renaming a variable
Yves Barbion
yves.barbion at gmail.com
Tue Apr 18 06:33:54 PDT 2006
Hello John,
maybe a tip for "variable naming conventions": use a number as a prefix in
your variable name. None of the system variables start with a number.
Therefore, I name my variables as follows:
1-productname01
1-productname02
2-companyname01
2-companyname02
3-docname01
4-doctype01
5-versionnumber01
...
And indeed, BookVars may help to "manage" your variables.
And finally, if you want to update an existing user variable, the safest way
is using a "MIF snippet", i.e. a very small MIF file which just contains the
name and definition of the variable and nothing else. Example:
<MIFFile 7.00> # Generated by FrameMaker 7.0p578
<VariableFormats
<VariableFormat
<VariableName `1-productname01'>
<VariableDef `<uicontrol\>PitStop Professional<Default Para Font>'>
> # end of VariableFormat
> # end of VariableFormats
# End of MIFFile
Good luck and best regards
--
Yves Barbion
Technical Writer
Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor
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