Double entries in TOC

2008-10-23 Thread Shlomo Perets
Charlie, You wrote: >How does FM know what TOC style to associate with a heading style? I >have three instances of TOC entries that show up twice: once correctly >and once incorrectly. The duplicated TOC entries each use a different >style. The style for the correct is an override. Is there a wa

Reasons for using graphic and table anchor tags

2008-10-23 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
It's always a good idea to tag content well. It allows you to search for similar content, which can be a big time saver in each future version of the manual. Also, the convenience of being able to easily search for similar content tends to improve the consistency in the manual. -- Regards, Shm

MadCap Flare

2008-10-23 Thread Callie Bertsche
Hi Framers, Due to frustration using ePublisher Pro and the coding learning curve of Mif2Go, we are seriously considering switching help generation software to MadCap Flare. I know I've generated chatter about this before, so I'm sorry if this feels repetitive; but can I get any more input from an

How to add double line ruling to bottom of first row of table

2008-10-23 Thread Callie Bertsche
Thanks all for your help! Wim's and Stuart's solutions worked great. > -Original Message- > From: Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp [mailto:wim at idtp.eu] > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:12 AM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com; Callie Bertsche > Subject: RE: How to add double line ruling

MadCap Flare

2008-10-23 Thread Callie Bertsche
Thank you. It's good caution. My hangup with TCS was forums like this one: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=65&; catid=680&threadid=1392783&enterthread=y where multiple users have trouble integrating FM 8 with RH 7. Do you use FM as authoring source to generate

Reasons for using graphic and table anchor tags

2008-10-23 Thread Ben Hechter
I couldn't live without standalone graphic and table anchor tags, if nothing else than for finding those pesky anchors and selecting the associated content. Embedding anchors in the surrounding text has never worked well for me. A neat trick with anchor tags is to set the font to normal size (ev

Reasons for using graphic and table anchor tags

2008-10-23 Thread Lofthouse Marsha-PT1816
Linda Gallagher asked, "What are some of your reasons for always anchoring tables and graphics to specific para tags?" Another reason is to be able to search for all of the paragraph tags that anchor figures, for example to search for AnchorFig and conditionalize all AnchorFig paragraphs to Hardco

Two-column layout and large graphics

2008-10-23 Thread Linda G. Gallagher
Framers, FM 8, unstructured Thanks all for the anchor tag reasons. Those will help me explain. I have another question related to a layout that a client wants to use in FM. Their documents are landscape, with two columns (not side heads). Sometimes a graphic, like a screenshot, is too big to f

MadCap Flare

2008-10-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:56:53 -0700, "Callie Bertsche" wrote: >My dream for our help bundle is generation from a >script in our nightly product build, which would >negate the need for any personal postprocessing. This is, of course, something you can readily do with Mif2Go, using the runfm prog

Two-column layout and large graphics

2008-10-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:22:27 -0600, "Linda G. Gallagher" wrote: >I have another question related to a layout that a client wants to use in >FM. Their documents are landscape, with two columns (not side heads). > >Sometimes a graphic, like a screenshot, is too big to fit in the column and >has t

Reasons for using graphic and table anchor tags

2008-10-23 Thread Keith Smyth
Linda, the reason I use anchors for graphics, and tables is that I can: 1. do a search for Anchor_F (which is my graphic anchor) or Anchor_T 2. Set next paragraph format 3. Spacing above and below 4. span columns 5. etc., etc., -- Keith L. Smyth President Smyth Consulting --

Re: Reasons for using graphic and table anchor tags

2008-10-23 Thread Shmuel Wolfson
It's always a good idea to tag content well. It allows you to search for similar content, which can be a big time saver in each future version of the manual. Also, the convenience of being able to easily search for similar content tends to improve the consistency in the manual. -- Regards, Shm

MadCap Flare

2008-10-23 Thread Callie Bertsche
Hi Framers, Due to frustration using ePublisher Pro and the coding learning curve of Mif2Go, we are seriously considering switching help generation software to MadCap Flare. I know I've generated chatter about this before, so I'm sorry if this feels repetitive; but can I get any more input from an

RE: How to add double line ruling to bottom of first row of table

2008-10-23 Thread Callie Bertsche
Thanks all for your help! Wim's and Stuart's solutions worked great. > -Original Message- > From: Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:12 AM > To: framers@lists.frameusers.com; Callie Bertsche > Subject: RE: How to add double line ruling t

RE: MadCap Flare

2008-10-23 Thread Callie Bertsche
Thank you. It's good caution. My hangup with TCS was forums like this one: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=65&; catid=680&threadid=1392783&enterthread=y where multiple users have trouble integrating FM 8 with RH 7. Do you use FM as authoring source to generat

Reasons for using graphic and table anchor tags

2008-10-23 Thread Ben Hechter
I couldn't live without standalone graphic and table anchor tags, if nothing else than for finding those pesky anchors and selecting the associated content. Embedding anchors in the surrounding text has never worked well for me. A neat trick with anchor tags is to set the font to normal size (ev

Re: Reasons for using graphic and table anchor tags

2008-10-23 Thread Lofthouse Marsha-PT1816
Linda Gallagher asked, "What are some of your reasons for always anchoring tables and graphics to specific para tags?" Another reason is to be able to search for all of the paragraph tags that anchor figures, for example to search for AnchorFig and conditionalize all AnchorFig paragraphs to Hardco

Two-column layout and large graphics

2008-10-23 Thread Linda G. Gallagher
Framers, FM 8, unstructured Thanks all for the anchor tag reasons. Those will help me explain. I have another question related to a layout that a client wants to use in FM. Their documents are landscape, with two columns (not side heads). Sometimes a graphic, like a screenshot, is too big to f

Re: MadCap Flare

2008-10-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:56:53 -0700, "Callie Bertsche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My dream for our help bundle is generation from a >script in our nightly product build, which would >negate the need for any personal postprocessing. This is, of course, something you can readily do with Mif2Go, u

Re: Two-column layout and large graphics

2008-10-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:22:27 -0600, "Linda G. Gallagher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have another question related to a layout that a client wants to use in >FM. Their documents are landscape, with two columns (not side heads). > >Sometimes a graphic, like a screenshot, is too big to fit in th