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Subject:RE: FM 8 "Next pgf tag" having no effect... From:"Sean Brierley" <sbrierley -at- Accu-Time -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 7 Aug 2008 10:12:05 -0400
Perhaps there is a stylesheet or inline definition that is being used in
structured view that is overriding the settings you make in the
FrameMaker GUI for that one PC?
Cheers,
Sean
___________
Sean Brierley
Technical Writer
www.accu-time.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Lin Sims [mailto:ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:09 AM
To: Sean Brierley
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: FM 8 "Next pgf tag" having no effect...
I'll try that when I get home tonight. As I said, oddly enough, FM does
what I expect on the work machine using the exact same file.
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Sean Brierley <sbrierley -at- accu-time -dot- com>
wrote:
> Try it in unstructured mode.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sean
>
> ___________
> Sean Brierley
> Technical Writer
> www.accu-time.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lin Sims [mailto:ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:50 AM
> To: Sean Brierley; richard -dot- combs -at- polycom -dot- com; framers -at- omsys -dot- com;
> framers -at- lists -dot- frameusers -dot- com; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: FM 8 "Next pgf tag" having no effect...
>
>
> You want something even MORE odd? The exact same document (as in, it's
> stored on a thumb drive that I access directly for this) has this
> issue on my home machine but works perfectly on my office machine. And
> the day before yesterday, it worked at home, too!
>
> Both machines have Frame 8.0 p277, on Windows XP SP3. It's in
> Structured View, but I'm not using elements or anything, just standard
> tags. As far as I can tell, this has no effect on what I'm doing since
> I'm not inserting any elements or attributes.
>
> I round-tripped the document through MIF to no avail.
>
> As to set up: I created the first tag in Paragraph Designer, pressed
> return, created the second tag in Paragraph Designer, pulled the
> definition for the first tag up, and selected the Next Pgf Tag box and
> chose the second paragraph tag's name from the drop-down list. This is
> pretty much how I do it every time I want a specific paragraph tag to
> follow. (I generally don't have text there because the issue cropped
> up in a template I'm currently creating.)
>
> FYI, I have the following plugins installed:
>
> Archive
> AutoText
> EZVars 3.02
> Sourcerer
> PGF_Whopper
> TOC Breaker
> RefIcons
> CudSpan Doc Tools
> Paragraph Tools
>
> When I get home, I'll try Richard's work around and report back.
>
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Sean Brierley
> <sbrierley -at- accu-time -dot- com>
> wrote:
>> How odd, because I just tested with empty paragraphs and the next tag
>> feature continues to work correctly for me.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Sean
>>
>> ___________
>> Sean Brierley
>> Technical Writer
>> www.accu-time.com
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: techwr-l-bounces+sbrierley=accu-time -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>> [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+sbrierley=accu-time -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com]
>> On Behalf Of Combs, Richard
>> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:21 AM
>> To: Lin Sims; framers -at- omsys -dot- com; framers -at- lists -dot- frameusers -dot- com;
>> techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>> Subject: RE: FM 8 "Next pgf tag" having no effect...
>>
>>
>> Lin Sims wrote:
>>
>>> This seems to be a (semi) long standing issue with FM8, in that
>>> others
>>
>>> have reported having problems with it: to be specific, when pressing
>>> return, FM ignores the Next Tag information and adds another line
>>> using the same tag.
>>>
>>> I ran into this issue last night. Since I didn't know that others
>>> had
>>
>>> experienced it, I thought it was something weird with my
>>> installation
>
>>> and I reinstalled everything. Not something I really wanted to do!
>>>
>>> The Adobe Forums thread
>>> (http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?128@@.3c059165) hasn't been updated
>>> since April.
>>>
>>> I was wondering if anyone had found a fix or work around for this in
>>> the months since?
>>
>> IIRC, the "workaround" is to type something in the first pgf before
>> pressing Enter. I believe it only behaves that way (maybe
>> intentionally
>> so?) if the first pgf is empty.
>>
>> HTH!
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
>> Richard G. Combs
>> Senior Technical Writer
>> Polycom, Inc.
>> richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
>> 303-223-5111
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>> 303-777-0436
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