End-of-flow wildcard?

[Rick Quatro]

The FrameMaker Word import filter leaves a line-feed character at the end of
each paragraph. You can't see it, but it is there and apparently affects
your search. I routinely strip them out in my scripts. A MIF-wash should
remove them.

Rick

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
585-366-4017
rick at frameexpert.com




-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Rickaby
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2014 10:26 AM
To: Craig Ede; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: End-of-flow wildcard?

At 09:07 -0600 19/1/14, Craig Ede wrote:

>Hmmm, I know I used it for searches in that version. Let me look into 
>it on my old laptop.
>
>For FM 10 it's \f. Wildcards don't have to be on.

This is getting more interesting. \f does work in FrameMaker 7, but it only
finds some instances of the '.\f' combo I'm trying to find.

However - and it's a big 'however' - the source came from Word, and the
instances of '.\f' that FrameMaker *is* finding are those I've typed, but
not those that came from Word. My guess is that - for the Word-sourced
material - what looks like a period/end of flow on screen is something else,
and/or has some invisible Word-type-crud after the period but before the end
of the flow. And copying them from the document to the Find field doesn't
work either: copy/pasting the period alone works, but doesn't work when '\f'
is added to the find string.

Probably the best way to sort this is to de-table the lot, MIF-wash it and
re-table it all again, but it's Sunday...

So the bottom line is that '\f' is what I was looking for - the Word crud is
my problem. So double thanks ;-)

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Steve
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