ANN: Framescript to disambiguate "List Paragraph" style

[Yves Barbion]

Hi group

When people author content in Word, they often use the infamous (but
popular) "Bullets" and "Numbering" buttons to create bulleted and numbered
lists, respectively. This will put the style named "List Paragraph" on the
text. When you open the Word file in FrameMaker, you will see that the
bullets and numbering has been preserved. The FrameMaker paratag is still
"List Paragraph", but different autonumbering schemes have been used:

•        \b\t for the bulleted lists

•        <n+>.\t or <n=1>.\t for the numbered lists


So Frame used an override to preserve the bullets and numbering. This is
okay as long as you keep the override, but it's a problem:

•        If you want you maintain and update this content in FrameMaker

•        If you want to convert this content to DITA


In these cases, you may want to remove the overrides, but you will also need
to disambiguate the "List Paragraph" style as follows:

•        IF autonumbering = \b\t, THEN apply the paratag <li> (or
<listitem>)

•        IF autonumbering = <n+>.\t OR = <n=1>.\t, THEN apply the paratag
<step>



Rick Quatro has now developed a Framescript which can do this. For more
information and ordering:



http://frameautomation.com/about/


Cheers

-- 
Yves Barbion
www.scripto.nu