Long Figure Tiles in FrameMaker 7.2 Windows

[Peter Gold]

Hi, Brenda:

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Brenda Waltermeyer
<Brenda.Waltermeyer at jhuapl.edu> wrote:
> I have a document that has very long Figure Titles, but the author only
> wants part of the title in the List of Figures when it is generated. Is
> there a way to do this so I don¹t have to do it manually every time I
> generate the list.


You can use a combination of conditional text, copy special, and find/replace.

* Create a character tag to mark the text to be or dropped from the
TOC. Define the all the character tag properties as As Is, using
Commands > Set Window To As Is, so it doesn't change any of  the
selected text's visible properties. The tag is retained in the
generated TOC.

* Create a condition tag In the generated TOC, and apply it to an
example word. Use Edit > Copy Special to copy the condition from the
insertion point location to the clipboard.

* In the generated TOC, use Find/Replace to find all occurrences of
the character tag by pasting; this applies the condition to the tagged
text.

* Hide the condition to hide the text.

Each time you regenerate the TOC, you'll need to repeat the
Find/Replace All operation. You may want to show the indicators on the
conditionalized text, to verify that the tagging is accurate.

HTH

Regards,

Peter
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