Why won't FrameMaker use the default attribute I set in the EDD?

[Scott Prentice]

Hi Heather...

I believe that FM's default DITA support doesn't respond to editing the 
image attributes directly (might work with some of them). Select the 
anchored frame and choose Special > Anchored Frame, then select the 
desired alignment. This will set the frame alignment and *should* set 
the alignment attribute as well. There are a number of other 
properties/attributes that work this way as well. In general, it's set 
up to use the "GUI" property setting options rather than setting things 
via attributes.

You should be able set the default value in the EDD and the r/w rules, 
and it should honor that when inserting the image. If it doesn't, that's 
definitely a bug.

BTW .. DITA-FMx does these things properly.  :o

Cheers,

...scott


On 6/11/13 12:19 PM, Heather Thomas wrote:
> Thank you, Nadine and Scott, for your replies.
>
> Nadine: I am using FM 11 (sorry I didn't specify in my first post). 
> Yes, I want to change the default alignment of images. I did change 
> the default setting in the EDD and then import the element definitions 
> into my template. I know that the EDD was imported because when I set 
> choices vs. string, I could see the choices in the Attributes pod. 
> What I'm asking is why FrameMaker is ignoring the default of left that 
> I set and leaving it as <no value>, but instead is making it center 
> aligned when I save. What's especially mysterious is that it actually 
> says at the bottom of the Attributes pod "align Type: Optional Choice 
> Default: left" but doesn't use that default value.
>
> Scott: Thanks for your suggestion to "use the default image properties 
> dialog. Don't try setting the element attribute." I happily excused 
> your unexpected brevity because you sent your message from your phone. 
> :) Perhaps sometime when you are at your computer, could you please 
> elaborate on this? I can't find the dialog you mentioned, and if this 
> is actually a bug that I can't set the element attribute using my EDD, 
> then I would like to report it. I have read your response on the 
> following Adobe forum post: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3681019. 
> Like the original poster there, the Anchored Frame dialog works 
> properly for me. Manually setting the attribute to left does what I 
> would expect as well. I have also ensured that I have the following in 
> my rules:
> /attribute "align" {/
>
> /    is fm attribute "align";/
>
> /    is fm property alignment;/
>
> /    value "left" is fm property value align left;/
>
> Like I said before, it's not critical or anything, but it would be 
> nice if we could set the default alignment in the EDD and have FM obey it.
>
> Thanks again!
> Heather
>
> PS - Please note that there is a delay of at least 24 hours from the 
> time I post to the time my message appears on the list.

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