Char and Para Tag Updating - Across Books

[Fred Ridder]

When you say "edit/update Char and Para tags" are you referring to the formatting associated with the tags, or to the tags themselves (e.g., their names and/or how they are applied)?  
 
If it's the former, it's really quite easy:
 
1) Update the format definitions in one file. This can be any file: a file from the book, a file from a different book, or a separate template file. Save the file but leave it open.
2) From the book window, select the component files that need to be updated.
3) Choose File>Import>Formats, and select only the Character and Paragraph formats in the dialog. 
4) Click Import.  
5) After a few moments to a few minutes (depending on the number of files and how long it takes to open each of them), you'll be all done. 
 
Note that this process will change the formats for all tags that appear in both the "source" (template) and "target" (document) files, and will add any new formats that are in the template. It will not delete unused formats, and it will not change the names of any tags, and it will not map any existing tags to new ones. To do any of those things, you will need either a plug-in or FrameScript plus an appropriate script (or a lot of time and patience to do it by hand).
 
-Fred Ridder
 



From: Alison.Craig at ultrasonix.com
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 14:23:22 -0700
Subject: Char and Para Tag Updating - Across Books







FM 9 Version: 9.0p255
Unstructured
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate, 64 bit
 
 
Is there any way to edit/update Char and Para tags across all files in a book?
 
When I started with Frame about 3 years, it was a brand new experience for me and I didn’t always use (actually, I didn’t always know) best practices.
 
My current project is to try, as I update a book for the next revision, is to “fix” many of my original Char and Para tags. I’ve searched in the Using Adobe FrameMaker 9 pdf and Scriptorium’s Unstructured FrameMaker 8, but I haven’t found anything that tells me how to update Char or Para tags across all files in a book.
 
Am I really going to have to do this the hard way?
 
Alison 
 
 
Alison Craig 
Technical Documentation Lead

604-279-8550 | fax 604-279-8559 | toll-free 1-866-437-9508
Ultrasonix Medical Corporation | www.ultrasonix.com


 
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