Tag-compare tool?

Peter Gold peter at knowhowpro.com
Wed Dec 17 08:46:54 PST 2008


Hi, Nancy:

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Nancy Allison <maker at verizon.net> wrote:
> While I'm drawing on your endless font of wisdom, O Frame Gurus, I have
> another question: I see a document-compare function in Framemaker, but
> my web search has not turned up a tag-compare function within (or
> between) documents.
>
> My document has an Anchor paragraph tag and an AnchorTable paragraph
> tag. In my zeal to reduce the number of tags, I'd like to know the
> difference between these tags.
>
> I know how to print out an exhaustive list of tags (I think it's from
> that lovely CleanImport plugin), so I can go cross-eyed comparing the
> tag properties in print. BUT . . . is there a way within Frame, or with
> a plugin, to compare two tags using the astonishing powers of the
> computer, which doesn't even go crosseyed with effort?

* Select the text of each file's list of tags and convert it to a
table. Sort the tables.

OR

* Tag the text of each file's list of tags with a unique tag and
generate an alphabetic paragraph list.

HTH

Regards,

Peter
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