FrameMaker double-click oddity

[Art Campbell]

Saving as a MIF cleans out any stray characters that may show up if
content was imported from Word or another word processor... or
possibly a version of FM with a higher rev number than yours (maybe
references to Unicode, for instance).

Because it does fix the problem, I'd suspect that there are hidden
characters in the incoming files.

Art

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On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Steve
Rickaby<srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm seeing something odd when I work on FrameMaker files here which I don't see in a new FrameMaker document, to do with selection of text by clicking. These files come from a specific template that originated at another company based in India as far as I know.
>
> The default behaviour in FrameMaker is that double-clicking selects a word and triple-clicking selects a paragraph, as we all know. In these files:
>
> . double-clicking does nothing
>
> . triple-clicking selects a word
>
> . quad-clicking selects a word as well
>
> . five clicks are required to select a paragraph
>
> Is there anything that could explain this? It all seems a bit sluggish, too, despite the fact that the files aren't excessively large.
>
> I tried MIFing the files, and this odd problem goes away, as does the sluggishness. As a wise friend is wont to write, 'Go figure' ;-)
>
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