Display of variable content in Structured FM

[Nantel, Elise]

Dan,

I did what you suggested (create a new character format for Verdana,
then include it in the definition of my variables). For the text that is
directly typed in the file (as opposed as in a text inset), I need to
remove the variable then insert it again; otherwise, weirdly enough, the
variable is displayed in a bigger font than that of the body text (but
in Verdana). 
The newly inserted variable is displayed in the proper font and size,
and it remains like that after importing the variables. 

For a text inset, an extra step is required. I imported the changed
variables and character format in it. It's displayed OK when I look at
the file; however, after importing the variables in the container file,
the variables are displayed as Times. I need to explicitly update the
text inset to clear the Times.

A big thank you Dan,

Elise
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Emory [mailto:danemory7224 at sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: 31 mars 2007 11:30
To: Framers List
Subject: Re: Display of variable content in Structured FM

--- "Nantel, Elise" <Elise.Nantel at verint.com> wrote:
> I'm working with Structured FM 7.0 on Windows XP.
> I use a lot of variables in my manuals, typically
> for product lines and product names. Sometimes after
> I generate a structured book, the variable content >
> appears in Times New Roman instead of Verdana. It's
> really weird because it doesn't occur all the times
> or on all variables. It happens also in text insets.
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Elise:
The most likely cause is that the text which precedes
the variable insertion point is not in the Verdana
font.

The assured way of fixing it is to do the following:

1. Add a character format named Verdana in which you
specify the font as Verdana, and the size as "As Is."

2. Open the Variable dialog, select, select a user
variable, and click Edit Definition to open the Edit
User Variable dialog.

3. Observe that the the new Verdana character format
now appears in the list of character formats.

4. Presumably, the definition slot now contains
nothing but the value of the user variable. Let's
assume that the current definition is "Blah."

5. Change the variable definition as follows:
<Ventana>Blah<default font> 

If this fails to correct the problem, then you have
identified another bug in Frame 7.0. 
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Dan Emory & Associates
FrameMaker/FrameMaker+SGML Document Design & Database Publishing
<danemory7224 at sbcglobal.net>

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