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From: halberst@world.std.com (jerry halberstadt)
Subject: followup on mailmerge
Summary: Asking for program in .mif format
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:22:02 GMT

Probably due to my own clumsiness in unpacking; or a quirck of my
downloading software (I get my mail on a UNIX system that does not have
Frame and use Frame on a PC/Windows) I was unable to open the mailmerge
program provided by Thomas Bischoff. I would appreciate obtaining the
program/document either as ASCII if appropriatge or as a MIF file so it can
be transferred as text and opened as a FM document.

Thanks.

jerry

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POB 9183: c/o Mailboxes Etc.(#110)
955 Mass. Ave., Cambridge MA 02139 USA
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Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
From: emike@sdc.com (E. Mike Durbin)
Subject: Re: Frame 3.1x & Solaris 2.x (2.1)
Keywords: printing solaris
Organization: Systems Development Corporation
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:40:21 GMT

In article <asnyder.726776981@ernie> asnyder@artorg.hmc.psu.edu (Alan J. Snyder) writes:
>michael@hal.COM (Michael Coxe) writes:
>
>>This involves Sun Solaris 2.x & Frame 3.1x - junk now unless interested.
>>-------------
>>I have just installed Solaris 2.1 on my Sun Sparc and I can sucessfully
>>run Frame 3.1x in 4.x compatibility mode but cannot print. Understandable
>>since Solaris 2.x is SVR4 which uses the lp print mechanism. So I select
>>print to a file, which completes (rather a little too quickly) but the 
>>resulting file is in MIF format, not Postscript, which means the the 
>>postscript driver/filter puked with no error message.
>
>Look at $FMHOME/.fminitx.x/FMlpr.  This is the script that executes to
>send output to the printer.  You should be able to modify it. The only
>problem may be that FMARCH may be the same for both 4.x and Solaris
>2.1.
>--
>asnyder@ernie.artorg.hmc.psu.edu


No.  While maker3X.exe is dynamically linked, fmbatch and fmprintdriver.ps
is not.  So you will not be able to print.

The OL version has dynamically linked versions of all the executables
except fmMfont2bfont.

-- 
			E. Mike Durbin
Systems Development Corp.		Open Business Systems, Inc.
emike@sdc.com				emike@obs.com

Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
From: nvecchi@cscs.ch (Nicole Vecchi)
Subject: Books and spot colors
Followup-To: nvecchi@cscs.ch
Organization: Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico / CH-6928 Manno
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 11:04:50 GMT


I have a book file containing chapter files. In some of these chapter
files I make use of spot colors. But printing from the book window 
doesn't seem to allow me to make color separations--is it true that
I have to open each chapter file and print file-specific color separations?

Couldn't find any overlap in the documentation regarding spot colors and 
book files. Have I missed something?

Thanks!
Nicole
From: bsmart@bsmart.TTI.COM (Bob Smart)
Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
Subject: Batch printing failure detection
Date: 24 Dec 92 07:03:23 GMT
Reply-To: bsmart@bsmart.TTI.COM (Bob Smart)
Organization: Citicorp+TTI

I'm just starting to use the fmprint utility under SunOS and I've run
into a snag.  I use FrameMaker as an embedded part of another
application; when the application wants to print something, it spawns a
new task to run fmprint.  However, if fmprint doesn't work (not enough
memory, no licenses available, etc.) I don't get any feedback in the
form of a return code so the parent task has no way to know that the
attempt to print didn't work.

Does anyone know of a way to tell whether fmprint completes successfully?

---------

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facts of the case.

Some mailers apparently munge my address; you might have to use
bsmart@bsmart.tti.com -- or if that fails, fall back to
72027.3210@compuserve.com.  Ain't UNIX grand?
From: robertw@informix.com (Robert Weinberg)
Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
Subject: Re: Boxed text in Framemaker?
Date: 7 Jan 93 19:46:30 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc.

In article <1993Jan7.172943.14084@sfu.ca> Mike_Dustan@sfu.ca (Mike Dustan) writes:
>>Insert an anchored frame in the word Return, choosing Left Side of
Column or Right  
>>Side of Column for Anchoring Position. It's important to choose a
correct anchoring  
>>position.

etc.

> The problem pointed out earlier with this approach is that the frame
> doesn't move when the surrounding text is edited. Easy fix: anchor the
> frame to the insertion point, not the sides of the column. Works like a
> charm.

You missed the part of my instructions that said:

> Insert an anchored frame in the word Return, choosing Left Side of
> Column or Right          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Thus the anchored frame will move with the text. Still, the anchored frame must be  
set to Left Side or Right Side of Column in order to be properly positionable.
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+================================+================================+
From: michael@hal.COM (Michael Coxe)
Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
Subject: Frame 3.1x & Solaris 2.x (2.1)
Keywords: printing solaris
Date: 7 Jan 93 01:32:00 GMT
Organization: HAL Computer Systems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: akbar.hal.com

This involves Sun Solaris 2.x & Frame 3.1x - junk now unless interested.
-------------
I have just installed Solaris 2.1 on my Sun Sparc and I can sucessfully
run Frame 3.1x in 4.x compatibility mode but cannot print. Understandable
since Solaris 2.x is SVR4 which uses the lp print mechanism. So I select
print to a file, which completes (rather a little too quickly) but the 
resulting file is in MIF format, not Postscript, which means the the 
postscript driver/filter puked with no error message.

I called Frame support and we tried some stuff with no success.

Any clues??

I know that 3.1.1Solaris will be out "real soon now", but if I could just
get by until then (and I prefer not rsh'ing to a Sun 4.x machine and displaying
to my Solaris 2.1). 

Thanks,
-- 
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HaL Computer Systems Inc  | phone:   (408) 379-7000 x1046 
1315 Dell Avenue          | fax:     (408) 379-5022 
Campbell, CA 95008 USA    |
From: perrotta@pyrxbooter.eng.pyramid.com (Paul Perrotta)
Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
Subject: how to get permuted index?
Date: 7 Jan 93 18:08:33 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Pyramid Technology

We're looking at moving some of documentation from Documenter's
WorkBench (Doctools) to FrameMaker. Currently, we use Doctools to
create a permuted index of our man pages. (A permuted index is not the
same as a master index.)

Does anyone know of a way to use FrameMaker to produce the same thing?


-Paul


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Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
From: Mike Dustan <Mike_Dustan@sfu.ca>
Subject: Re: Help. Converting Word to Frame vice-versa.
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A771A48E7A012B30@opifex.ucs.sfu.ca>
X-Xxdate: Thu, 7 Jan 93 17:12:46 GMT
Organization: Simon Fraser University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d14
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:12:50 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.163332@iti.gov.sg> Outlander, hamdan@iti.gov.sg
writes:
>I have bought Filterpak from Frame. But the conversion from Mac Word4.0
to
>Frame3.1 using the filters provided is not satisfactory. Another thing
is the
>inability to convert from Frame to Word directly. Instead I have to
convert to
>WordPerfect and from there convert to Word.

It sounds as if you're crossing platforms from Mac to Sun or something
else that runs Frame 3.1 (latest version for the Mac is 3.01, I think).
Mac Frame imports Mac Word 4.0 quite well (well, it does what I need it
to do). If you must cross platforms, try saving the Word file as RTF and
use Frame's RTF filter. Or find someone with Mac Frame, import the Word
file on a Mac and then move the Frame file.

There's also an RTF export filter, for going the other way.

These Frame/RTF filters are a Frame product and as far as I know they're
free, but I don't know what steps we took to get them. If you need more
info, e-mail me (mike@sfu.ca) directly.

Mike Dustan, Computing Services, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
Canada
Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
From: tina@csi.on.ca (Tina Klein)
Subject: Frame help links conversion to Word hotlinks
Organization: Carp Systems International, Kanata, ON
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:38:46 GMT

Hi -
I would like to develop a hypertext help file in Frame.
Ultimately this file is destined for the MS help compiler.
I see that Word (for Windows) has its own set of links.
Does anyone know of a conversion utility that will preserve 
my help links when taking the Frame file to RTF format?
-- 
Tina Klein, Technical Writer           CAnet: tina@csi.on.ca
CSI, 600 Terry Fox Drive - Suite 200   Phone: (613) 592-5780
Kanata, Ontario, Canada K2L 4B6        Fax:   (613) 592-0584
From: gt4417a@prism.gatech.EDU (SKELTON,JOEL PHILLIP)
Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
Subject: Reading in/converting unix eqn files into Framemaker???
Keywords: eqn
Date: 7 Jan 93 21:13:00 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

Does anyone know how to translate unix eqn files into the Framemaker
math format? Either a frame trick or a pointer to an existing conversion
program will do.

jps
bf

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Joel Skelton   --    North Avenue Trade School, Dept. of Round Things
gt4417a@prism.gatech.edu   (ask for Scooter Technologies, and receive)
From: khubbard@ems.cdc.com (Kelvin Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
Subject: How to reset margins interactively
Keywords: margins
Date: 7 Jan 93 22:13:08 GMT
Reply-To: khubbard@ems.cdc.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of CDC

I have a general question that I am unable to find the answer to in the
manual.

How does a person reset the margins once editing has begun on a document?

Here is the situation.  I choose "NEW" from the framemaker popup menu.
FrameMaker then displays a window, asking me for the template I wish to use.
I select "Custom Document".  I am then given several options to set, such as
top-margin, left-margin, and so forth.  I then click "OK", and my brand
spanking new empty document is displayed for me.

So far so good.

After I type in the letter I am composing, I find that it consumes the entire
first page and 7 line on a second page.  So, I go through the usual changing
of the leading and clipping where I can, but I still can't get those last 2
lines on the first page.

What I would like to do is change the top and/or bottom margin to 1/2 inch
instead of the 1 inch it defaulted to originally.  It seems to me that it
must be possible.  It seems like such an elementary thing to do, but alas
I am too simple to figure it out.

Anyone have the answer?

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Active Software, Inc.           
C/O Empros Systems International            Phone: (612) 553-4560
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Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
From: mjlepper@mtu.edu (Matthew J. Lepper)
Subject: Re: UNIX-PC-UNIX Conversion - How?
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:39:00 GMT

harding@sun444.nas.nasa.gov (Steve Harding) writes:
>In article <1iv7u9INNj7u@fnnews.fnal.gov> dem@fnal.gov writes:
>>Here's what I do:
>>
>>1) format a 1.44 MB diskette on my PC
>>2) copy the FrameMaker file to it from my hard drive
>>3) put the diskette in my Sun SparcStation IPX
>>4) as root on the Sun type "mount -t /dev/fd0 /pcfs"
>>5) open the file as normal (filename looks like /pcfs/dos.doc)
>>6) save my work when finished to /pcfs directory
>>7) as root on the Sun type "umount /pcfs"
>>8) as root on the Sun type "eject"
>>9) take the disk bakc to my PC and start the cycle all over.
>
>Very clevor.  I will have to save this for my bag of tricks.
>
>One slight problem.  Many of us (especially in a controlled environment)
>don't have access to the root password.
>
>steve

Ask your friendly SysAdmin to install the mtools package (available via
anon ftp etc.)  This is a group of commands (such as mcopy, mdel, mformat
etc.) that allow sun users to read/write/format IBM-PC 3-1/2" floppies
on their machines.

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 Internet: mjlepper@mtu.edu       |  --some really witty guy whose
   BITNET: mjlepper@MTUS5.BITNET  |    name I can't remember
From: bisc@zellweger.ch (Thomas K. Bischoff)
Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
Subject: Re: HELP: Frustration using Tools in FrameMaker 3.1
Date: 5 Jan 93 11:08:41 GMT
Reply-To: bisc@zellweger.CH (Thomas K. Bischoff)
Organization: Zellweger Uster AG, Switzerland

In article <1993Jan4.115854.5637@newsroom.bsc.no> robmack@bsc.no (Robert MacKinnon) writes:
>Environment: FrameMaker v3.1, IBM RISC System/6000, AIX 3.2, Xwindows
>
>I would like to know if there is a X resource that can be set for FrameMaker
>to retain use of a selected tool off of the Tools menu.  I am very
>frustrated that, when I select a drawing tool (line, circle, box, etc.), the
>tool is immediately dropped after use and the Smart Selection tool is
>automatically re-selected.  I would like to retain selection of the drawing
>tool until I EXPLICITLY request another tool.
>--

Shift-select the drawing tool. that means hold down the shift key and press
the select button ( usually the left mouse button) over the desired tool.
Then the selection will be retained.
-- 
Thomas K. Bischoff    Net: bit@ten.ch,bisc@zellweger.ch 
***** Minds, like parachutes, only function when open.
Newsgroups: comp.text.frame,comp.windows.x.apps,comp.windows.x.motif
From: dboldt@dsdbqvarsa (David Boldt (x5679))
Subject: Re: cut/copy/paste directly between Motif apps and Framemaker?
Keywords: Motif, Framemaker, cut buffer
Organization: United States Geological Survey
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:56:10 GMT

In article <rfisel.726447462@aboy> rfisel@informix.com (Rick Fisel) writes:
>Framemaker for Motif, when running on a SUN sparc IPX, does not use the 
>standard X/Motif buffers for cut/copy/paste. Thus I can't cut from a text 
>editor (code) and paste into documentation I'm writing. Is there a way to
>configure either Framemaker or the X apps to use the same buffer (using 
>defaults at run-time)? Frame Tech Support has not been much help on this one. 

My experience with Frame and X-Windows has been that one can use the
standard X buffers, but that this does not keep any of the special
formatting (font, bolding, tags, etc..).  This is because the buffer
used by X-Windows is a text-only buffer.  Are you using a Sunview-style
copy and paste, or an X-Windows style copy and paste?
-- 
                           -- david boldt   dboldt@qvarsa.er.usgs.gov
                                            US Geological Survey
                                            Reston, VA    (703 648-5679)
Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
From: harding@sun444.nas.nasa.gov (Steve Harding)
Subject: Re: Is there an easy way to get a page count?
Keywords: FBC pagecount
Organization: NASA/Ames Research Center
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 17:28:49 GMT
Distribution: usa

In article <1993Jan8.185833.15597@meadow.uucp> nzr20@meadow.UUCP (Nicholas Russon) writes:
>We've got a large number of book files, each with several chapter
>files of varying length, all using folio-by-chapter numbering 
>(page 1-2 follows 1-1, Chapter two pages are numbered 2-1, 2-2, etc.).
>
>We need to get estimates on-the-fly for the page count for an arbitrary
>set of these books, in order to plan binder sizes, etc.
>
>We can figure out the manual method (open each file, check number of
>pages, add to running total), but we're hoping there's an easier way.
>
>Does anyone have a suggestion?

Seems to me, the obvious answer is to generate a table of contents and
total the pages.

steve
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Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
From: snd@atomic (Stefanos Damianakis)
Subject: Re: is frame hosted on a DEC Station?
Organization: Princeton University, Dept. of Computer Science
Date:  9 Jan 93 02:40:40 GMT

scott@shuksan (Scott Moody) writes:
>Is frame available for the DEC stations?

yup. use it all the time...

-stef

Newsgroups: comp.text.frame,cmu.cs.framemaker
From: cazander%serigate@phcoms.seri.philips.nl (Koos Cazander)
Subject: Re: Compiling a list of keyboard shortcuts
Followup-To: comp.text.frame,cmu.cs.framemaker
Originator: news@phcoms.seri.philips.nl
Organization: SERI-CEN Network Services, Philips C&P, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 11:20:17 GMT

Barbara Zayas (bjz@sei.cmu.edu) wrote:

: I've been using keyboard shortcuts for years and this one is
: new to me (it's a GREAT shortcut, incidentally).

: I've found that some of the keyboard shortcuts aren't
: mentioned in the FM documentation.  In an effort to have one,
: comprehensive listing of shortcuts ... if you have
: interesting keyboard shortcuts that aren't listed in the
: reference or users manuals, please send them to me.  I will
: pull all of these together into a file and place it in our
: anonymous ftp server if anyone's interested.

You can find them in the file $FMHOME/docs/QuickRef.doc

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Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
From: artc@world.std.com (Art Campbell)
Subject: Re: UNIX-PC-UNIX Conversion - How?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:58:06 GMT

In article <1iv3fvINNeui@male.EBay.Sun.COM> robert1@sabu.EBay.Sun.COM (Bob S.- Contractor) writes:
>I want to take my Frame files from Sun at work and work on them at home on Windows and  then take them back to the Sun platform. Frame says I have to buy a $300 program called Common-Link to convert the disks to the other format. I had always believed that this could be done within Frame. The manual is no help. If anyone out there is working from    UNIX to Windows and back, please let me know how you do it. Thanks
>
>Bob in San Jose
>.

It sounds like you and Frame are talking apples and oranges. FrameMaker files
can be opened on any platform. Files created on Suns can be opened on PCs,
Macs, or whatever, transparently (although the software will bitch if the
fonts are not what it expects). So, no problem.

However, you still have to get the files from one machine to the other.
It sounds as if you're trying to use floppies; The UNIX floppy format is
not compatible with DOS floppy format. If you're trying to write a DOS 
floppy on a Sun, you will need some sort of utility program to do it ..
. on my company's IBM AIX workstations, it's DOSWRITE. I don't know what
it would be on a Sun, but tech support seems to be feeding you some 
information. I'd check with your systems wrangler to see if you've already
got somehing that will work.

Another option would be a modem dial up link and kermit or xmodem, or 
whatever file transfer protocol you like best....

Art


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   DoD 358                                  _Real_ BMWs have just two wheels.
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     and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
From: Mike Dustan <Mike_Dustan@sfu.ca>
Subject: Re: HELP: Frustration using Tools in FrameMaker 3.1
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A771A751C8022B30@opifex.ucs.sfu.ca>
X-Xxdate: Thu, 7 Jan 93 17:24:33 GMT
Organization: Simon Fraser University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d14
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:24:36 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.115854.5637@newsroom.bsc.no> Robert MacKinnon,
robmack@bsc.no writes:
>I would like to know if there is a X resource that can be set for
FrameMaker
>to retain use of a selected tool off of the Tools menu.  I am very
>frustrated that, when I select a drawing tool (line, circle, box, etc.),
the
>tool is immediately dropped after use and the Smart Selection tool is
>automatically re-selected.  I would like to retain selection of the
drawing
>tool until I EXPLICITLY request another tool.

OK, all you X users now know to shift-click to avoid dropping tools. Mac
users who are reading this will be happy to know you can also
double-click a tool in order to get a good grip on it...

Mike Dustan, Computing Services, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
Canada
Newsgroups: comp.text.frame,cmu.cs.framemaker
From: bjz@sei.cmu.edu (Barbara Zayas)
Subject: Compiling a list of keyboard shortcuts
Organization: Software Eng. Inst.;Carnegie-Mellon U.; Pittsburgh, PA 15213   _USA_
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 11:10:53 EST


Amy McNulty writes:

>Do you know about the Ctrl-0 (that's zero) shortcut? When
>you type that keystroke sequence, the area in the very bottom
>right corner of the window starts echoing your
>keystrokes as you try to find an approximate match to the
>variable name. Once you've typed a couple of characters and
>have an initial match, you can also use the up and down arrows
>to move backwards and forwards through the alphabetized list
>of variable names.

I've been using keyboard shortcuts for years and this one is
new to me (it's a GREAT shortcut, incidentally).

I've found that some of the keyboard shortcuts aren't
mentioned in the FM documentation.  In an effort to have one,
comprehensive listing of shortcuts ... if you have
interesting keyboard shortcuts that aren't listed in the
reference or users manuals, please send them to me.  I will
pull all of these together into a file and place it in our
anonymous ftp server if anyone's interested.

Many thanks from me (and my damaged-from-overusing-the-mouse shoulder).




Barbara Zayas		              Software Engineering Institute
bjz@sei.cmu.edu			      Carnegie Mellon University
Newsgroups: comp.text.frame,cmu.cs.framemaker
From: artc@world.std.com (Art Campbell)
Subject: Re: Compiling a list of keyboard shortcuts
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:41:04 GMT

In article <1993Jan8.111053.2895@sei.cmu.edu> bjz@sei.cmu.edu (Barbara Zayas) writes:
....
>I've found that some of the keyboard shortcuts aren't
>mentioned in the FM documentation.  In an effort to have one,
>comprehensive listing of shortcuts ... if you have
>interesting keyboard shortcuts that aren't listed in the
>reference or users manuals, please send them to me.  I will
>pull all of these together into a file and place it in our
>anonymous ftp server if anyone's interested.
>
Uh, before you get too far into this great project.... don't forget
about the QuickRef.doc file in /Frame/docs that lists most of the
shortcuts (though not all -- like the ^0).... 

Most people can get most of the info from this quickly because it's
a densly-packed two-page cheat sheet.

Art

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   DoD 358                                  _Real_ BMWs have just two wheels.
    "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent 
     and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson