Disabling keystrokes for bold, italics, etc. in FM6

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8 total messages Started by sdfghjkl_99 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:55

#556

Author: sdfghjkl_99
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:55

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I'm preparing a new book that I plan to ultimately publish to print, PDF, epub, 
XML, etc.  All the single-sourcing advice I see tells me, among other things, to 
use only named character tags (styles) for changing character appearances.  In 
general, this is no problem, but for adding italics, bold, and underlines, I'm 
so used to using Ctrl-I, Ctrl-B, and Ctrl-U, I know I'll do it without thinking 
about it.  To save me from myself, I want to disable these keyboard shortcuts. 
Is there a way to do this?  I'm using FM6 under WinXP.

Thanks,

Scott

Re: Disabling keystrokes for bold, italics, etc. in FM6

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Author: Art Campbell
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:02

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There isn't a really good way to do that because they're Windows formatting shortcuts, not Frame's. A better solution may be to make a clean-up pass on your book occasionally with a plug in that locates over-rides or just a Search-and-replace for those formats with a character tag.

Art

Re: Disabling keystrokes for bold, italics, etc. in FM6

#558

Author: sdfghjkl_99
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:51

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Art Campbell wrote:
> There isn't a really good way to do that because they're Windows formatting shortcuts, not Frame's. A better solution may be to make a clean-up pass on your book occasionally with a plug in that locates over-rides or just a Search-and-replace for those formats with a character tag.

The problem is that they aren't format overrides, and they don't have character 
tag names.  One way to find them is to use FM's File > Utilities > Create and 
Apply Formats command, then look for manufactured character tag names, but 
that's pretty indirect.

One thing I'm considering is finding a Windows macro program that will capture 
keystrokes before they get to FM, then program it to swallow the shortcuts I 
don't want FM to see.  Does anybody have any experience with this kind of approach?

Scott

Re: Disabling keystrokes for bold, italics, etc. in FM6

#559

Author: Art Campbell
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:42

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You may not think they're format overrides, but Frame does, because they're neither the Default font setting nor a character tag. So they can be located by any of the several plug-ins that locates format overrides.

Re: Disabling keystrokes for bold, italics, etc. in FM6

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Author: Ian Hawkins
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:46

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Do you have FrameScript? It would be simple to create a script that does 
nothing, then assign it to any key combinations you want to disable.

You could do the same thing with a FrameMaker plug-in.

Ian

Re: Disabling keystrokes for bold, italics, etc. in FM6

#561

Author: Arnis_Gubins
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:58

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Scott,

You can easily remove these commands from FM by modifying the .cfg
files in the \fminit\configui folder. 

Make a copy of these files first!

Using a text editor, in the cmds.cfg file look for following commands:
StyleBold, StyleItalic, StyleUnderline. Delete the definitions. Then
in the wincmds.cfg fie, also remove the Modify definitions for these.

When you re-start FM, there won't be any functionality assigned to
those keys anymore.

For more info, refer to the "Customizing Commands" section of the
"Customizing Frame Products" PDF in the \Documents folder.

Re: Disabling keystrokes for bold, italics, etc. in FM6

#562

Author: sdfghjkl_99
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:31

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Arnis_Gubins@adobeforums.com wrote:
> You can easily remove these commands from FM by modifying the .cfg
> files in the \fminit\configui folder. 

This worked fine, thanks very much for your help.

Scott

Re: Disabling keystrokes for bold, italics, etc. in FM6

#563

Author: sdfghjkl_99
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:39

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Art Campbell wrote:
> You may not think they're format overrides, but Frame does, because they're neither the Default font setting nor a character tag. So they can be located by any of the several plug-ins that locates format overrides.

Before I posted, I tried the CudSpan huntOverrides tool, and it failed to find 
italicized text, but now I see that it finds only paragraph overrides, not 
character overrides.  Still, I don't think that FM recognizes use of italics or 
bold as an override (at least not of the default paragraph font), because there 
is no asterisk in the status bar next to the paragraph or character tag name.

Anyway, Arnis Gubins showed me how to disable the keyboard shortcuts, so my 
problem is now solved.

Scott

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