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From: halberst@world.std.com (jerry halberstadt)
Subject: Re: How to reset margins interactively
Keywords: margins
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 04:44:24 GMT

To change the margins you can change the text frame. In the Page Menu
select Master, find the appropriate master page. Pull down the tools bar,
select the pointer. Click on the dottet line representing the text frame.
Square blocks will appear at the corners and in the middle of the lines.
Approach one of the middle-of-the-line blocks with your cursor. It will
change shape. Drag the block to change the size of the text frame. When you
are satisfied, go back to the text page, and if necessary go to Page:Column
Layout and apply the new master page to the text page. Voila.

Hope this helps. Jerry. 

khubbard@ems.cdc.com (Kelvin Hubbard) writes:

>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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>C/O Empros Systems International            Phone: (612) 553-4560
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Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
From: gayleg@ejv.com (Gayle Gustafson)
Subject: eps filter
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 13:53:16 EST
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Hello Frame Users,

I have an .EPSF file that I would like to
import into a Frame document (it was created
with the 'xfig' tool. 

However, the X version of Frame only accepts
.EPSI formats and Frame does not provide this
as part of their package (even though they get
many requests for this). So I am asking--are
there any third-party vendors out there who may
have a filter to convert this to .EPSI format?
Hopefully, it's not too expensive as well. Maybe
I can ftp a public domain filter??

Any responses are greatly appreciated.

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Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
From: harding@sun444.nas.nasa.gov (Steve Harding)
Subject: Re: UNIX-PC-UNIX Conversion - How?
Organization: NASA/Ames Research Center
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 20:58:58 GMT

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
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From: charly@hal.COM (Charly Rhoades)
Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
Subject: Using "maker -fi" to Start and Iconify a Book?
Date: 6 Jan 93 23:10:17 GMT
Organization: HaL Computer Systems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: renoir.hal.com

I can successfully use "maker -fi" to start FM and open a 
specified FM *document* as an icon, but the same does not
work when I try to open a FM *book*.  FM and the book both
open, but the book is not iconified.

Is this a known limitation, or am I doing something wrong?
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Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
From: susan@phx.mcd.mot.com (Susan Brockett)
Subject: Book Building
Keywords: autonumber, books 
Organization: Motorola Computer Group, Tempe, Az.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:22:11 GMT

Fellow Framers,

I have one document that is referenced by two book files.
The file has an autonumber set to number the section.
When I generate the first book the autonumber works fine. 
However when I generate the second book, it resets the 
autonumber to zero.

I have checked the obvious things, 
	1. The Autonumber sequence tag (the same)
	2. The flow tags and autoconnect (the same and on)
	3. Continue paragaraph numbering in the book files and 
	   the individual documents

What have I missed? Why does FrameMaker reset the autonumber 
when I generate the second book? It's not that it goes to zero, but
that it resets it at all. 

Any help is appreciated. Please e-mail your responses, and 
I'll post the results.

Thanks


Susan Brockett
Motorola, Inc
Tempe, AZ
Technical Publications
susan@phx.mcd.mot.com

Newsgroups: cmu.cs.framemaker,comp.text.frame
From: bjz@sei.cmu.edu (Barbara Zayas)
Subject: Keeping a macro going
Organization: Software Eng. Inst.;Carnegie-Mellon U.; Pittsburgh, PA 15213   _USA_
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 11:49:24 EST


Running 3.1X on a sparc.

I've defined a macro to do a bunch of low-level (but tedious)
stuff.  The problem is that the macro stops if I move to
another window (regardless of whether it's a FrameMaker or
not...)

Is there a way to enable FM to continue the macro
uninterrupted or am I just doing something incorrectly at
present?

I don't have click-to-focus, incidentally.

Thanks for any help.
Barbara




Barbara Zayas		              Software Engineering Institute
bjz@sei.cmu.edu			      Carnegie Mellon University
Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
From: paulk@brt.com (Paul Kennedy)
Subject: Creating Unix man Pages with Frame
Organization: Berkeley Research and Trading
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:56:17 GMT


Has anyone out there created a filter and a set of formats that would
allow one to create a man page with FrameMaker and then export it
to a text file compatible with the Unix man utility?

This seems retrograde but there a couple of people at my site that
are so used to Frame that they don't feel comfortable with [nt]roff.
Nonetheless they'd still like to create man pages compatible with
the current man system.

Thanks in advance.

Paul Kennedy
Berkeley Research and Trading

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I am just a modern guy.

Xref: sparky comp.text.frame:3910 comp.windows.x.apps:1777 comp.windows.x.motif:8521
From: bobhays@spss.com (Bob Hays)
Newsgroups: comp.text.frame,comp.windows.x.apps,comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: cut/copy/paste directly between Motif apps and Framemaker?
Keywords: Motif, Framemaker, cut buffer
Date: 12 Jan 93 19:24:42 GMT
Organization: SPSS, Inc.

In article <1993Jan12.185610.25855@rsg1.er.usgs.gov>, dboldt@dsdbqvarsa (David Boldt (x5679)) writes:
> 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?

My experience (on AIX V. 3.2.2) is that you can use the primary
selection (which is normally mapped to the second mouse button in
OSF/Motif) to "paste" information into FrameMaker or from FrameMaker
into other applications, but that you cannot access the OSF/Motif
Clipboard from FrameMaker - it seems that Cut/Copy/Paste does not use
the OSF/Motif clipboard but instead internal-only storage.

Note that the clipboard can contain any data you want.  The primary
selection however is text-limited.

Have fun! - Bob

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Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
From: kalt@nmsu.edu (Kerry Alt)
Subject: using Framemaker to create glyphs..
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
Distribution: comp.text.frame
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:20:10 GMT

I've heard rumors to the effect that Framemaker can be used to cread
incon, glyphs, etc. that can be used in Openwin applications. In
particular, I'd like to import the math symbols for um and other units
into an application. So I need to get bitmaps. Has anyone out there
done this?

Thanks,

Kerry

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From: jbk@world.std.com (Jeffrey B Kane)
Subject: Re: Frame no-show at MacWorld Expo
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:28:33 GMT

phoffman@orac.holonet.net (Paul E. Hoffman) writes:

>Does anyone know why Frame didn't have a booth at the MacWorld Expo
>this year? They were jammed last year.

Paul,
  I don't know what their marketing commitment is to the Mac platform.
We will see what is what.  Their promotional competative upgrade was
extended by MacWarehouse until the end of the month, but I'm not sure
if they (MacWarehouse) are simply clearing their inventory.

              Jeffrey

Newsgroups: comp.text.frame,cmu.cs.framemaker
From: bjz@sei.cmu.edu (Barbara Zayas)
Subject: Re: Compiling a list of keyboard shortcuts
Organization: Software Eng. Inst.;Carnegie-Mellon U.; Pittsburgh, PA 15213   _USA_
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:54:44 EST


In article <1993Jan11.112017.2946@phcomgw.seri.philips.nl>, cazander%serigate@phcoms.seri.philips.nl (Koos Cazander) writes:
|> 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

The file is present, yes, but unless I missed it, the CTRL-0
(zero) option isn't listed there.  

This makes me wonder just how many undocumented keyboard
commands exist...

If you've got keyboard shortcuts **THAT ARE NOT LISTED IN THE
FM DOCUMENTATION** send them to me.

Thanks.
Barbara







Software Engineering Institute		bjz@sei.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon University
From: jameison@orion.sybase.com (Jameison Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
Subject: Re: HELP: Frustration using Tools in FrameMaker 3.1
Date: 6 Jan 93 17:57:11 GMT
Reply-To: user@machine.domain
Organization: UC Berkeley XRN Design Team

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.
|> --
|> Robert MacKinnon,    UNIX Support | Internet/Email: robmack@bsc.no
|> Bergen Environmental Sciences and | 		    robmack at nobscvm
|> Solution Centre,  Bergen,  NORWAY | Phone:          +47-5-544618
|> ******************************************************************
|> *  All typographical errors in the above document are not errors *
|> *     They merely illustrate new ways of spelling those words    *
|> ******************************************************************

If you use <shift>button when you select a drawing tool from
the tools window the tool will be retained until you select
another tool.

	Jamie
Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
From: lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam)
Subject: Saving a "preferred" setup for startup?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:15:06 GMT

I have frame 3.1 will be receiving the 3.1.1(?) soon, but is there any way to
save a preferred setup.  I always want to startup with a full page display
which is maxed out for the screen size.  Also some stuff like having the tools
saved in a place.

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance.

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From: connolly@convex.com (Dan Connolly)
Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
Subject: Re: Creating Unix man Pages with Frame
Date: 12 Jan 93 23:55:40 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In article <1993Jan11.235617.28049@brt.com> paulk@brt.com (Paul Kennedy) writes:
>
>Has anyone out there created a filter and a set of formats that would
>allow one to create a man page with FrameMaker and then export it
>to a text file compatible with the Unix man utility?

Yes. It's pretty simple-minded, but it worked for our purposes.
It's written in lisp, for use with the freely distributable XLISP
interpreter.

[Unfortunately, it's based on a MIF->LISP perl script too. I have
since figured out how to read MIF straight into LISP without the perl
tool, but I haven't put those smarts in the mif2man filter.]

The troff it produces is kinda ugly: you woudln't want to edit
it by hand, and it doesn't utilize the -man macros fully, but
it displays and prints right.


Let me know if this is good enough for what you want to do, and I'll
try to clean it up and post it.

Here's a sample of the output:

.\" Example
.PF l 1i 1.25i 0i
.ta 0.25i
\fR\&\s10\&metrics project7.met

.\" Body
.PF l 0.75i 0.75i 0i
.ta 0i 0.75i
\fR\&\s10\&The above example invokes the CXmetrics graphical user interface for 
viewing the metrics data contained in the file project7.met. For more 
information about the graphical user interface, refer to the CONVEX 
CXmetrics UserUs Guide.

.SH SEE ALSO
.\" Body
.PF l 0.75i 0.75i 0i
.ta 0i 0.75i
\fR\&\s10\&\fR\&\s10\&metrics(5)\fR\&\s10\&
Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
From: kate@medtronic.COM (Kate Seastone,MS-10,9295344,)
Subject: Re: HELP: Frustration using Tools in FrameMaker
Reply-To: kate@medtronic.COM
Organization: Medtronic, Inc.
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:21:25 GMT

In article 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.
>--

****
In order to maintain selection of a graphics tool, hold the shift key down
while making your tool selection with the mouse.  It will stay selected until
you choose another.


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Medtronic/Micro-Rel				"Toward Man's Full Life"
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Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
From: asnyder@artorg.hmc.psu.edu (Alan J. Snyder)
Subject: Re: Frame 3.1x & Solaris 2.x (2.1)
Keywords: printing solaris
Organization: Penn State Center for Academic Computing
Date: 11 Jan 93 18:29:41 GMT

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.
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Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
From: phoffman@orac.holonet.net (Paul E. Hoffman)
Subject: Frame no-show at MacWorld Expo
Organization: HoloNet National Internet Access BBS: 510-704-1058/modem
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 01:26:39 GMT

Does anyone know why Frame didn't have a booth at the MacWorld Expo
this year? They were jammed last year.

>>Paul Hoffman
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Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
From: Mike Dustan <Mike_Dustan@sfu.ca>
Subject: Re: Boxed text in Framemaker?
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A771A88408032B30@opifex.ucs.sfu.ca>
X-Xxdate: Thu, 7 Jan 93 17:29:40 GMT
Organization: Simon Fraser University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d14
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:29:43 GMT

In article <ZSG0OGF@math.fu-berlin.de> Thomas Wolff,
wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de writes:
>>In article <ByyE96.DC9@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca> dwbraam@crg4.uwaterloo.ca
(Doug  
>>Braam) writes:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> 
>>>   A friend of mine is wondering if it's possible to create boxed text
in the
>>> middle of a sentence using Framemaker.  He wants to create something
like:
>>> 
>>>   "The Return key is a nifty little piece of plastic..."
>>> 
>>> where there's a box around the word 'Return' to indicate that it's a
key on
>>> the keyboard. 
>
>>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.
>
>>Select the anchored frame, and using the graphics tools, set its fill
to None and  
>>its pen to black.
>
>>Slide the anchored frame over the word Return, and resize it as
desired. If you  
>>want a fancier box, create whatever you want inside the anchored frame,
and set the  
>>pen of the anchored frame to None.

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.

Cheers,
Mike Dustan, Computing Services, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
Canada
Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
From: haberman@s6.msi.umn.edu (Joe Habermann)
Subject: Problem with typing in popups in 3.1X
Summary: Frame 3.1X won't let me type into a popup
Keywords: Frame 3.1 typing popup freeze frozen twm
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:54:03 GMT

The manual, the OpenIssues doc, or release notes may have said 
something about this but... I'm having trouble when trying to type 
into popups such as the "Paragraph Format" window.  It ignores all 
of my key presses.  

I'm using Frame 3.1X on a Sun running SunOS 4.1.2.  It is being
displayed on a 3/60 with an X11R5 server with vtwm 3.0 as my
window manager.

Thanks -- and sorry if this was in the manual,

Joe Habermann
haberman@msi.umn.edu
From: amy@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Amy McNulty)
Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
Subject: Re: Special->Variable box active at all times?
Date: 8 Jan 93 15:04:43 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: blueheron.pubs.stratus.com

In article <1993Jan7.214844.4874@merlin.dev.cdx.mot.com>  
haluk@merlin.dev.cdx.mot.com (Haluk Gumrukcu) writes:
> 
> Is there a way to make Special->Variable box active at all times?
> It is annoying to activate it every time I need to insert a variable?

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.

______________________________________________________________
amy_mcnulty@vos.stratus.com  or  amy@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
Amy McNulty -- Stratus Computer, Marlboro, MA
Stratus pays me to write, but not to write this!
Newsgroups: comp.text.frame