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Anonymous
May 1, 2010
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Several how-to questions...

  • May 1, 2010
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I'm looking for answers to the following questions with respect to Framemaker 9:

1) How do I get the Spell Checker to recognize words that abut dash ems and ellipsis?  Currently the Spell check flags such instances.

2) Is there no way to display POTENTIALLY misspelled words as Microsoft Word does with wiggly red underlines?

3) When hypenation is turned ON for a particular paragraph design, how does one keep the very last word on the page from hyphenating without affecting all of the other hyphenation within that paragraph?  I would have though Framemaker would know better than to split a word in the middle of a page break.

...this is an example of what I am talking about. Hyphen-

---------auto page break-----

ation is occuring across a page break!

4) Is there a way to make the text large in the Adobe Help Viewer window?  If one is working on a 26"+ LCD monitor, the default text in the Help viewer is so small one needs a magnifying glass to read it.

Thanks.

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    mandrill22
    mandrill22
    Inspiring
    May 4, 2010

    Re. item 3:

    From the User Guide

    "• To set the minimum number of widow lines and orphan lines—lines isolated at the top or bottom of a column—

    enter a value in the Widow/Orphan Lines text box. (To keep all lines of a paragraph in the same column, specify

    a large number, up to 100, for the Widow/Orphan Lines setting.)"

    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    May 3, 2010

    1. Try a thin-space between the words and the em-dash or ellipsis.

    2. Not with native FM. Try a third-party tool such as Asutype - http://www.asutype.com/

    3. Unfortunately, FM's not that typographically savvy. You'll have to manually find and fix such occurrences. This could be automated using a custom Framescript.

    4. IIRC, this is a browser function - "ctrl +" to enlarge in Firefox and Chrome.

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    Anonymous
    May 4, 2010

    >> Try a thin-space between the words and the em-dash or ellipsis.

    Thanks, but that really creates another problem, that is, when using FULL JUSTIFICATION the thin space and become a huge space.  I can't believe FM is so dumb that it doesn't know better than to flag the words left and right of a dash em as misspelled.

    >>  IIRC, this is a browser function - "ctrl +" to enlarge in Firefox and Chrome.

    I have no idea what you just said.  What is IIRC?  And what does FF and Chrome have to do with the sad Adobe Help viewer?

    Jeff_Coatsworth
    Community Expert
    Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 4, 2010

    IIRC = "If I recall/remember correctly"

    The Help in Adobe is in AIR format - I don't think there is much you can do to resize the font or views other than maximizing the window in which it appears.

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