Paragraph catalog sort order
Fred Ridder
docudoc at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 8 11:00:38 PST 2008
Has anyone found a workaround for the change in the sort
order used in the Paragraph Catalog and other listings of
paragraph tags?
Our company's templates were set up with 1- or 2-character
prefixes for all the common paragraph tags to facilitate keyboard
selection via the F9 key. The most commonly used tags had
a single-character prefix so that they'd sort to the top of their
respective group, and the less common tags had a second
character that was either a digit (to indicate indent level)
or a mnemonically selected alpha character. For example,
we have
B-Body
B2-Body 2
B3-Body 3
B4-Body 4
and
T-Table Title
TB-Table
TB-Table Body Center
TH-Table Heading
etc, etc.
This worked beautifully in FM6.0 and FM7.x. But in FM8,
the sort order for the list changed and the hyphen now
sorts *after* any alphanumeric character so that the
order now looks like:
B2-Body 2
B3-Body 3
B4-Body 4
B-Body
Pressing F9 and then B, gets you B2. Pressing B again
gets you B3. The only way to get to the base B-Body
tag is four Bs or else B and a hyphen. And its much
worse for the table tags, where the T-Table Title tag
is now sorted as the last of 16 related tags stating
with T.
Other than a wholesale renaming of the paragraph tags
in our templates and all documents based on them to
change the hyphens to spaces, I guess we'll just have
to get used to typing the hyphen whenever we use the
F9 shortcut. Sigh...Fred Ridder
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