FM 8 "Next pgf tag" having no effect...

[Lin Sims]

You want something even MORE odd? The exact same document (as in, it's
stored on a thumb drive that I access directly for this) has this
issue on my home machine but works perfectly on my office machine. And
the day before yesterday, it worked at home, too!

Both machines have Frame 8.0 p277, on Windows XP SP3. It's in
Structured View, but I'm not using elements or anything, just standard
tags. As far as I can tell, this has no effect on what I'm doing since
I'm not inserting any elements or attributes.

I round-tripped the document through MIF to no avail.

As to set up: I created the first tag in Paragraph Designer, pressed
return, created the second tag in Paragraph Designer, pulled the
definition for the first tag up, and selected the Next Pgf Tag box and
chose the second paragraph tag's name from the drop-down list. This is
pretty much how I do it every time I want a specific paragraph tag to
follow. (I generally don't have text there because the issue cropped
up in a template I'm currently creating.)

FYI, I have the following plugins installed:

Archive
AutoText
EZVars 3.02
Sourcerer
PGF_Whopper
TOC Breaker
RefIcons
CudSpan Doc Tools
Paragraph Tools

When I get home, I'll try Richard's work around and report back.

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Sean Brierley <sbrierley at accu-time.com> wrote:
> How odd, because I just tested with empty paragraphs and the next tag
> feature continues to work correctly for me.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sean
>
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> Behalf Of Combs, Richard
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:21 AM
> To: Lin Sims; framers at omsys.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com;
> techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com
> Subject: RE: FM 8 "Next pgf tag" having no effect...
>
>
> Lin Sims wrote:
>
>> This seems to be a (semi) long standing issue with FM8, in that others
>
>> have reported having problems with it: to be specific, when pressing
>> return, FM ignores the Next Tag information and adds another line
>> using the same tag.
>>
>>  I ran into this issue last night. Since I didn't know that others had
>
>> experienced it, I thought it was something weird with my installation
>> and I reinstalled everything. Not something I really wanted to do!
>>
>> The Adobe Forums thread
>> (http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?128@@.3c059165) hasn't been updated
>> since April.
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone had found a fix or work around for this in
>> the months since?
>
> IIRC, the "workaround" is to type something in the first pgf before
> pressing Enter. I believe it only behaves that way (maybe intentionally
> so?) if the first pgf is empty.
>
> HTH!
>
> Richard
>
>
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