generate a list of paragraph tag properties?

[Mike Wickham]

The FormatList plugin from Squidds is great for this, but not cheap (49 
Euro). It creates a table, with one row for each paragraph format and 
cells in the row for nearly all of the properties of each paragraph 
format. It's very handy, since it makes it easy to scan down a column to 
see, for example, the one paragraph format that has a typeface different 
than all the rest. It also creates tables for character formats, 
variables, and cross-references:

http://www.squidds.de/fileadmin/daten/finalyser/PDF/Pricelist_Orderform_FINALYSER_US_only_Nov2011_Squid_RZ_verteilt.pdf

I like FormatList a lot, but the Squidds site is hard to navigate, 
payment is difficult (no shopping cart), the price is a bit high, it's 
only one license (so no second copy on your laptop for travel) and there 
are no free upgrades when the FM version changes. And there's a bit of a 
language barrier, since the site is hosted by people who speak German 
natively. But FormatList is easier to use than the similar feature in 
Silicon Prairie's Paragraph Tools and Character Tools (which I would buy 
anyway for all the other great things they do). Those tools create a 
separate table for each paragraph style, so the result doesn't make it 
easy to compare all the styles in a document to see if, for example, the 
same serif typefaces are used throughout.

I do wish the FormatList plugin also made a table of table formats!

On 11/22/2011 5:09 AM, Studio Smalbro wrote:
> I need to generate a list of paragraph tag properties used in a 
> document. I know how to generate a list of paragraph tags, but is 
> there also a way to make FrameMaker generate a description of the 
> properties used in each paragraph tag?