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Since my system is English the locale sort does not provide any benefit. sNamen = ['Käfer', 'côte', 'Bären', 'küssen', 'Kasimir','coté', 'analog', 'Ähnlich', 'Äpfel']; $.writeln (sNamen.sort()); $.writeln (sNamen.sort(function (a, b) { return a.localeCompare(b)})); Results in Bären,Kasimir,Käfer,analog,coté,côte,küssen,Ähnlich,Äpfel Bären,Kasimir,Käfer,analog,coté,côte,küssen,Ähnlich,Äpfel On a German or French system I expect a different order in t he second result lineCan someone with such a locale prlease test?And do you know how I should extend the sort function to get the uppercase and lowercase letters together: A, Ä, a, ä, B, b, C, c, ç, ... ?

So … I have a whole bookmap's worth of valid DITA files I've developed with XML Mind, and it seemed to me they would be a good starting point if I want to explore using structured FM for DITA.The first thing that hits me when I open any of these files in FM10 is that FM (naturally) applies its own page layouts and paragraph styles. Purely logical, since I haven't defined anything else. Keeping my fingers well away from ths structure, I use the familiar paragraph designer to update the styles FM has applied and soon have a pleasing combination of DITA structure and FM layout … until I save and re-open the document, and find all my formatting has been discarded.Deceptively simple – can of worms perched on tip of iceberg – question: what do I have to do to update the layout/styles? I realise there may be many more styles defined than elements used by my simple DITA files, and (even) that the inheritance we miss in unstructured FM may suddenly spring in to complicate matters in structured:

Hello.I'm handling a ditamap file with FDK.I would like to know the selected file name when I exceutes a context menu command at the ditamap pod.I added my code below. #define GET_FILE_NAME 1 VoidT F_ApiInitialize(IntT initialization){   F_ObjHandleT specialMenuId;/* Get the ID of the special menu. */specialMenuId = F_ApiGetNamedObject(FV_SessionId, FO_Menu, (ConStringT)"!DitamapContextMenu");/* Define the commands and add them to the Special menu. */F_ApiDefineAndAddCommand(GET_FILE_NAME , specialMenuId, (ConStringT)"GetFileName", (ConStringT)"Get File Name", (ConStringT)"");} VoidT F_ApiCommand(IntT command){  switch (command)  {    case GET_FILE_NAME :       F_ApiAlert((ConStringT)"The file name is...!", FF_ALERT_CONTINUE_NOTE);      // I want to get the selected file name here.    break;  };} Thanks. 

 ** My FrameMaker is a trial edition. When I clicked "Topic" in XML's tab, the message above popped up. Then pop up internal error and the FrameMaker goes off. What should I do for solving this problem?

I am using doc.Import to import a text file into FrameMaker. The text file is encoded in UTF-8. Is there a UTF-8 Constant for importing text files in FrameMaker? Here is my function: TTC_MB.importFile = function (filename, textLoc, doc) { var importProps, retProps, i; // Get default property list for importing documents. importProps = GetImportDefaultParams (); // Get a property list to return any error messages. retProps = new PropVals (); // Set specific import property values to import the document. i = GetPropIndex (importProps, Constants.FS_AlertUserAboutFailure); importProps[i].propVal.ival = false; i = GetPropIndex (importProps, Constants.FS_HowToImport); importProps[i].propVal.ival = Constants.FV_DoByCopy; // Attempt to import the document. doc.Import (textLoc, filename, importProps, retProps); };  

    Dear all,A crucial detail seems to be that the script to be run/debugged must be from the opened folder. Otherwise I get messages concerning missing/notfound targt although FM is open and the targt is addressed in the script by //@target framemakerFor scripts not needing the connection to FM the folder is not a requirement.My setup of launch.json: { "version": "0.2.0", "configurations": [ { "type": "extendscript-debug", "request": "launch", "name": "Run current file", "program": "${file}", "stopOnEntry": false } ] } FindingsWhen Debug is not active F11 switches the display to full screen. Obviously we are in a browser window and F11 triggers the kiosk mode ...It is not possible to step into the script with F10/F11 - this ... see above. To step into a script it is necessary to have at least one break point. From there on I can step with F10/11and continue with F5.I have not yet tested whether"stopOnEntry": true​would

I noticed that Esc f i o does not work in v2020. (Esc f i f does....) I hate using mouse-driven menus and want all of my memorized shortcut keys to work when I upgrade versions. Is there a workaround? Or do I have to wait for Adobe to create a patch? Does anyone know of any other shortcuts that don't work?

Hi community,I´m quite new to FM and so searching some beloved word features...I like to make styles based on other styles so that maintenance is easier - updates need less time.- In MS Word you have the possibility to set-up style templates hierarchical via the "based on" setting in the "designer" (German Formatvorlage basiert auf).When doing it clever, its quite effortless changing e.g. your base font type (if CD has to change) How do I manage that in FM, I have not found a similar option (my version is 2019)If this is not possible, wht?s the best practice? Any advice?  

I have created a bug report with Adobe (FRMAKER-9478 ) for this bug. I have copied the problem description from there for reference. When F_ApiGetTextForRange and F_ApiGetText return text containing mdash and ndash characters, with the flags FTI_String | FTI_TextObjId and encoding set to FrameRoman, they are returned as \x14 and \x13, instead of \xd1 and \xd0. If the flag is FTI_String, they are returned correctly as \xd1 and \xd0. The bug occurs with both 2019 and 2020, but not in 2017. The bug report lists workarounds, the use of UTF-8 encoding is the one I have implemented. Please note that other special characters may be affected and/or other FDK calls. I have verified the two mentioned above fail. I would appreciate it if you would vote for this rather bizarre bug to be fixed by Adobe. Thanks Jon.

Auf einen Laptop mit Windows 10 läuft seit mehreren Monaten eine aktivierte Version von Framemaker 11. Seit einigen Tage verlangt Framemaker nun beim Start nach der Seriennummer und wenn man die - gültige und bereit seit Monaten auf diesem Rechner genutzte - Seriennummer eingibt erfolgt die Rückmeldung, dass diese Seriennummer bereits auf zwei anderen Rechnern aktiviert sei, was definitiv nicht der Fall ist.Hat jemand eine Idee?Vielen Dank schon einmal für Eure Hilfe.HeinerB887

1. <title>2. <table>3. <note>4. <p>5. <note>6. <p>  For your information: Portrait, Korean langauge, Korean font, FM 2019 This is a rotated table. No.3 and No.5 warning (admonishment) text is rotated properly. But, texts in No.4 and No.6 paragraph under No.3 and No.5 warning element are not rotated properly. Can you give a little hint how to solve this problem (Korean texts in paragraph under <note> element are not rotated properly)? For your information, when I see this page in FM, all texts are rotated well. But, after publishing in PDF, a text rotation issue occurred in PDF file.

As you can see the above image, a period mark moves to the next line.Can you give a hint how to solve this problem (hanging punctuation mark: period, comma, closing parenthesis)? For your information: Korean language, Korean font, FM 2019

Using FrameMaker 2019. When I try to paste a Unicode symbol, such as ∧ (U+2227) using Character Map, it shows up in FM as a ? character. I've tried a number of different fonts in FM with no luck. The same font in Word or a web browser looks correct. I don't think the font selection is the problem. Is this a bug? I tried Paste Special and each option available (Rich Text, Text, and Unicode Text). How can I insert such a character and have it display correctly? Is there a shortcut to type this in directly? I tried using the built-in Insert > Character > Character Palette but there must be a bug: it just disappears after a second or two. One thing that seems to work, but is not practical, is to paste into MS Word, copy it in Word, switch to FM and use Paste Special > Rich Text Format. 

I somehow messed up my "Settings File" in Publish. Is there any way to get back to the "Default Settings" without reinstalling FrameMaker 2019?

Hi,   Does anyone know: Is it possible to set the same zoom percentage for all files in a book with  a single command or shortcut? When the book window is active, I can only change the zoom of the list of files. I did not find anything in the FrameMaker help.   Best regards   Winfried

If my company has an Excel spreadsheet of all of our part numbers (we are a manufacturing company) is there a way to automate a parts list and have the output end up in a FrameMaker table?  Thanks

Hello,two books that published to PDF just fine until 2 months ago suddenly cannot be published anymore. I receive the error that the TPS file could not be found and thus the distiller stops. I am completely stumped, nothing obvious to me changed in this time. I use Windows 10 and FM 13.0.1.385When I use the printing option and Adobe PDF as printer, I get a PDF but without images (grey boxes instead).Is anyone else having this issue? Perhaps a recent Windows update?Robert

Hi supercalifragilisticexpialidocious FrameMaker experts, we have a company font. The problem is, that this font does not cover all chars that we need to display. We have issues in greek and in almost all Asian languages. I see the following options I don't like any of them. Do you have a preference or a better idea? A) We crack all the fonts and create a new global-font and merge in all the glyphs. This is technically probably even the most simple solution, but this is illegal, so we cannot do that.B) We create language specific paragraph formats like "Heading" (for western language), "EL Heading" for Greek, "VI Heading" for Vietnamese and so forth. This would work, but would incredibly blow up the amount of formats that we have. This is a nightmare to maintain, as we also have different templates in different paper sizes and so forth.C) We create language specific templates. This is basically B) with the benefit that the technical author does not recognize, t

Is there a backslash notation?This question would only apply to FM8 or later.I only have FM9 to try things on.When using special (non-keyboard) characters in the Unicode age, it is often the case that one discovers the needed glyph on some Unicode web site, and is then armed with the code point, but not necessarily a glyph that can be copied and pasted.Unicode-aware versions of FM include an unpleasant little Character Map, and there is also, on Windows, the system Character Map (which allows entry of code point numbers, or search by formal Unicode glyph id).Yes, there is also a way, on Windows, of entering Alt+21CC code points, but this requires a Registry hack and a reboot.It appears that the only way to enter Unicode characters in Frame is:via the FM Cmap,pasting from the OS Cmap or some other source, orusing the numpad Alt hack.If creating a Variable for a special character (commonly needed because a Unicode or more fully populated Unicode font is required), it has to be Cmap'd, Al

I use the HTML attribute<tag … title="text_to_appear" …frequently in any HTML I author by hand (or where a forum tool menu provides a field, as this one does). In most browsers, it causes a tooltip popup to appear showing the text_to_appear (aka hovertip). Example: This link loops back to this thread. I was lately wondering if FM can generate that for cross-references and other hypertext, to it's various output workflows, in particular PDF. It appears that the answer presently is: no, and no. Apparent No#1:Unstructured FM's insert-Xref dialog has no fields for anything but target ID and format. The inset-hypertext has no fields for anything but command ID and target address. There are fields for some other object types, like hotspots in images. Apparent No#2:Even if FM could routinely support 'title' in hypertext (which would likely be useful for HTML/XML workflow), it appears that PDF has no standard construct for it (perhaps because Postscript didn't either). When people ask for P

I have searched the Internet back and forth and can not get a quotation of the annual or monthly subscription for FrameMaker 2020.I can not go the standard way any more, because I have already purchased a subscription.Hitting the button By under Single User on https://www.adobe.com/de/products/framemaker/buying-guide.html the displayed page is immediately overlaid by a sign "You have already purchased". Closing this is only possible to reach other products - no more FM...IMHO this is ridiculous.I want to put the figure in USD and EUR on the page concerning the FM history (www.daube.ch/docu/fmhist12.html)

Hello everyone! I have a formatting question, and I hope someone is able to help. Please let me know if you have any clarifying questions. I am working on a new document type for my company. In this document, we have a two-column page set up, and are using a two-column table as well. However, we noticed that the table in column one is starting a milimeter or so below the table start in column two, which is creating a formatting offset. (See attached.) Our table anchor is sitting on the line above the table, in column one, which is pushing this table lower on the page. When I attempt to move the anchor to sit against the document title, it pushes the table out of our two-column format and into a single column while also pushing the table onto the second page of the document, leaving the first page blank. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to move the anchor to 1) remove the table offset and 2) preserve our two-column table?  Thank you!

Today I received a mif file from a customer. She got it back from translation to french. This mif file contains aphostrophs (French people seem to love it because they use it so often.) 😉 When opening this 2019 mif file with FM2019(15.0.7.973), the part of the sentence after an apostroph was cut off. Opening with FM2020 or FM 2017 everything is fine.Investigations have shown that in the mif file the correponding part is something like this: <String `L\qéquipement de mesure sert à mesurer........ \q is an apostrophe (hex x27 / decimal 039)after every \q text vanishes. Has anybody seen this behaviour or has anybody a workaraound for this problem? tiaKlaushttps://tracker.adobe.com/#/view/FRMAKER-9470

I have a bunch of documents done in DITA and FrameMaker 2020 and I have huge amounts of trouble making spellcheck and hyphenation work.1: discretionary hyphens seems to work exactly opposite of their intention. Rather than help hyphenate words, they make them prevent hyphenation2: creating personal dictionaries does not seem to work. It is impossible to create a personal dictionary in a self-chosen location and have it work.3: Adjusting hypenation on single words and making FrameMaker "Learn" does not seem to work either.I may be missing something absolutely fundamental here,  because these features are quite frustrating. Can anybody help?

I'd like to create paragraph markers via ExtendScript for heading paragraphs without existing markers, and wonder how to set a correct MarkerText property of a marker. When a cross-reference to a Heading is created manually in FrameMaker, it seems FrameMaker creates a new marker wih the MarkerText property set according to the following format:<magicNumber>: <pgfFormatName>: <pgfNumber> <somePgfText> where<pgfFormatName> is the name of the paragraph format (e.g., pgf.Name)<pgfNumber> is the paragraph number (e.g., pgf.PgfNumber)<somePgfText> is initial text from the paragraph (pgf.getText item[s])<magicNumber> is a 5-digit decimal numberExample:69752: H2,1.1: 1.1 Example text of a level 2 heading The <magicNumber> element (69752 in the example) is what I don't understand. It seems to be unique within a document (maybe even unique within a book), and I assume it matters for keeping cross-references consistent (e.g., when he