Finding overrides in Framemaker files

[Tammy Van Boening]

Craig,

 

Yep, like you, I have mixed luck w/ the remove override option being
automatically selected. I can't figure out why it works sometimes and not
others. At this point, just finding them is the start that I need and I can
go from there.

 

Thanks everyone who responded. I appreciate the professional courtesy and
consideration.

 

TVB

 

From: Craig Ede [mailto:craigede at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 2:09 PM
To: tammyvb at spectrumwritingllc.com; framers
Subject: RE: Finding overrides in Framemaker files

 

Tammy,
 
In FM 10 (and 11) you can use the find/change function by selecting  Find >
Paragraph Format Override from the drop-down list. There are also drop down
selections for Character Format Override and Table Format Override as well.
 
I've had mixed luck with the remove override option that is automatically
selected in the replace selection for all these, but it does find all the
overrides so you can fix them. 
If your goal is only to catalog them, this is of little help if there are
many overrides. 
 
Maybe someone has already suggested this.
 

Craig 

> Tammy Van Boening wrote:
> 
> > Framemaker 10, all patched, Win 7, 64 bit.
> > I have a Framemaker book that contains 8 chapter files. I know that 
> > overrides to paragraph styles in a file are marked with an asterisk in 
> > the Information Bar at the bottom of the file. I am producing OLH for 
> > a client using a 15 year old technology (Sun JavaHelp) and I don't 
> > have an option to change that right now. In the tool that I use, 
> > ePublisher, reports are generated including a Styles report that 
> > specifically lists all paragraph tags that have an override to them. 
> > This report, however, is not available for a Sun JavaHelp output for 
> > many reasons but I still need to be able to find overrides in the 
> > Framemaker source files. Is there a script that is available to do this,
> or is there a way to use FM's functionality that I am not aware of to do
> this?
>

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