FrameMaker

Localization and FrameMaker

"Localization and FrameMaker" (pdf): insights and guidance on preparing for localization, choosing vendors, understanding the localization process, and antic...
June 07, 2006

tables always a special kind

I though I need several minutes to write a FrameMaker script. Script had to change font size in a block of text. What could be simplier? Unfortunately, globa...
December 28, 2005

problematic code points in FrameMaker

Superior comment from Stefan Gentz (TRACOM). Here you go with a list of characters that are *not* possible with FrameMaker (as long as you don't use any pat...
September 14, 2005

Structured FrameMaker bug with insets

It seems that text format rules, which are defined in a FrameMaker EDD, are lost when updating text insets. Open "test.fm". Text "some text" is bold. Click ...
September 02, 2005

InsetPlus, Structure Tools

Russ Ward (West Street Consulting) have announced a beta version of InsetPlus, a FrameMaker plugin for managing documents that consist of reusable text modul...
September 01, 2005

I’m not gready

I like Kynosarges' comment on the Tree Help Plugin for Structured FrameMaker. Another software nugget for users of Structured FrameMaker: DataHansa's Tree ...
August 25, 2005

descriptions of the Tree Help plugin

This auxiliary entry is reserved for collecting descriptions of the Tree Help Plugin for Structured FrameMaker. My own link. Checked 25 August 2005. In the ...
August 25, 2005

MIFML

I've got feedback from Scott Prentice on recently released Tree Help plugin for FrameMaker. He has added the plugin to his leximation.com tools database. But...
August 02, 2005

Tree Help plugin is released

I've released Tree Help plugin for FrameMaker as shareware. I don't expect much (if any) income, but I have a vague feeling of usefulness of releasing the pl...
August 02, 2005

Generative XML in FrameMaker

One of the use cases for XPath over legacy data is structured FrameMaker (FrameMaker+SGML). The structure is in fact XML, that's good. But the only interface...
April 20, 2005

slovakian ť in FrameMaker

Unfortunately, Slovakian letter ť (latin small letter t with caron) is not supported by FrameMaker. At first, I thought it was a problem with so-calle...
April 04, 2005

nasty FrameMaker or FrameScript behaviour

Recently I got a complaint from an user that my FrameScript code did not work. Understanding the problem was a valuable experience. The code does the follo...
March 28, 2005

one year of a bug

A year ago I wrote a script for managing reusable components in FrameMaker. It has being expensively used. Saying more, it's a core of a new workflow. Recent...
March 17, 2005

Making FM menus

It's hard to create menu scripts for FrameMaker, even with help of FrameScript because there are a lot of details. So several months ago I wrote a generator ...
March 11, 2005