Converting to Character Formats

[Yves Barbion]

Hello Bob and fellow framers,

there is a quicker way for the last part the process you described: 
"...rename the tag to the appropriate character format in your template, 
then reimport your template, then delete the charfmt tags from your 
catalog."

It's a GREAT plug-in called TemplateMapper.  More info here: 
http://www.stc-carolina.org/sigs/frame/tools/mapper.html

I don't know if the price information is still up-to-date though. I's 
been a while since we heard from Chris. Are you still "out there", Chris?

Best regards

Yves Barbion 
Technical Writer
Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor
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Robert Kern wrote:

> Marcus,
>
> We get hard coded stuff coming over from Word all the time. The most 
> efficient way we've found to find and tag all of it with the 
> appropriate character tag is to use the file/utilities/create and 
> apply formats. This will create a format for any untagged and hard 
> coded formatting, ie charfmt1, charfmt2, charfmt3, etc...  You then 
> just isolate what characteristic each new tag represents, then rename 
> the tag to the appropriate character format in your template, then 
> reimport your template, then delete the charfmt tags from your 
> catalog.  This also works well for paragraph formats.
>
> If someone has a quicker way to do this, I'd love to learn :)
>
>
> -bob
>
> Robert Kern
> President, TIPS Technical Publishing, Inc.
> 108 E. Main Street, Suite 4
> Carrboro, NC  27510
> www.technicalpublishing.com
> bob at technicalpublishing.com
> 919-933-2629 phone and fax
>
>
> Marcus Carr wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like to convert text formatted as bold into text formatted by 
>> a character format.
>>
>> I don't think this should be hard, but it seems that there are likely 
>> to be a number of ways of skinning this cat, and I'm interested in 
>> the pros and cons. Any good plug ins or API clients available? Thanks 
>> in advance,
>>
>>
>