Getting the title of each dita map to show up in output

2011-10-20 Thread Steve Nelson
Hi, Using FM10. How do I get the map title to show up in my output (PDF)? I'm expecting it to come in as the title to each chapter, but it's not. It has a head.0 style. Thank you. Stephen Nelson Technical Writer Ameritherm, Inc./Ambrell 39 Main St. Scottsville, NY 14546 snel...@ambrell.com

RE: Getting the title of each dita map to show up in output

2011-10-22 Thread Steve Nelson
: Friday, October 21, 2011 4:24 AM To: Steve Nelson Cc: 'Framers' Subject: Re: Getting the title of each dita map to show up in output Hi Steve... I don't think that you can. It appears that this build process is hard-coded by FM. If you're using DITA-FMx, which uses a special Book structure

Proper positioning of dita topics on output

2011-10-27 Thread Steve Nelson
Hi, I'm using Frame 10 to create dita files, and have noticed that there is a delta between the positioning of topics in the topic file, versus on the composite fm after having converted the ditamap. Having worked in structured Framemaker previously, I'm familiar with a creating a topic title

TOC formatting problem

2011-11-05 Thread Steve Nelson
I have a small mystery -- In the body view of my TOC, my title.0TOC paragraph styles are being formatted as bold. However, in the reference page, they are not bold (which is how I'd like them to appear). Any idea what's going on here? Thank you. Stephen Nelson Technical Writer Ameritherm,

Image overlapping table borders?

2011-11-07 Thread Steve Nelson
Hello, Using Frame10 and dita 1.2. See attached screen grab from a PDF. When I set up some images in tables, they look fine in the native XML file. However, when I convert to composite FM and ultimately PDF, some of the graphics overlap the table borders. Do I need to alter the table to include

Framemaker 10/Ditamap odd behavior

2011-11-09 Thread Steve Nelson
Hello, I have a ditamap that, when I do a simple save, Framemaker wants to save it as a .fm file. My other ditamaps don't do this. Something I've noticed is that this particular ditamap has a file size of about 1.2 mb, where the others are all around 25k. Any idea what could be happening here?

RE: Image overlapping table borders?

2011-11-09 Thread Steve Nelson
Message- From: Klaus Daube [mailto:fr...@daube.ch] Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 3:09 AM To: Steve Nelson; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Image overlapping table borders? On 7 Nov 2011 at 10:36, Steve Nelson wrote: Using Frame10 and dita 1.2. See attached screen grab from

RE: Framemaker 10/Ditamap odd behavior

2011-11-09 Thread Steve Nelson
...@ambrell.com 585.889.0288 (office) _ From: Scott Prentice [mailto:s...@leximation.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 10:13 AM To: Steve Nelson Cc: Framers Subject: Re: Framemaker 10/Ditamap odd behavior Hi Steve... It sounds like this file *is* an FM file. Try forcing a save

Xml editors?

2011-11-14 Thread Steve Nelson
Hello, I'm using FM10 and the dita 1.2 templates. There are several members of our engineering team who would like to be able to contribute content to our user guides. Is it possible to let them use free XML editors to build xml topics, so that I can then incorporate those topics into my manual

RE: Xml editors?

2011-11-15 Thread Steve Nelson
...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 2:12 AM To: Steve Nelson Cc: Framers Subject: Re: Xml editors? Hi Steve As Scott said, a free XML editor is fine to create basic DITA topics. However, what will happen if they need to update the topics which you have edited in FrameMaker, using DITA

RE: Xref page numbering not correct

2011-11-22 Thread Steve Nelson
[mailto:generic...@yahoo.ca] Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 3:36 PM To: Steve Nelson; 'Scott Prentice' Cc: 'Framers' Subject: Re: Xref page numbering not correct I have a feeling I'm not helping. I'll just hush now. Nadine - Original Message - From: Steve Nelson snel...@ambrell.com

Adding file name variable to template

2012-03-02 Thread Steve Nelson
Hi, I'm using FM 10 with the dita 1.2 topic templates. Output is pdf. How do I include the file name in the footer of my output pages? Is there a way to control this at the book level? Thank you. Stephen Nelson Technical Writer Ambrell an Ameritherm Company 39 Main St. Scottsville, NY 14546

Follow up to Adding File Name Variable to Template question

2012-03-05 Thread Steve Nelson
Using FM10/dita 1.2 templates to output pdf. Currently, there is a user set variable (called pubPartNumber) on my cover page.fm, on the inside of the front cover. How can I pick up that variable, and have it appear in the footer of all of my body pages? Thanks again. Stephen Nelson Technical

RE: Follow up to Adding File Name Variable to Template question

2012-03-07 Thread Steve Nelson
...@taitradio.com] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 7:21 PM Cc: Steve Nelson; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Follow up to Adding File Name Variable to Template question This is what I do. I put User Variables in the footers of the master pages for each file in a book (e.g. document name

Round tripping commented PDF, using DITA

2013-01-24 Thread Steve Nelson
I'm running FM 10, using the DITA 1.2 xml topic templates. Is there a way to merge comments from a PDF in such a way that they hit the source xml files/topics? I suspect not, as the documentation seems to only describe merging into a Framemaker document. A search of this list's history seems to

Getting the title of each dita map to show up in output

2011-10-20 Thread Steve Nelson
Hi, Using FM10. How do I get the map title to show up in my output (PDF)? I'm expecting it to come in as the title to each chapter, but it's not. It has a "head.0" style. Thank you. Stephen Nelson Technical Writer Ameritherm, Inc./Ambrell 39 Main St. Scottsville, NY 14546 snelson at

Getting the title of each dita map to show up in output

2011-10-21 Thread Steve Nelson
: Friday, October 21, 2011 4:24 AM To: Steve Nelson Cc: 'Framers' Subject: Re: Getting the title of each dita map to show up in output Hi Steve... I don't think that you can. It appears that this "build" process is hard-coded by FM. If you're using DITA-FMx, which uses a special "B

Proper positioning of dita topics on output

2011-10-26 Thread Steve Nelson
Hi, I'm using Frame 10 to create dita files, and have noticed that there is a delta between the positioning of topics in the topic file, versus on the composite fm after having converted the ditamap. Having worked in structured Framemaker previously, I'm familiar with a creating a topic title

Follow up to "Adding File Name Variable to Template" question

2012-03-02 Thread Steve Nelson
Using FM10/dita 1.2 templates to output pdf. Currently, there is a user set variable (called "pubPartNumber) on my cover page.fm, on the inside of the front cover. How can I pick up that variable, and have it appear in the footer of all of my body pages? Thanks again. Stephen Nelson Technical

Follow up to "Adding File Name Variable to Template" question

2012-03-06 Thread Steve Nelson
...@taitradio.com] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 7:21 PM Cc: Steve Nelson; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Follow up to "Adding File Name Variable to Template" question This is what I do. I put User Variables in the footers of the master pages for each file in a book (e.g

Adding file name variable to template

2012-03-02 Thread Steve Nelson
Hi, I'm using FM 10 with the dita 1.2 topic templates. Output is pdf. How do I include the file name in the footer of my output pages? Is there a way to control this at the book level? Thank you. Stephen Nelson Technical Writer Ambrell an Ameritherm Company 39 Main St. Scottsville, NY 14546

Round tripping commented PDF, using DITA

2013-01-24 Thread Steve Nelson
I'm running FM 10, using the DITA 1.2 xml topic templates. Is there a way to merge comments from a PDF in such a way that they hit the source xml files/topics? I suspect not, as the documentation seems to only describe merging into a "Framemaker document". A search of this list's history seems