FM8 Updates (was: Re: difficulties using italics for index entries in FM 8.0)

[Fred Ridder]

Jeremy Griffith wrote (in part):
 
> One of 277's "features" is a change to the sort order of the
> formats in the catalogs that makes mincemeat of keyboard
> usage for applying formats (Ctrl-number-letters). The same
> "improvement" is in FM9, but thankfully there is a maker.ini
> setting to make it work the old (correct) way. With 277,
> you're stuck with it; you can't undo the patch unless you
> uninstall and reinstall from the original media. Be warned.
 
On my system, each of the updates appears as a separate item
in the Control Panel's Add or Remove Programs listing, and I 
was able to successfully roll back (or at least it *seemed* to 
be completely successful...) from 277 to 273 by removing 
the "Adobe FrameMaker 8 p277 Patcher" item. 
 
-Fred Ridder