add check-boxes to every instruction in procedures in the installation manual

Question

We are required to add check-boxes to every instruction in our procedures in the installation manual. While we have found a way to add the check-box to the heading style in FrameMaker, we need a script to implement this change throughout the manual. Please share any script that can be used to automate this process. Thanks.

Bob_Niland · Answer

A common way to do this is to make the checkbox an automatic part of the Paragraph Format for the affected paragraphs.

In FM8 or later, with a suitably populated Unicode font, paragraph format "Step" might have an Autonumber format of:

[\u274f\ ]

which suffices for checkbox only. If you need a step number as well, that might be:

~~where:~~

~~S is an arbitrary Series Label for steps.~~

~~\ (backslash space) is a non-breaking space~~

~~\u274f is the Unicode character U+274F LOWER RIGHT DROP-SHADOWED WHITE SQUARE~~

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