Commas in paragraph tags

[quills at airmail.net]

I think you are mostly correct, I've seen Word combine tag names like 
this when it encounters tags witht he exact same formatting but 
different names. Doing that, always made my life more difficult. It's 
a "feature" of Word that only creates problems for users.

Scott

At 10:45 AM -0600 10/27/08, Combs, Richard wrote:
>Charles Beck wrote:
>
>>  I have a set of templates that I inherited. I want to use the Heading
>2
>>  paragraph style in a running header. Unfortunately, the paragraph
>style
>>  is actually named "Heading 2,H2", which confuses FrameMaker when
>>  encountered in a system variable paragraph tag <$paratext[Heading
>>  2,H2]>. Frame thinks it is a multiple style reference because of the
>>  comma. That much I have learned from the documentation.
>>
>>  The question is, short of renaming the paragraph style (which is not
>>  really an option for us), is there any way to get Frame to recognized
>>  this as a single paragraph style in a paragraph tag for a running
>>  header?
>
>I'm guessing these templates either began life in Word or were created
>by someone more familiar with Word than FM -- this is a common naming
>convention in Word templates. IIRC, Word recognizes the parts on either
>side of the comma as alternative names, so the "H2" part makes keyboard
>tagging easier. (It's been more than a decade since I did any serious
>work in Word, so I may be misremembering the reason, but I'm sure it's a
>Word-type tag name.)
>
>In any case, this naming convention serves no useful purpose in FM, and
>you've now discovered a fairly significant drawback. So why isn't
>changing it an option?
>
>Richard
>
>
>Richard G. Combs
>Senior Technical Writer
>Polycom, Inc.
>richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
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