I'm writing a script to align a column of numbers in a table by the hyphen example: 1-234 123-4 12-34 Has anyone worked on a simular problem and can give me a...
How would you do it by hand? Usually, this is a good starting point. If you use tabs, you will have to add a tab to each cell and set the correct tab stop. If...
Rick Quatro
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Jun 1, 2008 12:57 pm
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I use the line tool in FM to draw a line down the column. move a number to be in line with it. do a special copy paragraph paste the format to other numbers...
Hi, Can someone please guide me for the below query: I would like the script to delete all the extra paragraph tags present in a FM document except the ones...
Rick Quatro's tutorial on navigating paragraphs should give you a good start. http://www.frameexpert.com/tutorials/paragraphnavigation.htm - Michael ... -- ...
Hello- I'd like to search each document for heading or caption paragraphs, and then change the case of the words. I'm not sure how to break out each word in a...
Hi Chuck, You can break the heading into words by doing something like this. Set sText = 'This is an example heading'; Set sStrings = eStr.ToStringList{sText,'...
Rick Quatro
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Jun 3, 2008 9:20 pm
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Thanks Michael, this is helpful!! On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Michael Müller-Hillebrand <mmh@...> ... Thanks Michael, this is helpful!! On Tue,...
Hi, does anyone know what the syntax is for the following: Set myString='This is the test string' Display myString[9] would display 't'. This is useful if I...
That works great, thanks Rick! In order to keep from killing any markers or anchors, I compared the word to my exceptions list, and if it wasn't in the list, I...
Hi Chuck, I am not a big fan of F-Codes so I usually avoid them if possible. You can only use them on the active document, so I prefer techniques that will...
Rick Quatro
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Jun 4, 2008 9:22 pm
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Hi Michael, Array notation with the square brackets on works with a single member. To get multiple characters from a string, use the eStr.SubString method: Set...
Rick Quatro
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Jun 5, 2008 2:23 am
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Hello Rick, as usual, you give the quickest answer. I didn't think of SubString method. I believed in a simple syntax. Oh, well... Let it be then. Thanks for...
Does anyone have any experience with FrameMaker Server 8 (or previous versions) running in a cluster server? Also, if anybody has implemented FrameMaker Server...
Hi All, I have paragraphs that should normaly formated 'italic' with bold words, after translation some times some parts of the paragraph is not any longer in...
Michael, My first thought: If documents are ruined because of a translation process then in most cases the source documents have a problem, like manual...
Hi Michael, before translation the documents are OK. Afterwards in the action items which are normaly in italic the format switches after a word in bold back...
Michael, you're directly changing the font properties of the text -- what I call ad hoc formatting and Michael M.-H. calls manual overrides -- instead of...
Hi Richard, I have no influence on the translation process various service provider will do this job but the problem is always the same. I think the problem is...
I have a large programing document that is littered with things like this: Data Type: String[8] Data Type: String[32] Data Type: String Data Type: String[24] ...
It occurs to me that I don't have to be able to find the paragraph mark itself if there's something that will let me find "end of paragraph" and use that to...
Hi John, What version of FrameScript are you using? Thanks. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com...
Rick Quatro
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Jun 11, 2008 9:27 pm
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Hi Scripters. I tried the following: New EDropDownBox NewVar(dropLang) Top(100) Left(255) Width(200) Height(30) Form(frmDialog); dropLang.AddString{'test'}; ...
I've solved my problem. I was convused because the dropdown box did not open to show the added strings. The reason is the height of the dropdown box. I...
I would like to be able to use the CALLCLIENT command to activate the Insets Plus client. It requires an element ID. I'm not sure how to get an element ID...
Fred, you can get the integer value of a document object (aka its ID) using New Integer NewVar(vDocId) Value(vDoc); assuming that vDoc contains the document...
Esteemed colleagues,
Has anyone created a script to covert a Word document to a Frame document? Okay, really, it's unseemly to laugh uncontrollably like...
... Not a script, per se, but I have used some of the sample script and a couple of ones I've written to help the conversion. I'm going to have to revisit this...
Hi Thomas, I have done some work for clients designed to ease Word to Frame conversion issues. Of course Frame itself will convert Word documents, albeit with...
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