Footnote color

[Lief Erickson]

Ah, that wasn't clear to me that he wanted just the number in the footnote. I thought he wanted the entire footnote and the number in the text.

Hmmm. Yeah, I don't know how you'd color just the number in the footnote itself, unless you want a hack way to do it.

I could imagine that you could make the default Footnote paragraph tag the color that you want, then use a Character tag (called Black that is set to As-Is except for the color) to change the paragraph color back to black. Be sure there is a space at the end of your footnote that you do not select and include when applying your Character tag though.

Like I said, it's a bit of a hack, but does get you a colored number and black text in your footnotes.

-Lief

From: Roger Shuttleworth [mailto:rshuttleworth at avbasesystems.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 9:01 AM
To: Lief Erickson; Pat Christenson; Frame Users
Subject: RE: Footnote color

Hello Lief

The issue is, though, that you can't access the footnote number alone, since it's not defined in the footnote paragraph format. Any changes to the paragraph format are applied to the whole footnote, not just the number. As far as I can see, there is no way to format the number differently from the text. This appears to be so whether you are using structured or unstructured documents. I'd be happy to be proved wrong...

Regards,
Roger

Roger Shuttleworth
Technical Documentation
AV-BASE Systems Inc.
1000 Air Ontario Drive, Suite 200
London, Ontario
N5V 3S4
Tel. 519 691-0919 ext. 330
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From: Lief Erickson [mailto:lief at networkinstruments.com]
To: Pat Christenson [mailto:pxenson at comcast.net], Frame Users [mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com]
Sent: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:50:52 -0400
Subject: RE: Footnote color

Do you want the color applied universally to all footnotes through a template or do you want each footnote to have its own color?

To apply color to all footnotes, simply change the color of your Footnote tag in your template. You could also apply color on a one-off basis, but that creates paragraph overrides -- something most FrameMaker users usually want to avoid.

To apply color to the Footnote number, I think you'll need to create a Character tag that is the color that you want and apply that Character tag to the number.

-Lief

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com>] On Behalf Of Pat Christenson
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 11:32 PM
To: Frame Users
Subject: Footnote color

Hi -

Is there a way to automatically apply a color to a footnote number,
both in text and in the footnote?

Thanks.

Pat


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