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techwriter12345er
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March 12, 2013
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Conversion errors due to style names

  • March 12, 2013
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I have a legacy document with style names such as -  Heading [Level1], which is tripping up conversion. Is there anyway I can make FrameMaker see these as style name, and not try and interpret them as syntax?

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Arnis Gubins
Arnis Gubins
Inspiring
March 13, 2013

What exactly is the conversion issue? You can always just globally rename these styles using the Paragraph Designer and click on the Update All button.

Also, I don't understand what you mean having FM see them as styles rather than trying to interpret them as syntax. FWIW, "Heading [Level1]" works perfectly well as paragrpah style within FM.

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Russ Ward
Legend
March 13, 2013

Arnis,

I think that techwriter may be referring to the conversion table syntax which uses brackets to denote context labels. I wouldn't have thought that this would be misinterpreted by the structure generator, but maybe so.

Techwriter, are you using the P: prefix in front of all your format names?

If the problem cannot be avoided, the renaming of formats seems like the best bet. You could do that very quickly and easily with ExtendScript.

Russ

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techwriter12345erAuthor
Participant
March 13, 2013

Hello Russ.   That's correct.

I considered renaming all the styles, and thought this might be a little time consuming. Instead, I put a back slash in front of each of the angled brackets that occurred in the conversion table.  Worked a treat.  The conversion tables now work without tripping up on them. 

Cheers.

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