Thanks for the FM7 advice, Fred; but it seems to have been undone by FM8.0(p277).
Interestingly, while I was testing whether it still worked like that, I found a bigger gotcha for folks who edit conditional text without condition indicators or text symbols visible:
* [FM8.0] If you are in the
Yes, you must always turn on View Text Symbols when you are performing conditional markup (and troubleshooting).
The 'gotcha' in FrameMaker is that if you are typing inside of a condition and press Enter for a new paragraph, FM does NOT conditionalize the pilcrow.
[I do not know why this is the
of the IP, and the
new pilcrow will have the condition applied to it.
-Fred Ridder
From: da...@davidartman.com
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Consistent Conditional Text
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 07:16:58 -0700
Yes, you must always turn on View Text Symbols when you are performing
Hi K Grace;
You need to select the paragraph symbol to have the entire bullet be
conditional.
Regards,
Grant
On November 8, 2014 at 7:38 AM K Grace kgrace4...@aol.com wrote:
Does anyone have a list of rules of thumb when using conditional text ? I When
I mark the text the results that I
You need to include the paragraph marker at the end of the bulleted or
non-bulleted paragraph in the conditional text. That is not a rule of thumb, it
is simply telling Frame which portion of content (visible or non-visible) to
make conditional. It might help to switch on the display of hidden
In Frame, choose View Text Symbols. That lets you see the paragraph
marks at the end of your paragraphs and list items. It sounds like
you are conditionalizing the text but not the end of paragraph
characters. The ones you didn't conditionalize will show up as black
even when your
This is also true in Structured Frame, only there you should select the the
element the text is contained within.
Scott
On Nov 8, 2014, at 15:58, Yvonne DeGraw ydeg...@ydegraw.com wrote:
In Frame, choose View Text Symbols. That lets you see the paragraph marks
at the end of your
