[Framers] Font Size in Index Marker Pod (FRMAKER-2451)

[Frank Stearns]

On Mon, 20 Mar 2017, Rick Quatro wrote:

> IXgen is a very useful plugin for marker-intensive documents. I used it
> years ago and recommended it to several of my clients. My only complaint is
> that it takes the liberty of balancing square brackets when it puts the text
> back into the markers. This was a fatal problem for one of my clients that
> was trying to use IXgen with TimeSavers markers which sometimes use
> unbalanced open square brackets in its marker syntax (essentially,
> Postscript code). In my view, IXgen shouldn't make any changes to the marker
> text that you don't explicitly specify. But this is certainly an edge case,
> so if you are not using TimeSavers markers, this won't be a concern for you.

**IXGEN HAS BEEN UPDATED!!!!**

We've now included a "passthrough" marker-type option for such cases. 
(In many other situations, you do want -- and need -- brackets 
balanced.)

Hope that helps,

Frank Stearns Associates | makers of IXgen(tm) for FrameMaker(r)
*** IXGEN 7-10 for FrameMaker 10-15 HERE! ***
franks at fsatools.com  1-435-275-8981  fsatools.com


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> Subject: Re: [Framers] Font Size in Index Marker Pod (FRMAKER-2451)
>
> On Sun, 19 Mar 2017, Rick Quatro wrote:
>
>> The problem here is simply that the text size in the marker window is
>> too small. It would be nice to be able to configure the size and
>> possibly the font in windows like these where the user has to
>> type/edit text. On marker-intensive documents, I would probably choose
>> a larger, mono-spaced font for the marker window.
>
> snips
>
>> Hi
>>
>> In the last days there was some discussion about them index marker
>> text window.
>
> Another idea would be to use IXgen and bypass the limits (and sometimes
> miseries) of the marker window entirely.
>
> Most marker display and edit entities generated by IXgen rely on FrameMaker
> documents that we provide as templates. And, because the IXgen templates are
> plain old FM documents, you can modify those templates to use whatever font
> size and styles you'd like.
>
> For more information about IXgen please visit our site (in the sig block
> below).
>
> Frank Stearns Associates | makers of IXgen(tm) for FrameMaker(r)
> *** IXGEN 7-10 for FrameMaker 10-15 HERE! *** franks at fsatools.com
> 1-435-275-8981  www.fsatools.com
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