Workaround for marker character limit?

[Lynne A. Price]

Frank, Scott,
   Very interesting. I created a MIF file in which I inserted an Index 
marker containing 900 characters and also a variable whose definition had 
900 characters. I opened the MIF file and saved the result back to MIF. 
Both 900-character strings were still there, so the entire length indeed is 
stored in the document.
   When I inserted the variable in the text, all 900 characters appear. 
However, when I created an index, only the first 255 characters from the 
marker text appear in the index entry. Thus, getting all the text into the 
marker isn't sufficient to create the desired index.

Kay,
   Do any of the very long index entries differ after the 255th character? 
If not, you might want to use an abbreviation of the full text in the 
markers, generate the index, and then do a global replace of the short 
names with their longer equivalents.
         --Lynne


At 03:27 PM 7/5/2006, Frank Elmore wrote:
>I just ran a quick test using FrameScript and the limit (as suggested 
>below) appears to be with the UI. I was able to create a marker with 3000 
>characters. You should be able to create a script (or an FDK client if you 
>don't have FrameScript) to enter these values.  Unfortunately, the 
>FrameMaker will still only use the first 255 when you generate an index.


Lynne A. Price
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