Annoying FM quirk

[David Spreadbury]

I see the same, or very similar, behavior running 7.2.

Sometimes the pilcrow for a tag changes from 10pt to about 14pt Bold. Reapplying the tag fixes the problem. This doesn't appear to have any affect on generated PDFs. It seems to be a display issue within Frame. I am using Structured Frame, so a look at the Structure View displays that a NewPage element has been inserted.

It could be related to the age old display problem in Frame. There are times that entire paragraphs of test disappear behind an illustration. Pressing Ctrl+L (Refresh) puts everything back the way it is supposed to be. This has been a nuisance bug for years. Yours may be related. I believe Shlomo maintains a known buglist that should describe the problem better.

BTW, I have a similar tag, as your PageBreak, called NewPage. I can insert it anywhere to force an object (Figure, Table, step, whatever) to start on the next page, essentially inserting a page break. Nothing is displayed on the screen because the point size is set to a very small amount, 1 or 2pt.

--- On Wed, 11/10/10, Alison Craig <Alison.Craig at ultrasonix.com> wrote:

From: Alison Craig <Alison.Craig at ultrasonix.com>
Subject: RE: Annoying FM quirk
To: "info at spectrumwritingllc.com" <info at spectrumwritingllc.com>, "framers at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Date: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 1:34 PM


I have exactly the same issue with my PageBreak tag (which is *supposed* to be Cyan in colour).

The formatting (900 pt below) holds true but the colour disappears.

If anyone has an answer, I'd love to know.

FYI:
FM 9 Version: 9.0p255
Unstructured
OS: XP Pro with SP3

Alison

Alison Craig, Technical Writer
Ultrasonix Medical Corporation
Tel: (604) 279-8550, ext 127
E-mail: alison.craig at ultrasonix.com
 
 
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All,

 

I have a paragraph tag named PageBreak that is designed to do what the name
implies - put in a PageBreak at specific location that I select. The tag has
a 750.00 pt Below Pfg characteristic and I have also applied a bright
Fuschia color so that I can differentiate the pilcrow for the tag from that
of a simple Body tag. When I apply the tag, the pilcrow is displayed in the
Fuschia color, but after that, boom, it's a crapshoot. Sometimes the pilcrow
holds the color and other times, it doesn't and I have to go back manually
reapply the tag. It's very annoying as when proof-reading/editing my
documents, I need to confirm that the tag is indeed a PageBreak tag and not
a Body tag. (If I were just printing the manuals, then it wouldn't be an
issue, but I am single-sourcing these docs. and using ePublisher to produce
online help, so the issue becomes critical for this.)

 

Has anyone experienced this or something similar at all? Why on earth won't
the pilcrow hold the color? 

 

FWIW, I am using FM9 (all patched and current) on a Win7 64-bit system.

 

TIA,

 

TVB

 

Tammy Van Boening

Owner/Principal

Spectrum Writing, LLC

www.spectrumwritingllc.com

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