC

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understand it, William, this is not a bug; FM is working as designed. Formatting overrides are not carried over to generated files, so your CTRL-I has no effect in the TOC. Character tags *are* carried over to generated files, so your italic tag does

Re: Italics dropping out of TOC

Hi William, I have solved this problem with two different methods in the past. 1) Use an Acrobat JavaScript script to extend the short links in the PDF file. 2) Use a FrameScript script to duplicate the Hypertext marker at each character property change in each TOC paragraph. I prefer the

Re: Strange behavior when opening frop down lists in dialog boxes

Hi, I also faced this problem. But, I worked on a remote pc and used Microsoft Remote Desktop. I never faced this problem on a local machine. Is your FM installed on a remote PC? -- Himanshu http://hellotw.freeforums.org/index.php On 10/10/07, Leah Smaller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good

Any experience with TrackChanges tool from Integrated Technologies

Wondering if anyone has experience using Track Changes from integrated technologies. Could you share your impressions with me? Thanks, Ron Ron Miller Freelance Technology Writing Since 1988 Contributing Editor, EContent Magazine email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] blog: http://byronmiller.typepad.com

looking for conditional text scenarios

Greetings, Here at Adobe we're looking for real-world uses of conditional text. We'd be very interested in a summary of some of the interesting uses out there, including the condition tags you've defined and the output desired. We'd also like to hear of any limitations you've encountered in

RE: Any experience with TrackChanges tool from Integrated Technologies

Frame 8 has track changes built in. -Gillian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Miller Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 5:58 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Any experience with TrackChanges tool from Integrated

Re: Any experience with TrackChanges tool from Integrated Technologies

I played with a beta of it some time ago. The code I had didn't work well and crashed FM. I didn't purchase it. Of course, YMMV; they may have worked out all the kinks. But it wasn't as smoothly integrated as the built-in in Rev 8. Art On 10/10/07, Ron Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wondering

radical revamping of techpubs

Hi, I would like to see what the group thinks of this scenario for writing documentation within a company? 1. Remove all existing tech writing staff from techpubs. 2. Replace these with software developers and specialists who know the software inside out and get them to write all of the

FM6 on Vista and MicroType Toolbar Express

Hello, I´ve just began using FM 6 on Vista and the program runs fine after installing the Adobe fixes. But I cannot get the MicroType Toolbar to work (I downloaded the free version some years ago and have had great use of it). I copied the maker.ini and the files to another computer running XP

RE: radical revamping of techpubs

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 of the

Re: radical revamping of techpubs

On a personal basis, it'd mean that if anyone in management was even floating the idea, that it's past time to rev your resume because the company ain't going to be around long. ;- ) Art On 10/10/07, mulholland4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to see what the group thinks of this

Re: radical revamping of techpubs

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

RE: radical revamping of techpubs

Good Day Mulholland, Sorry, in my opinion the plan is not in the best interest of the customers. There is far more to writing documentation than knowing the application being developed. Will the documentation be print (or Acrobat files), or online help? Each format has a different structure and

Re: radical revamping of techpubs

Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me -- at least as far as the customer is concerned. Although the company might enjoy a short-term savings, they'll pay for it in the longer term in increased support costs (unless they off-shore that too) and customer dissatisfaction. ...Susan -

Re: Italics dropping out of TOC

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:43:42 -0700, William Abernathy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this such a well-known FrameMaker bug that it merits no response? That's probably the consensus. But, IIRC, there *is* a workaround for your specific case. You can't use a char format (for the reasons everyone

Re: radical revamping of techpubs

My prediction is that it will be a partial disaster, and then they'll hire a contractor to come clean up. Few companies are interested in keeping technical writers around full time, since they're only needed at the end of the design process. They want dual roles, such as project manager technical

RE: radical revamping of techpubs

This will be a complete train wreck. Here's why: 1. The Developers have no idea how to organize the information 2. When they write, they are completely illiterate. In my company, the Developers write specs for me on each new feature. They are so illiterate, that I always have to go to

Re: radical revamping of techpubs

At 15:54 -0400 10/10/07, mulholland4 wrote: I would like to see what the group thinks of this scenario for writing documentation within a company? Off-hand I would hazard a guess that any company trying this would reap the rewards quite quickly. -- Steve

Re: radical revamping of techpubs

1. Remove all existing tech writing staff from techpubs. 2. Replace these with software developers and specialists who know the software inside out and get them to write all of the documentation. These would now be known as Developer-techwriters. (It should be noted that none of these people

Re: radical revamping of techpubs

I don't buy your few companies generalization. Perhaps small pre-IPO companies and the like, but I've not met an established company that didn't have a solid tech writing staff in place. On 10/10/07, Chris Borokowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My prediction is that it will be a partial disaster,

Strange behavior when opening frop down lists in dialog boxes

Good morning all, FM 7.0 Windows XP This strange thing is happening in dialog boxes. I wonder if it has always been this way (not logical) and I never noticed or this is some new. weird, skewed behavior. When first opening a dialog (for instance, the Character Designer) it takes more than

Notation 'tiff' was referenced but never declared

Good time of day, There is an XSD-file in the structapps.fm. In this file a reference exists to another XSD-file > And in common.xsd all notations are defined. At attempting to open XML-file with > FrameMaker 8 issues the message: > "Error at line 5, char 16, Message: Notation 'tiff' was

Strange behavior when opening frop down lists in dialog boxes

Leah, I believe this is known behaviour when using the "Windows Classic" theme in XP. Could this be your situation? Phil Heron -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+phil.heron=coda@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+phil.heron=coda.com at lists.frameusers.com] On

Solved! Strange behavior when open drop down lists

Solved! Using the 'Windows Classic' theme display in Windows XP causes this behavior. Leah Smaller Technical Communicator Certified Feldenkrais Method practitioner leah at compulite.com "What you truly learn best will appear to you later as your own discovery." (Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais)

Changing text styles

I remember doing this once before but can find the reference in the book; how can I change a unique string of text from regular type to bold within a document. I would like to find every reference of lets say ABC Company, Inc. and change it to bold with a replace function of some sort. Any

Changing text styles

Scott White wrote: > I remember doing this once before but can find the reference > in the book; how can I change a unique string of text from > regular type to bold within a document. > I would like to find every reference of lets say ABC Company, Inc. > and change it to bold with a replace

Changing text styles

Create a string in a file that looks the way you want it to. Define and copy it. In the S window, search for the string and replace by pasting. Art On 10/10/07, Scott White wrote: > I remember doing this once before but can find the reference in the > book; how can I change a unique string of

Changing text styles

Hi Scott, you can do this as follows: 1. Create a character format, for example , in which you only specify that Weight should be Bold. Make sure that the other properties (Family, Size, Angle...) are set to As Is. You can easily do this by clicking outside the text frame

Changing text styles

Scott White wrote: > I would like to find every reference of lets say ABC Company, Inc. > and change it to bold with a replace function of some sort. I should have also mentioned that a better long-term solution might be to create a CompanyName variable defined as ABC Company, Inc. That way,

Italics dropping out of TOC

I got no response to the below post. Is this such a well-known FrameMaker bug that it merits no response? Did I get you all on a bad day? Or am I just being a dunce? Don't answer that last one. --W William Abernathy wrote: > I assume there is some very important reason for the following

Notation 'tiff' was referenced but never declared

Andrey - Whatever schema/DTD is being used in FrameMaker does not declare the graphic notation TIFF as valid. For example, a DTD would need to include a line such as : On Wednesday, October 10, 2007 03:23 AM, Andrey 'ABacus' Bondarenko wrote: | Good time of day, | | There is an XSD-file in

Italics dropping out of TOC

William Abernathy wrote: > I got no response to the below post. Is this such a well-known > FrameMaker bug that it merits no response? Did I get you all on a bad > day? Or am I just being a dunce? > > Don't answer that last one. (d) Both (a) and (b). As I understand it, William, this is not a

Strange behavior when opening frop down lists in dialog boxes

Hi Leah - I had the same problem. Do you have the display theme set to Windows Classic? That's what was causing it for me. I had to change the theme to Windows XP (which I don't like but at least the menus work correctly). Pat Christenson On Oct 9, 2007, at 11:52 PM, Leah Smaller wrote:

Italics dropping out of TOC

Hi, William: It's not completely clear to me how you are applying the character format. A little more information would help the troubleshooting efforts. Are you using a building block like to the TOC entry prototype line(s) on the TOC Reference page, or are you applying the character format to

Italics dropping out of TOC

srogers at phoenix-geophysics.com wrote: > > As I understand it, William, this is not a bug; FM is working as > designed. Formatting overrides are not carried over to generated files, > so your CTRL-I has no effect in the TOC. > > Character tags *are* carried over to generated files, so your

Italics dropping out of TOC

Hi William, I have solved this problem with two different methods in the past. 1) Use an Acrobat JavaScript script to extend the short links in the PDF file. 2) Use a FrameScript script to duplicate the Hypertext marker at each character property change in each TOC paragraph. I prefer the

Strange behavior when opening frop down lists in dialog boxes

Hi, I also faced this problem. But, I worked on a remote pc and used Microsoft Remote Desktop. I never faced this problem on a local machine. Is your FM installed on a remote PC? -- Himanshu http://hellotw.freeforums.org/index.php On 10/10/07, Leah Smaller wrote: > Good morning all, > > FM

Any experience with TrackChanges tool from Integrated Technologies

Wondering if anyone has experience using Track Changes from integrated technologies. Could you share your impressions with me? Thanks, Ron Ron Miller Freelance Technology Writing Since 1988 Contributing Editor, EContent Magazine email: ronsmiller at ronsmiller.com blog:

looking for conditional text scenarios

Greetings, Here at Adobe we're looking for real-world uses of conditional text. We'd be very interested in a summary of some of the interesting uses out there, including the condition tags you've defined and the output desired. We'd also like to hear of any limitations you've encountered in

Any experience with TrackChanges tool from Integrated Technologies

Frame 8 has track changes built in. -Gillian -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+gflato=nanometrics@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+gflato=nanometrics.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Ron Miller Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 5:58 AM To: framers at

Any experience with TrackChanges tool from Integrated Technologies

I played with a beta of it some time ago. The code I had didn't work well and crashed FM. I didn't purchase it. Of course, YMMV; they may have worked out all the kinks. But it wasn't as smoothly integrated as the built-in in Rev 8. Art On 10/10/07, Ron Miller wrote: > Wondering if anyone has

radical revamping of techpubs

Hi, I would like to see what the group thinks of this scenario for writing documentation within a company? 1. Remove all existing tech writing staff from techpubs. 2. Replace these with software developers and specialists who know the software inside out and get them to write all of the

radical revamping of techpubs

Good Day Mulholland, Sorry, in my opinion the plan is not in the best interest of the customers. There is far more to "writing documentation" than knowing the application being developed. Will the documentation be print (or Acrobat files), or online help? Each format has a different structure

radical revamping of techpubs

At 15:54 -0400 10/10/07, mulholland4 wrote: >I would like to see what the group thinks of this scenario for writing >documentation within a company? Off-hand I would hazard a guess that any company trying this would reap the rewards quite quickly. -- Steve

radical revamping of techpubs

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" wrote: Good Day Mulholland, Sorry, in my opinion the plan is not in the best interest of the customers. There is far

radical revamping of techpubs

On a personal basis, it'd mean that if anyone in management was even floating the idea, that it's past time to rev your resume because the company ain't going to be around long. ;- ) Art On 10/10/07, mulholland4 wrote: > Hi, > I would like to see what the group thinks of this scenario for

radical revamping of techpubs

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 wrote: At 15:54 -0400 10/10/07, mulholland4 wrote: >I would

radical revamping of techpubs

In my opinion, the developer is the most ill-suited person to be writing the documentation. Their knowledge of the product is frequently too deep for the average user and the end result is often woefully inadequate for said average user. The fact that the developers are not native-English speakers

radical revamping of techpubs

Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me -- at least as far as the customer is concerned. Although the company might enjoy a short-term savings, they'll pay for it in the longer term in increased support costs (unless they off-shore that too) and customer dissatisfaction. ...Susan -

Italics dropping out of TOC

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:43:42 -0700, William Abernathy wrote: >Is this such a well-known FrameMaker bug >that it merits no response? That's probably the consensus. But, IIRC, there *is* a workaround for your specific case. You can't use a char format (for the reasons everyone has mentioned),

radical revamping of techpubs

My prediction is that it will be a partial disaster, and then they'll hire a contractor to come clean up. Few companies are interested in keeping technical writers around full time, since they're only needed at the end of the design process. They want dual roles, such as project manager technical

radical revamping of techpubs

This will be a complete train wreck. Here's why: 1. The Developers have no idea how to organize the information 2. When they write, they are completely illiterate. In my company, the Developers write specs for me on each new feature. They are so illiterate, that I always have to go to

radical revamping of techpubs

> 1. Remove all existing tech writing staff from techpubs. > 2. Replace these with software developers and specialists who know the > software inside out and get them to write all of the documentation. These > would now be known as Developer-techwriters. (It should be noted that none > of these

radical revamping of techpubs

I don't buy your "few companies" generalization. Perhaps small pre-IPO companies and the like, but I've not met an established company that didn't have a solid tech writing staff in place. On 10/10/07, Chris Borokowski wrote: > My prediction is that it will be a partial disaster, and then

radical revamping of techpubs

At the civil engineering firm where my wife has been one of the transportation engineers for almost 20 years, the story is pretty much the same. That is, the engineers are pretty proficient at road design and all that goes into it, but their reports (such as Interstate Justification Reports, or

radical revamping of techpubs

Just to throw my opinion on the fire as well, yeah, I'd say it's time to make like a tree and get outa there. :) It's the same old leftovers we've seen a zillion times before. The fact that the developers are not writers >nor< native English speakers just adds a comic twist to the

radical revamping of techpubs

They will get exactly what they desirve - a complete disaster. Companies that do not know the value of technical documentation, user documentation, in what ever form it is needed will lose business and market share, in the same way that companies that move their customer service call centers

Any experience with TrackChanges tool from Integrated Technologies

Ron -- I used it for a number of years. As time went by, it got more sophisticated, but worse. I learned to save early and often, because it crashed with some frequency. The last time I used it, it actually ate a bunch of my added text -- which turned out to be a very very bad thing. It was

radical revamping of techpubs

One word answer: Bad. Unless they don't care if they have unreadable, unusable, documentation. Miriam - Original Message - From: "mulholland4" To: Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 3:54 PM Subject: radical revamping of techpubs Hi, I would like to see what the