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Oct 25, 2019 11:54 AM UTC
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Reuse mif files

Hi there

 

Is there a way to reuse a mif file from other mif? I have a book with conditional texts and a lot of variables that I assign via mif files. The issue is that mif files also have some common styles defined in them (paragraph, tables, colors, characters etc.) and I want to store this common stuff in a external mif and call it via "import common.mif" or something like that.

 

Is there any support to do this directly in mif format?

 

Thanks a lot for your time

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    Community Expert
    Oct 25, 2019 1:07 PM UTC

    Hi,

     

    Yes. You can also store other information in your MIF snippets such as paragraph formats or table formats. Just copy the relevant section from a MIF file.

    Do you know MIFBrowse from Graham Wideman?

    http://www.grahamwideman.com/gw/tech/framemaker/mifbrowse.htm 

    This helps to examine MIF files.

     

    Best regards

     

    Winfried

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    Community Expert
    Oct 25, 2019 12:00 PM UTC

    Hi,

     

    You had asked for these MIF snippets some months ago. Do they not work?

    https://community.adobe.com/t5/FrameMaker/Snippet-with-no-US-character/m-p/10407473 

     

    Best regards

     

    Winfried

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    Known Participant
    Oct 25, 2019 12:53 PM UTC

    Yes they work very well but this is a different case. Those snippets only have variable definitions but these ones have more informacion that I want to move to a unique snippet because these definitions are common to all snippets.

     

    Best regards

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