AW: Char and Para Tag Updating - Across Books

[Georg Eck]

Hi Alison,

 

the strategy should be:

1.       Rename all Char and Para tags in  your book and

2.       Then import a Template with correct Char and Para formats over
the book.

 

Topic 1: Take TOOLBOX 9 for FrameMaker 9 (or Finalyser for FM10 or Fm11)
with following feature:

 

 

"Rename Format Names by Configuartion" You can design a table with all
correct and wrong tags to rename it.

More information about this feature see at Online Manual, here: 
http://www.finalyser.com/help/#page/Finalyser%2520Online-Help/rename_for
mats.xml.16.2.html

 

Topic 2: See Fred's description.

 

-          Georg

 

Subject: RE: Char and Para Tag Updating - Across Books

 

Unfortunately, I am renaming some tags and updating some settings that I
didn't set consistently when I first created tags. 

 

Your mention of plugins jarred my memory. I have Silicon Prairie's Char
and Para Tools. The conversion tool included in each looks like it might
do what I want. Now I just have to study them a bit to figure out the
details (and make backups before trying anything!)

 

Thanks for the help!

 

Alison

 

 

Subject: RE: Char and Para Tag Updating - Across Books

 

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
 

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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
<http://www.ultrasonix.com/> 

 

 





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