Incorrect Character Tag in Quick Access Bar

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5 total messages Started by David_Conole Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:00

#1657

Author: David_Conole
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:00

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Our writers in China have a document that uses the Body Paragraph Tag (this tag uses Times New Roman as its Character Tag). If the writers add new text within this paragraph, the character tag box in the Quick Access Bar displays Chinese characters rather than Times New Roman.
Any ideas ?

Re: Incorrect Character Tag in Quick Access Bar

#1658

Author: ShlomoPerets
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:51

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You are probably referring to an incorrect paragraph tag, not an incorrect character tag. This problem started with FM7.0:

 <http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=327771&sliceId=1>

[ A character tag is displayed in the formatting bar with ToolbarPlus, <http://www.microtype.com/ToolbarPlus.html> ]

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Re: Incorrect Character Tag in Quick Access Bar

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Author: systecgmbhnuremberg
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:41

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Hello Mr. Conole,

Mr. Perets is right: this is just a long standing bug in FrameMaker.
The best way to determine, which format a paragraph has is to look into the status line at the bottom of the FM dialogue window. There, the displayed name is always the correct one.
Plus: you will also see character formats, star formats and text conditions that affect the area round your insertion point.

Hope this helps,
Franz.

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Re: Incorrect Character Tag in Quick Access Bar

#1527

Author: David_Conole
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:35

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Actually, we solved the issue.

By default, the Chinese writers "Text Services and Input Languages" setting in Microsoft XP was set to CH (Chinese). Therefore, any time they went to add text to a FrameMaker document created in the U.S., Chinese characters would appear (and a default Chinese character tag would be used).
By adding the EN (English) service to the Text Services and Input Languages setting in Microsoft XP, and then selecting EN as language of choice when editing U.S. created FrameMaker documents, the problem is solved.

Re: Incorrect Character Tag in Quick Access Bar

#1532

Author: Sheila_Carlisle
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:54

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David, thank you for posting your solution to the forum, it's an important contribution to the FM community's "knowledgebase".

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