Re: FrameMaker question - literate formatting

["Koray Erkan" <koraye_freelance -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

All of this greatly helps, Stuart. Many thanks, much appreciated.

Cheers,
Koray


<slb -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au> wrote in message news:269822 -at- techwr-l -dot-  -dot-  -dot- 
>
> Hi Koray -
>
> The short answer is, no, I don't think it can all be done automatically
> via mapping tables. I believe you could do it reasonably simply through a
> series of find/replace steps. You can also save a lot of time by buying a
> plug-in.
>
>
> If I understand correctly you'd like to have the sample code in an italic
> font to make it stand out from other text--this would be a paragraph tag
> called, say, Code. In the code samples, reserved words would be bold and
> not italic--for this you'd have a character tag called Reserved.
>
> > - format all non-reserved words and non-operator symbols as italic:
again,
> > the operator symbols must be defined beforehand.
>
> First I'd go through the document highlighting each block of code and
> applying the Code P-tag. Do the first one manually--highlight the block
> then click on Code in the Paragraph Catalog. Then click in one of the
> lines that you just formatted and select Edit > Copy Special > Paragraph
> Format. This copies the Code format to the clipboard.
>
> If the start of each code sample has a unique string in it you can use
> Find to find the start of the next block, then Change: By pasting. Because
> the clipboard  contains the name of the Code P-tag, "Change: By pasting"
> applies the Code tag to the highlighted text while leaving the text
> unchanged.
>
> > - format certain words (i.e. reserved words of the programming language)
as
> > bold: this means those reserved words need be fed to FM.
>
> You could do this manually (one Find/Change for each word) but it would be
> very tedious if there are many words. I can think of four options to speed
> things up:
>
> 1. If you are running Frame on UNIX you can create a macro (or on a Mac,
> an Applescript) to copy the Reserved C-tag, find each word in the list,
> then do Change: By pasting.
>
> If you have Frame on Windows:
>
> 2. You can buy the FrameScript plug-in (http://www.framescript.com/) and
> create a script to do the same as in 1.
>
> 3. You can (I think) use the "Find/Change by Configuration" tool from the
> FrameMaker Toolbox by Systec GmbH
> (http://www.systec-gmbh.com/en/sites/downloads_tk.htm)
>
> > - replace certain operators with certain variants in the typeface that
> > appear more legible - e.g. a minus sign ['-'; ANSI 45] with em dash
['-';
> > ANSI 151]: this too requires a mapping table.
>
> You can do this directly in the Find/Change dialog box. Find the minus
> sign formatted as italic; Change to Text: \m
>
> \m represents an em dash (though maybe an en dash would be better in a
> code sample? If so, do Change to Text: \=   )
>
> Hope this helps. If you have any more questions let us know.
>
> Regards
>
> Stuart Burnfield
>
>



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