Footnote color

[Pat Christenson]

Hi Lief -

That's something I hadn't thought of trying. I'll have to see how  
insistent the client is on having a color on the footnote numbers.  
Thanks.

Pat


On Aug 17, 2010, at 7:16 AM, Lief Erickson wrote:

> 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
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> Tel. 519 691-0919 ext. 330
> 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] 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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