[Framers] FrameMaker keyboard shortcuts just stop

[Peter Gold]

So, the ancient recollection of something eating keystrokes was generically
on the right troubleshooting path. Hooray!

As to other old memories:

FullWrite Professional (a promising feature-filled Mac word processor) had
the fantastic ability to randomly animate bullet points, so, there was no
reason to get bored while staring at pages of pithy tech content on screen.
You could just watch and wait for one or more of them to hop around.

Then, there was the post claiming that "lorem ipsum" placeholder text
wasn't randomly-generated, but was arguably written by indentured scribes,
forerunners of technical writers, because the translation was something
like "we love to write and beat ourselves with sticks."

Cheers!

On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Ken Poshedly <poshedly at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> So all-in-all, it's just Adobe emulating Microsoft.
> (What does he mean by that?) Back in 2006 while I was contracting for an
> engineering firm and ordered to use only Word "so the engineers could
> correct my work." (Ptooey!) I remember an incident where I used Word's
> paragraph tag-method to tag bulleted text.
> I was on page 125 or so, tagged something bullet and voila!, every bullet
> in the book disappeared, yet all "bulleted text" was still tagged that way.
> I tried everything I knew to fix things but to no avail.
> But, ah, thank heavens for Ctrl-Z. Everything returned, except for the
> last bullet that I worked on. I don't remember how I "fixed" things that
> day, but I did post a message on the tech-wrl e-mail list, asking how could
> Microsoft let this happen.
> The reply / replies were basically, "Because Microsoft CAN (let this
> happen) because it doesn't matter to them since we're just peons."
>
>
>     On Tuesday, May 2, 2017 4:21 PM, Robert Lauriston <
> robert at lauriston.com> wrote:
>
>
>  It's an artifact of the nonstandard, buggy UI Adobe layered on top of
> the legacy FrameMaker code in FM9. The API or whatever that transmits
> the keystrokes from the new layer to the legacy code occasionally
> stops working.
>
> I've never seen similar behavior in any other application on the
> half-dozen systems where I've run FM9 or later. I never used anything
> but a generic keyboard with the default driver.
>
> On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Peter Gold <peter at petergold.photography>
> wrote:
> > Just a couple of wild thoughts pulled from long-ago experiences:
> >
> > It sounds as if the normal flow of keystrokes is being affected somehow.
> >
> > In the hardware domain, is it possible that there are keyboard driver
> > issues - updates needed, multiple conflicting keyboards or other input
> > devices, multiple display screens and associated drivers? Less exotic, is
> > it possible that the usual physical keyboard itself has intermittent keys
> > or connections? If it's wireless, does connecting it with a cable fix the
> > issue? Charging or replacing its battery? Does the problem persist when
> > substituting a different keyboard?
> >
> > In the software domain, are there utilities running in background, like
> > font managers, display customizers, or screen-capture demons?
> >
> > System domain: Does varying the settings for keyboard repeat speed and
> > other adjustments affect the problem? What about
> trackpad/touchpad/graphics
> > tablet sensitivity settings?
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