Re: Printing paragraph style information from FrameMaker

Subject: Re: Printing paragraph style information from FrameMaker
From: "Chuck Martin" <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com>
To: techwr-l
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:21:07 -0800

John, Thanks for the tip.

Nice little add-ons. I had no idea they existed. But...

There are more than 100 paragraph styles defined in a main chapter document.
The default style information list ened up being nearly 200 pages long. I
ended up copying all the content into a blank Word document, then reducing
the text size and creating a 3-column document to make it a manageable 50
pages.

And this lists everything. I mean everything. One line per element. If I had
a wish list for this product (and I may email the author to see if it can be
done) is to do 3 primary things:

- Offer an option between basic (certain key and commonly used attributes)
and advanced (all attributes), or just ignore the many that are left at
their default settings.
- Run together the items in each section, separated by, say semicolons.
- Use a "based-on" methodology, where only the differences between a "base"
definition are actually output.

The last 2 are in line with how Word formats their printout of this
information.

Still, once I get my first check from this place, I know where $10 of it are
earmarked for.

Chuck Martin

P.S. I'm doing a presentation on online communities for user assistance
professionals. This is one I'll be talking about, and your response, both
its quickness and its helpfulness is a great example. (I know there are tons
more, but being able to add a personal touch should help enrapture the
audience.) Unless you object, I'd like to use this as a specific example
(I'll be doing some general examples as well).

"John Posada" <JPosada -at- isogon -dot- com> wrote in message news:229336 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-

Chuck...just yesterday, I downloaded a shareware plugin from Silicon
Prairie Software to do just that...the cost is about $10.

http://www.siliconprairiesoftware.com/

Works pretty well.


>Can you print information about paragraph
>styles from FrameMaker like you can from Word?








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