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Re: Highlight text in FrameMaker.

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From: Russ Ward
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:37
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Jack,

It is not possible for an EDD to apply shading or highlighting. What you propose is a complex task involving lots of programming or scripting to implement, especially as you need to derive the highlighting from metadata in an XML source. If FrameMaker had a native feature for highlighting, this would be simple. However, because it doesn't, it is very complicated indeed.

My best recommendation is to give up the requirement for highlighting. If you absolutely need highlighting, you might reconsider FrameMaker as your XML tool. The level of complexity and inconvenience that you will have to endure just for this one feature may make another XML tool a better choice.

Russ
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