[Framers] weird bug - Variable at start of paragraph sometimes vanishes

[John Sgammato]

Thanks Tammy,
That didn't work. There's a lot going on in this doc - I think it will be
faster to just push through the 700pp and fix it manually rather than waste
a lot of time on a fix that may not exist.

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 3:25 PM <tammyvb at spectrumwritingllc.com> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> Weird indeed, but what is even weirder is that I encountered this problem
> myself a couple of months ago when I was using ePub to convert my FM source
> to HTML5. It was one flippin' variable out of many that I  had in the
> source
> files and it also involved conditional text. I know this is really, really
> pulling at straws, but a couple of plug-ins that I was using and therefore,
> affecting the Framemaker FDK, appeared to be the issue. (It was a
> head-banging, feet-stomping, gut-wailing  investigation), but this was what
> appeared to work:
>
> The solution is to open each FM document that is generating with missing
> variables and do the following:
> - From the 'Show/Hide Conditional Text' tab, select the 'Show All' radio
> button (make sure to have the show condition indicators selected) and then
> select 'Apply'.
> - confirm that the conditional text settings are as expected and where
> there
> are problems fix.
> -  From the 'Show/Hide Conditional Text' tab, select the 'Show As Per
> Condition" radio button (make sure to have the show condition indicators
> deselected), set the conditions accordingly, and then select 'Apply'. Do
> this for both conditons.
> - Save the FrameMaker file.
>
> All my FrameMaker files were stable after that.
>
> And short of assuming that I somehow had pleased the previously pissed-off
> FrameMaker gods, I have no other explanation as to why this worked (I had
> my
> rationale for it at the time), but it did.
>
> I feel your pain.
>
> TVB
>
>
> Tammy Van Boening
> Tammy dot vanboening at spectrumwritingllc dot com
> www.spectrumwritingllc.com
>
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> Subject: [Framers] weird bug - Variable at start of paragraph sometimes
> vanishes
>
> I've never seen this before; it looks like a bug.
> FM2015, unstructured.
> I have a big book with many variables and some conditions. In many (but not
> all) cases, a variable that starts a paragraph is present but invisible.
> Specifically,
> *Note: AGM only.*
> AGM is the variable. In some places I see *Note AGM only.* and in many
> places I see *Note  only.* The latter still have the variable marker in
> place and selectable, and when I select it, the invisible marker is still
> assigned to the variable with the value AGM.
> If I replace the variable, then it appears and it seems to stay, but I
> don't
> know why it vanished in the first place, how to reproduce it, or how to
> make
> it never happen again.
> A clue: The doc originally had many many AGM only notes as text. Then we
> started rebranding the product while keeping our own name as well,
> publishing "blue" and "orange" versions of the doc. For the orange version,
> the variable = AGM, and for the blue doc it's IVGM. To set the variable
> throughout the doc, I replaced the text AGM with the variable, then copied
> the variable and did a Find/Replace By Pasting (not a text Find/Replace).
> That got the variable into place everywhere. I am not sure that's a factor,
> because I think there are too many notes that still show the variable to
> account for them all having been manual operations (and thus the bu came
> from the automated F/R step).
> Has anyone seen this?
> Is there any solution other than manually replacing each invisible
> variable?
>
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