Paragraph catalog sort order

[Reng, Dr. Winfried]

Hi,

When the tag you want to access is the last one in a series,
you could also use the Shift key to select the last item.
Example: F9 Shift+t to select TH.

Best regards

Winfried

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Fred Ridder
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 8:01 PM
> To: framers at frameusers.com
> Subject: Paragraph catalog sort order
> 
> 
> 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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