Format a text-crossref
Hi all,in the DITA EDD the fm-xref element does not suport any formatting in itself it seems. Thus we use the crossref-definitions in the Framemaker template to apply a chracter style (simple...
View ArticleParser error message: Required attribute 'cols' was not provided
I'm having trouble with a ditamap in FM 12 because two of the files refuse to save. They send up the parser error message "Required attribute 'cols' was not provided". They both contain tables imported...
View Article"Unwrap" CDATA with XSLT
Hi,I know this isn't necessarily a FrameMaker question, but it is a place where I know people. So forgive me for asking it here.I have some CDATA sections in an XML file that contain markup that I want...
View ArticleCan't Save As PDF
I am working with DITA files in Frame 8, and am unable to save a generated Frame file as a PDF. I keep getting these errors:"To execute "Save as PDF" command you must have Acrobat Distiller version...
View ArticleAbsolute path in Doctype DTD makes DTD unavailable on other machines
Hi all, When saving to XML, I understand that Frame takes the relative path to the DTD as described in structapps.fm (in our case, $STRUCTDIR\xml\xdocbook\app\docbookx.dtd) and generates an absolute...
View ArticleFrame cross-references to DITA
FrameMaker 11Vasont CMSArbortext editor In order to comply with our parent company, we are converting all of our FM docs to DITA. We check before conversion to ensure all cross-refs are working. When...
View Articleconverting Framemaker files into PDF progaramatically using publishing server
Hi All Background: We are going for upgrade of Frame maker 8 which is on unix system to FM 10 or 11. We are using Framemaker mainly for renditions, i.e to convert the fm documents to PDF. To convert...
View ArticleHighlight text in FrameMaker.
I want to highlight text in FrameMaker.or add shadow for the text.How can I deal with it?
View Articles1000dMenu.jsxbin error in FrameMaker 11
I have read a discussion about this error message elsewhere in the forum, but it did not seem exactly pertinent to our issue. To make updates easier to role out to our users, have our Structure...
View ArticleCross reference issues in FrameMaker 11 DITA
I'm trying to upgrade from FrameMaker 9 to FrameMaker 11. My files are set up using structured FrameMaker and DITA. The ditamap is comprised of both FM files and XML files. I'm attempting to use the...
View ArticleHow do I create a soft return (shift+Enter)?
FrameMaker 11DITA 1.2 Is it possible using FM 11 and DITA 1.2 to use a soft return (as in Shift+Enter)? There are times when I want to avoid bad line breaks in a line of code or when I just want to...
View Article*.SIX standard index list
I need to generate a standard index list (*.six) file as part of a book compilation. The problem is, the marker or index entries must be provided from a separat list of suggest words not by elements or...
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How to "Wrap New Topics In Dita Element" when creating a DITA topic?
The Adobe help documentation says to "1. Select DITA > DITA Options, and choose Wrap New Topics In Dita Element." (under Home / Using FrameMaker 11 / Structured Authoring Using DITA> create a...
View ArticleTable format problem - Please help
Here is what I am trying to do: I have a set of documents in xml fomrat following the docbook standard. In these documents there are too types of table. The standard table with its element tag TABLE...
View ArticleFont style issues in DITA
Hello, I am working on DITA topics, I have defined bodytext paragraph tag font as regular in the template. But i need some words/sentence as bold and italics. If i change a word/sentence as bold, when...
View Articleinline character formatting
Battling on happily after that Aha!-moment before Christmas, and testing myself by retrofitting structure to existing documents – still having far more fun than I feel I should do at the office :-}...
View ArticleFrameMaker 12 issue: copying inline element also copies paragraph style
When I copy an inline element then sometimes the paragraph style is copied as well. The happens frequently when I copy a cross-reference. If the source context is a list then the target paragraph is...
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Display a line (via image frame) below suffix
Hi all,currently I am trying to format the DITA <lq> element (long quote) to display a line above and below its content. For the line below I have tried to use a suffix rule in the EDD. I can...
View ArticleConversion from word problems with images
Hi ,I managed to make a conversion table to structure the documents of out company.I am having a proble with images.I am importing the word file to our template with a custom EDD document.When the...
View ArticleCan I pull prefixes/suffixes into XML ?
I am using prefix and suffix rules in my EDD to make things easier for the author (and standardize some headings and parts of names). Now I need to write the content into XML and my prefixes and...
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