framers Digest, Vol 64, Issue 21

[Thornton, Daniel]

We used to use a character tag for change bars, but found that method
made it impossible to use FrameMaker's convenient change bar clearing
feature when we migrated to the next product release
(Format>Document>Change Bars... select "Clear All Change Bars (No
Undo)"). That FM feature saves you from having to search for and remove
your ChangeBar character format from numerous phrases, many of which may
have other character formats, such as Emphasis, also applied.

Instead use the FrameMaker Style called Change Bar. Select the revised
text and use the shortcut Alt, o, y, c. (Format>Style>Change Bar). When
you're ready to start working on your next version, the "Clear All
Change Bars" checkbox will permanently erase all your old change bars so
you're ready to start marking your new edits.

	- Dan


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Message: 23
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:07:32 -0700
From: "Carol J. Elkins" <celkins at awrittenword.com>
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Revision marks (bars)
Message-ID: <20110222230845.23AA92A48DC1 at mail.beyondprint.com>
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I create a character tag that I routinely label zz:change_bar. I'll 
explain why later. The character tag sets everything AS IS except I 
enable the change bars option.

Select each word or paragraph that you want to be marked with change 
bars and apply the character tag.

When you are ready to remove the change bars, search for the 
character tag entitled zz:change_bar to find all instances and select 
the Default Font option in the Character catalog to remove the tag. 
To ensure that you have removed all the zz: tags, select 
Format>Document>Change Bars>Clear All Change Bars. This is important 
because often the zz: tag will remain on any paragraph that contains 
an override.

Carol

At 11:00 AM 2/22/2011, you wrote:
>I would really like to make the use of revision bars to indicate 
>changes made to a document that I am working on. I am aware of 
>automatic change bars. I don't think this is the best option because 
>it indicates all changes with a revision bar. I would like to be 
>able to handle which "revisions" get highlighted as a change. I seem 
>to recall the use of character tag or something along those lines 
>but that method seemed to have some drawbacks. The criteria that is 
>most important to me is being able to remove the revisions marks 
>when going from version 2 to 3 so that the next set of revision 
>marks only indicates the changes in version 3 and not versions 2 and 
>3. Has someone developed a "bulletproof" process or methodology for 
>handling revisions to documents?

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