[Closed] FrameMaker 7.x/8 Feature Requests

1. An updated interface more like that of Adobe Photoshop.
2. More consistency across interface windows like Conditional Text, Paragraph Style, Character Style.
3. Ability to natively output more formats.
4. Allow structured framemaker to become a generalized XML/RDF-based document management tool.
5. Consider an extension or separate product like Microsoft Sharepoint for publishing to online CMSs.
6. Enhanced drawing tools.
7. UNIX/X-Windows support for multiple platforms.

Great product. It should live on into the 22nd century and is well-poised to handle the "new era" of structure-based documentation.

A way to lock the book files from geeting re-arranged. Simple request but you can't believe what it happens more than once when you keep FrameMaker files open on a server that is updated or files pushed.

Not sure what you are wanting to do but here are two methods for using text in place of a volume number (I do not recommend the second option):
 

OPTION #1

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2. On the menu bar, click Format, point to Document, and then click Numbering.
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4. Click the Volume tab.
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6. In the Format drop-down box, click TEXT.
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8. In the Volume box, type the text you want to use.
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10. Click Set.
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OPTION #2

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2. On the menu bar, click View, and then click Master Pages.
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4. Place your cursor in the header or footer text box.
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6. On the menu bar, click Special, and then click Variable.
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8. In the Variables dialog box, click to select the Volume Number variable, and then click Edit Definition.
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10. In the Definition box, replace <$volnum> with whatever text you want to use
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12. Click Edit.
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14. Click Done.
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I'm not sure how to do that. How does one "set the <$volnum> to use text instead of the numbers"? Is it possible to edit a building block?

Jim

> Multiple views (windows) of the same document would be nice to.

Yes, it would! This is very high on my personal list of requests.

Cheers, Rebecca

Just to add to Mike's comment regarding Crimson that for my serious text editing I like the open source editor jEdit: http://www.jedit.org/

Don't forget to check out jEdit's many plug-in extensions...

Cheers & hope this helps,
Riley

Hey Peter,

Those are tiresome hacks. I use Crimson Editor for all of my text editing. It has a bookmark feature that I use extensively when editing comments in code. Press F2 to cycle through the list very fast and efficiently. I turn on the bookmark for a few iterations, and then off when done. But thanks for the suggestion!

-- Mike

(Has it really been 20 years now? Woof!)

Hi, Mike:

Have you tried:

* creating a user-defined variable, inserting it as a place-marker, and searching for the first one, then searching for the next with the Find Again key?

* creating and inserting a user-defined marker and generating a list of markers with hypertext links, then tiling the marker list and document windows and using Ctrl+Alt)Click on the hyperlinks to navigate?

HTH
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Peter Gold
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I would like a bookmark feature that would allow me to tag a couple of places in a document, and then using a key-stroke, quickly jump to the next marker in the flow. This is for editing when you have to work on multiple places of a document and need to switch back and forth.

Multiple views (windows) of the same document would be nice to.

I agree fully with you idea. I would like to see that as well. I work with documents that require various symbols and there is not an easy way to insert what I need.

Dave