Stripping color definitions from .fm files

Save as MIF, close. Open doc, save as FM. Search the archive for tools to do this on many files... -Niels -> -Original Message- -> From: framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com -> [mailto:framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com] -> On Behalf Of Melanie

Keycaps fonts lose their already shady characters

Hi, Not a clue about your real problem. I just had to respond: How can you even DREAM of paying for something like that out of your own pocket? Big guy wants the job done - big guy pays. Judging by your contributions to the list over the years, I think your employer should cherish you and respe

Outsourcing: Was Release Date for FrameMaker 8?

I appreciate that some you are afraid that the US will lose jobs to India and such countries. But take a bigger perspective on this, will you? If India (et.al.) are not involved with "Western" technology - if they don't get any hi-tech jobs and industries - how are they ever going to be able to

Outsourcing: Was Release Date for FrameMaker 8?

Niels: -> > how are they ever going to be able to buy American (or Danish, for -> > that matter) products and services? Only by sharing our -> wealth (and -> > jobs - even if it hurts) can we all survive and thrive in the long -> > run. John: -> Niels...a point from both sides... -> -> - If y

Find not finding

I'm pretty sure he means this: http://stevemiller.net/puretext/ -Niels -> -Original Message- -> From: framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com -> [mailto:framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com] -> On Behalf Of Beck, Charles -> Sent: 22. maj 2006 16:49 ->

Doc closes after hyperlink

Framers, I have been trying to make some sense of this, and now I turn to you. Sometimes, following a hyperlink in a Frame doc to another Frame doc closes the source doc. If it has been changed, FrameMaker prompts to save the doc before it opens the target doc. Cancelling the save procedure can

Quick Context-sensitive question

Hi, You can point to the same topic from multiple places in the application. So one topic alias should suffice. -Niels -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Ron Miller

Creating bookmarks, more and top links in FM

Hi, I think your questions are better suited for a WW Help list. See eg. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wwp-users/ -Niels -> -Original Message- -> From: framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com -> [mailto:framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com] ->

Tables not accepting "Ruling" settings

You wrote: -> ->This happens on some files (chapters) within my book, but -> not in others. And within a single file/chapter, it can -> happen on some tables, but not others. Would the tables where this happens possibly be imported from, say, Word? If that is the case, you need to open th

Generierte Verzeichnisse bei Suche ignorieren

Hallo WoK, Diese Liste is normalerweise nur in Englisch gehalten... Other than that, I'm not aware of any plugin that leaves out generated lists. U got FrameScript? -Niels -> -Original Message- -> From: framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com -> [mailto:framers-bounc

Index sort order

Hi, I discovered a problem in my index. Entries such as "semantic errors" and "search windows" were sorted _after_ Z. Naturally, I inspected the sort order on the reference page in the index file and found that the last entry in the sort order was "". If I removed that from the sort order, the

good flowchart software to use with Frame

Visio - save as PNG. Works well for me. -Niels -> -Original Message- -> From: framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com -> [mailto:framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com] -> On Behalf Of Beth Prince -> Sent: 13. september 2006 20:16 -> To: framers at list

Error while trying to generate TOC

Open the document, and save it again using a current version of FrameMaker. Regenerate the TOC - the error should be gone. HTH Niels -> -Original Message- -> From: framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com -> [mailto:framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.co

Bizarre character issue (Uppercase F does not work)

Well, I can't use my ! (exclamation mark) - haven't been able to in ages. I suspect the answer lies in some keyboard configuration file - I suppose the ! maps to nothing. Maybe I'll look at it again - actually you don't use the ! very much in technical documentation - but if I find out, I'll le

Two-column index

Hi Framers, I run into this problem regularly (on FrameMaker 7.1): I have a book consisting of quite a number of documents. Some of these documents have an index of their own (for historical reasons... And because making a book-wide index wouldn't make any sense). The text flow in each documen

SOLVED: Two-column index

Hi, Thanks for all the good replies. I'd rather not add the index separately in the main book, as I sometimes publish the document in a "stand-alone" version, and I like to try to keep my books as free from generated files as possible. Steve Rickaby's answer did it for me - his comment: "Te

Two-column index

Hi, Richard Combs wrote: -> I'm having trouble imagining what kind of book has chapter- -> or section-level indexes, but none at the book level. If -> these sections/parts of the book are so disparate, then why -> combine them into one book (especially one that's -> continuously page-numbered,

Starting over - Slightly OT

Hi, If you're dealing with a lot of content reuse, you may want to at least consider AuthorIT. That'll let you use Word in a fairly safe setup - or so they say! Check it out - there's an evaluation version on their home page at http://www.authorit.com/. Not affiliated - not even a user - total

How long to learn FrameScript?

Hi, As for the "macro trap" - you are right that sometimes making a macro to do stuff takes (at least) the same amount of time that you'd spend doing it manually. BUT at least you are having fun developing it, you are using your brain at a different frequency, and over time you can build up a c

character tags in cross reference text

Hi, That isn't going to work - Rebeccas problem is that only part of the text-to-be-referenced is in italics. I'm not sure there is a solution to this... -Niels -Original Message- From: framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy...@li

Win FM document select shortcut

Ctrl+F6. -Niels > -Original Message- > From: owner-framers at omsys.com > [mailto:owner-framers at omsys.com] On Behalf Of Paul Findon > Sent: 25. november 2005 15:25 > To: free framers; Framers List > Subject: Win FM document select shortcut > > With Mac FrameMaker, Command-Option-W c

No-tech; was: Funny

Ink-flipping and rubber band projectiles... I guess that'd be the lo-tech forerunner of the computer virus? ;o) -Niels -> -Original Message- -> From: framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com -> [mailto:framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com] -> On Behal

Using con't at top of table with paragraph tag?

Hi, Add the variable called "Table Continuation" after the text in the table header. It won't show unless the table breaks, and then only on not-first table pages. (It is found along with the others in the regular Variable dialog.) HTH -Niels -> -Original Message- -> From: framers-boun

Double-clicking *.fm file in dir no longer opens file

Hi, You are currently failing to open files because there are spaces in the filename. In the registration database, make sure that the key My Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\applications\FrameMaker.exe\shell\Open\Command -has the value "C:\Program Files\Adobe\FrameMaker7.1\FrameMaker.exe" "%1" -t

how to get mouse wheel to work with FM

FreeWheel driver: http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/freewheel.shtml Searchable archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/framers at lists.frameusers.com/ Regards, -Niels -> -Original Message- -> From: framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com -> [mailto:framers-bounces+nfa=m

how to get mouse wheel to work with FM - CORRECTION

Sorry, I linked to the wrong driver (for Amiga...) Here it is: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2060/freewheel.html -Niels -> -Original Message- -> From: framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com -> [mailto:framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com] ->

atw: Frame query

Or you can select whatever is in front and then Alt+Arrow it to one side until you can select and delete the offending graphic. Then Alt-Arrow the former selection back the same amount of Arrow-depressions. (Remember to count the first time around!) -Niels > -Original Message- > From

Framers Digest, Vol 3, Issue 2

Yep - it's a bug. If you use regular Frame, look to the statusbar at your bottom-left for the truth about the current paragraph tag. In structured Frame, the statusbar shows the current element - in that case, you just have to trust the EDD developer - you don't need the Para name anyway. -Niel

Converting to Character Formats

No need for plugins. Select some text formatted with the char format you want to apply. Select Edit - Copy Special - Character Format. Then, in the Find/Replace box, choose to find a character format. Set the dialog to As Is (Shift+F8), and choose Bold in the Weight box. OK out. Then, in the Re

Converting to Character Formats

Hi Rick, I don't see the problem. If I Copy Special a Char Format, say the Emphasis format, and replace a bolded text by pasting the Char Format, then the text is stamped with the Emphasis format - the bold goes away, and the text is emphasized. If you later change the format, then the formerly

manipulating headers / footers through API?

Hi Jakob, Can't you manipulate the markers "Header/Footer $1" and "Header/Footer $2" instead, and just include those markers in the footer? I've made a FrameScript program that does this in order to create footers for an index, so I guess you can do that with the API. Might prove easier. Best

add Framers list to gmane.org?

John wrote: -> Why? you may have every intention of not making them public, -> but once they are in documentation, anything can happen; -> somepone else recycles what you create not knowing the -> restrictions, you leave and someone takes over the stuff and -> doesn't know, it's just an issue I

Frame->webworks publisher

Hi, I'd take it to the kind folks in the HATT group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HATT/ Lots of expertise there (as well). -Niels -> -Original Message- -> From: framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com -> [mailto:framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com

Frame->webworks publisher

Rats. What I meant, too! ;o) Niels -> -Original Message- -> John Steiner wrote: -> > Hi! I'm converting a Frame book (6.0) to Webworks Publisher and am -> > having trouble with a character style, particularly a macro in a -> > character style. Is this an appropriate forum to ask about

document release date schedule documentation

Before we started doing serious documentation estimates, we used the following formula. The developers describe every change to the software in "worksheets". We used to multiply the number of worksheets for a release by pi to get the number of required documentation hours... And guess what, it a

Color problem

Perhaps a PNG graphic slipped into the doc? Save as MIF and open it again - see if it took care of the unwanted color definitions. If this took care of your problem, search for "PNG" in the Framers archive for an explanation - should be quite a few hits. If not, I've no clue. -Niels -> -O

TOCs at beginning of each chapter

We use separate TOC files as well (Frank's "second method" below), but we use an AutoIT script to update it - no manual steps after the initial set-up. -Niels -> -Original Message- -> From: framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.dk at lists.frameusers.com -> [mailto:framers-bounces+nfa=maconomy.d

RE: Find not finding

I'm pretty sure he means this: http://stevemiller.net/puretext/ -Niels -> -Original Message- -> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> On Behalf Of Beck, Charles -> Sent: 22. maj 2006 16:49 -> To: Shmuel Wolfson -> Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com -> Subject: RE: Find

Doc closes after hyperlink

Framers, I have been trying to make some sense of this, and now I turn to you. Sometimes, following a hyperlink in a Frame doc to another Frame doc closes the source doc. If it has been changed, FrameMaker prompts to save the doc before it opens the target doc. Cancelling the save procedure can

RE: Color problem

Perhaps a PNG graphic slipped into the doc? Save as MIF and open it again - see if it took care of the unwanted color definitions. If this took care of your problem, search for "PNG" in the Framers archive for an explanation - should be quite a few hits. If not, I've no clue. -Niels -> -O

RE: Frame->webworks publisher

Hi, I'd take it to the kind folks in the HATT group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HATT/ Lots of expertise there (as well). -Niels -> -Original Message- -> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> On Behalf Of John Steiner -> Sent: 4. juli 2006 07:33 -> To: framers@li

RE: Frame->webworks publisher

Rats. What I meant, too! ;o) Niels -> -Original Message- -> John Steiner wrote: -> > Hi! I'm converting a Frame book (6.0) to Webworks Publisher and am -> > having trouble with a character style, particularly a macro in a -> > character style. Is this an appropriate forum to ask about

RE: document release date schedule documentation

Before we started doing serious documentation estimates, we used the following formula. The developers describe every change to the software in "worksheets". We used to multiply the number of worksheets for a release by pi to get the number of required documentation hours... And guess what, it a

RE: Using con't at top of table with paragraph tag?

Hi, Add the variable called "Table Continuation" after the text in the table header. It won't show unless the table breaks, and then only on not-first table pages. (It is found along with the others in the regular Variable dialog.) HTH -Niels -> -Original Message- -> From: [EMAIL PROTE

RE: Double-clicking *.fm file in dir no longer opens file

Hi, You are currently failing to open files because there are spaces in the filename. In the registration database, make sure that the key My Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\applications\FrameMaker.exe\shell\Open\Command -has the value "C:\Program Files\Adobe\FrameMaker7.1\FrameMaker.exe" "%1" -t

RE: good flowchart software to use with Frame

Visio - save as PNG. Works well for me. -Niels -> -Original Message- -> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> On Behalf Of Beth Prince -> Sent: 13. september 2006 20:16 -> To: framers@lists.frameusers.com -> Subject: good flowchart software to use with Frame -> -> Hi

RE: Error while trying to generate TOC

Open the document, and save it again using a current version of FrameMaker. Regenerate the TOC - the error should be gone. HTH Niels -> -Original Message- -> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> On Behalf Of Deepa -> Sent: 21. september 2006 13:43 -> To: framers@li

RE: Bizarre character issue (Uppercase F does not work)

Well, I can't use my ! (exclamation mark) - haven't been able to in ages. I suspect the answer lies in some keyboard configuration file - I suppose the ! maps to nothing. Maybe I'll look at it again - actually you don't use the ! very much in technical documentation - but if I find out, I'll le

Two-column index

Hi Framers, I run into this problem regularly (on FrameMaker 7.1): I have a book consisting of quite a number of documents. Some of these documents have an index of their own (for historical reasons... And because making a book-wide index wouldn't make any sense). The text flow in each documen

SOLVED: Two-column index

gt; From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> On Behalf Of Niels Fanøe -> Sent: 27. september 2006 13:55 -> To: framers@FrameUsers.com -> Subject: Two-column index -> -> Hi Framers, -> -> I run into this problem regularly (on FrameMaker 7.1): -> -

RE: Two-column index

Hi, Richard Combs wrote: -> I'm having trouble imagining what kind of book has chapter- -> or section-level indexes, but none at the book level. If -> these sections/parts of the book are so disparate, then why -> combine them into one book (especially one that's -> continuously page-numbered,

RE: Creating bookmarks, more and top links in FM

Hi, I think your questions are better suited for a WW Help list. See eg. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wwp-users/ -Niels -> -Original Message- -> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> On Behalf Of Jaya Ghosh -> Sent: 12. oktober 2006 12:30 -> To: framers@FrameU

RE: Tables not accepting "Ruling" settings

You wrote: -> ->This happens on some files (chapters) within my book, but -> not in others. And within a single file/chapter, it can -> happen on some tables, but not others. Would the tables where this happens possibly be imported from, say, Word? If that is the case, you need to open t

RE: Generierte Verzeichnisse bei Suche ignorieren

Hallo WoK, Diese Liste is normalerweise nur in Englisch gehalten... Other than that, I'm not aware of any plugin that leaves out generated lists. U got FrameScript? -Niels -> -Original Message- -> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> On Behalf Of Wolfgang Kühn ->

RE: Starting over - Slightly OT

Hi, If you're dealing with a lot of content reuse, you may want to at least consider AuthorIT. That'll let you use Word in a fairly safe setup - or so they say! Check it out - there's an evaluation version on their home page at http://www.authorit.com/. Not affiliated - not even a user - total

RE: How long to learn FrameScript?

Hi, As for the "macro trap" - you are right that sometimes making a macro to do stuff takes (at least) the same amount of time that you'd spend doing it manually. BUT at least you are having fun developing it, you are using your brain at a different frequency, and over time you can build up a c

RE: character tags in cross reference text

Hi, That isn't going to work - Rebeccas problem is that only part of the text-to-be-referenced is in italics. I'm not sure there is a solution to this... -Niels -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Caroline Tabach Sent: 31. januar 2007 10:2

RE: Win FM document select shortcut

Ctrl+F6. -Niels > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Findon > Sent: 25. november 2005 15:25 > To: free framers; Framers List > Subject: Win FM document select shortcut > > With Mac FrameMaker, Command-Option-W cycles through open

RE: atw: Frame query

Or you can select whatever is in front and then Alt+Arrow it to one side until you can select and delete the offending graphic. Then Alt-Arrow the former selection back the same amount of Arrow-depressions. (Remember to count the first time around!) -Niels > -Original Message- > From

RE: Framers Digest, Vol 3, Issue 2

Yep - it's a bug. If you use regular Frame, look to the statusbar at your bottom-left for the truth about the current paragraph tag. In structured Frame, the statusbar shows the current element - in that case, you just have to trust the EDD developer - you don't need the Para name anyway. -Niel

RE: Converting to Character Formats

No need for plugins. Select some text formatted with the char format you want to apply. Select Edit - Copy Special - Character Format. Then, in the Find/Replace box, choose to find a character format. Set the dialog to As Is (Shift+F8), and choose Bold in the Weight box. OK out. Then, in the Re

RE: Converting to Character Formats

n the formerly bolded text gets changed, too. And that's what I believe Marcus wanted. Be ye the judge, Marcus! :o) -Niels > -Original Message- > From: Rick Quatro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 6. januar 2006 13:58 > To: Niels Fanøe; Marcus Carr; Frame Users > S

RE: manipulating headers / footers through API?

Hi Jakob, Can't you manipulate the markers "Header/Footer $1" and "Header/Footer $2" instead, and just include those markers in the footer? I've made a FrameScript program that does this in order to create footers for an index, so I guess you can do that with the API. Might prove easier. Best

RE: add Framers list to gmane.org?

John wrote: -> Why? you may have every intention of not making them public, -> but once they are in documentation, anything can happen; -> somepone else recycles what you create not knowing the -> restrictions, you leave and someone takes over the stuff and -> doesn't know, it's just an issue I

RE: how to get mouse wheel to work with FM

FreeWheel driver: http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/freewheel.shtml Searchable archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/framers@lists.frameusers.com/ Regards, -Niels -> -Original Message- -> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> On Behalf Of John Wilcox -> Sent: 2. febr

RE: how to get mouse wheel to work with FM - CORRECTION

Sorry, I linked to the wrong driver (for Amiga...) Here it is: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/2060/freewheel.html -Niels -> -Original Message- -> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> On Behalf Of Niels Fanøe -> Sent: 3. februar 2006 13:09

RE: Esc m p for anchored frames?

I always remember it as "Make Phit"... -Niels -> -Original Message- -> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> On Behalf Of Pat Christenson -> Sent: 9. februar 2006 08:44 -> To: framers List -> Subject: Re: Esc m p for anchored frames? -> -> When I taught this shortcut

RE: TOC page no. fonts

Changing TOC number format: On the Reference page in the TOC file, apply a character format to the <$pagenum> variable for the paragraph format in question. Regenerate. Regarding the second question: Umm, "fixing" a TOC manually certainly is not a good idea - kinda defies the purpose. If you ha

RE: TOCs at beginning of each chapter

We use separate TOC files as well (Frank's "second method" below), but we use an AutoIT script to update it - no manual steps after the initial set-up. -Niels -> -Original Message- -> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> On Behalf Of Frank Harper -> Sent: 6. marts 20

RE: Stripping color definitions from .fm files

Save as MIF, close. Open doc, save as FM. Search the archive for tools to do this on many files... -Niels -> -Original Message- -> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> On Behalf Of Melanie Raney -> Sent: 22. marts 2006 02:12 -> To: framers@lists.frameusers.com -> Su

RE: Keycaps fonts lose their already shady characters

Hi, Not a clue about your real problem. I just had to respond: How can you even DREAM of paying for something like that out of your own pocket? Big guy wants the job done - big guy pays. Judging by your contributions to the list over the years, I think your employer should cherish you and respe

RE: No-tech; was: Funny

Ink-flipping and rubber band projectiles... I guess that'd be the lo-tech forerunner of the computer virus? ;o) -Niels -> -Original Message- -> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -> On Behalf Of Roger Shuttleworth -> Sent: 31. marts 2006 16:11 -> To: framers@FrameUse

RE: Outsourcing: Was Release Date for FrameMaker 8?

I appreciate that some you are afraid that the US will lose jobs to India and such countries. But take a bigger perspective on this, will you? If India (et.al.) are not involved with "Western" technology - if they don't get any hi-tech jobs and industries - how are they ever going to be able to

RE: Outsourcing: Was Release Date for FrameMaker 8?

Niels: -> > how are they ever going to be able to buy American (or Danish, for -> > that matter) products and services? Only by sharing our -> wealth (and -> > jobs - even if it hurts) can we all survive and thrive in the long -> > run. John: -> Niels...a point from both sides... -> -> - If y