FW: One paragraph style -> Many Elements

[Diane Gaskill]

-----Original Message-----
From: Diane Gaskill [mailto:dgcaller at earthlink.net]
Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 1:27 PM
To: Rick Quatro
Cc: framers
Subject: RE: One paragraph style -> Many Elements


Hi Rick,

I'm converting a bunch of word docs to SFM.  I'm importing them into UFM and
then using tablecleaner to clean up the tables, but the table title in word
is a text string above the table and not part of the table.  It takes
practically forever to manually cut and paste the strings into the title
fields in the FM tables.  Could a FS automate that?

I also noticed that many paragraphs that come in from Word don't have
paratag names at all in FM.  If they were just the wrong tag names, it would
be a no-brainer to just rename them, but there is nothing in the name field
of the para designer when I select the para in FM.  Do you know what is
going on and why I can do to make the names show up?  Rename the tags in
word, to a legitimate FM tag maybe?

Thanks,
Diane
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-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com]On Behalf Of Rick Quatro
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 5:07 PM
To: 'Eric Geissinger'; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: One paragraph style -> Many Elements


Hi Eric,

You can't do this with the conversion table method. I would pre-process the
file and retag you heading_2 paragraphs, based on their content. Then you
can modify your conversion table to use the renamed heading_2 tags. Follow
these basic steps:

1) Click in one of the heading_2 paragraphs.
2) Use the Paragraph Designer to create a new format for this particular
heading_2 paragraph.
3) With your cursor in the newly tagged paragraph, choose Edit > Copy
Special > Paragraph Format.
4) Choose Edit > Find/Change. Type in the unique string that you want to
search on; for example FUNCTION NAME. In the Change popup, choose By
Pasting.
5) Click Find and Change a few instances. If you are sure that your Find
string is unique and will only find text in heading_2 paragraphs, click
Change All.

Repeat with the other 2 heading_2 paragraphs.

If you want to automate this with FrameScript, please send me a sample
document and contact me offlist. Please let me know if you have any
questions or comments. Thank you very much.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
585-659-8267
rick at frameexpert.com

*** Frame Automation blog at http://frameautomation.com



-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Eric Geissinger
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 1:50 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: One paragraph style -> Many Elements

I'm working on an unstructured Frame book, getting it structured via the
Conversion Table method (Frame 9) using a custom EDD.

I have a hideously embarrassingly easy question to ask.

At least I think so?

What is the best way to map a single paragraph style (for example,
heading_2) to differently named containers depending on the content of the
paragraph style (text).

For example:

heading_2   FUNCTION NAME
[...]
heading_2   Prototype
[...]
heading_2   Return Value
[...]

Where above is paragraph style name followed by text associated with the
paragraph style, and [...] is whatever following the headings.

It would be delicious to be able to map:

heading_2 to element FUNCTION_Name iff text of heading_2 = "FUNCTION NAME"
heading_2 to element Proto iff text of heading_2="Prototype"
etc.

To be avoided is changing all the heading_2's by hand to new names to match
their element.

Is there a way to do this that's, like, easy?

I'd be open to an automated way of changing the paragraph style names to
match their text, actually, now that I think about it... are there Frame
utilities allowing such a thing?

Any and all help appreciated, else I might just lose my hair.  Via pulling.
And that's bad.



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EzG
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