Grouping Definitions

[Diane Gaskill]

Hello Matt and welcome to the world of FM.

As far as I know, FM cannot do this for you.  To group tags, you need to
name them so that they fall into groups by themselves.  Here are some pretty
standard examples:

BodyText

Bullet1 (the number referS to the level)
Bullet2
Bullet3

Heading1
Heading2
Heading3
Heading4
Heading5

Indent1 (matches the level of Bullet1, Numbered1, etc.)
Indent2
Indent3

Numbered1 <n=1> starts a list
Numbered2 <n+> (continued numbering)
Numbereda <a=1>(2nd level, lettered list)
Numberedb <a+>(2nd level, lettered list, continued)
There are several ways to set up autonumbering, this is a simple method)

TableBullet1
TableBullet2
TableHeading
TableText
TableTitle

In addition, to facilitate keyboard shortcuts, you can add a prefix in front
of the tag names, like this:

bo Body
b1 Bullet1
h1 Heading1
i1 Indent1
n1 Numbered1
n2 Numbered2
na Numbereda
nb Numberedb


That way, you will neve have to scroll through even a small group of tags.
You get the right one the first time. Note that you do not need to have a
space between the prefix and the tag name.  You can also use underscores if
you want to.  For example, b1 Bullet1, b1Bullet1, and b1_bullet1 all work
the same way.

To use the keyboard shortcut, Press F9, type the prefix, and press Enter.

Organize your character tags the same way.  Press F8 by itself to set the
default paragraph font.  Press F8, enter the char tag prefix, and then press
Enter to use the shortcut.

Name variable names and conditional text tags the same way.  You need to do
a little planning to set this up, but in the long run it can save you a lot
of time.

Hope this helps.

Diane Gaskill
Hitachi Data Systems


-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces+dgcaller=earthlink.net at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+dgcaller=earthlink.net at lists.frameusers.com]On
Behalf Of MATT TODD
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 6:19 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Grouping Definitions


Hi, everyone,

I am a newbie using FM 7.0. Does FM provide a way to group character
definitions or paragraph styles. For example, in the Character
Definition window, I'd like to place all size definitions in a "Size"
folder and all color definitions in a "Color" folder, and I'd like those
folders to appear in the Character Definition window selection pop-up.
I'd like the same thing in the Paragraph Designer - all paragraph styles
having to do with tables in a "Table" folder, all styles defining
numbered, lettered, or bulleted lists in a "Lists" folder - and those
folders to appear in the Paragraph Designer selection pop-up.

Anyway to accomplish this in native FM, or perhaps a script? By the way,
I'm the same Matt who won the LavaCon registration at the 2006 Austin
Chautauqua.

Matt

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