Keyboard commands in the para format box

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2 total messages Started by Barbara Zayas Wed, 11 Nov 1992 13:41

Author: Barbara Zayas
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 13:41

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I'm running 3.1X on a Sun4.

Very often when I use keyboard commands (ctrl-v, esc-v) to
scroll through the Paragraph Format window, when I pass over
the Numbering sheet, although I've not made ANY changes to
that sheet (or any of the surrounding sheets a lot of the
time), FM prompts me as to whether the changes should be
applied or not before moving me from the Numbering sheet onto
the next (or previous) sheet.

This has happened often enough that I know that I've not
inadvertently/unknowingly changed anything on that page...it
just prompts me out of the blue.

This doesn't happen when I use the mouse to click through the
Properties Box of the Paragraph Format window -- it only
happens when I use the keyboard commands.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Thanks.
Barbara



Barbara Zayas				Software Engineering Institute
Information Management			Carnegie Mellon University
bjz@sei.cmu.edu				(412) 268-6378

RESOLUTION: Re: Keyboard commands in the para format box

Author: Barbara Zayas
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:15

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In article <1992Nov11.134125.20716@sei.cmu.edu>, bjz@sei.cmu.edu (Barbara Zayas) writes:
|> 
|> I'm running 3.1X on a Sun4.
|> 
|> Very often when I use keyboard commands (ctrl-v, esc-v) to
|> scroll through the Paragraph Format window, when I pass over
|> the Numbering sheet, although I've not made ANY changes to
|> that sheet (or any of the surrounding sheets a lot of the
|> time), FM prompts me as to whether the changes should be
|> applied or not before moving me from the Numbering sheet onto
|> the next (or previous) sheet.

Thanks to Alan Koch for discovering the cause of this problem:

>After some investigation we have discovered that this ALWAYS happens when:
>1.  There is an autonumber format displayed AND
>2.  The format includes any building block (\t, \b, or anything in <>'s), AND
>3.  The format was defined in FrameMaker 2, AND
>4.  The Numbering Property Sheet for that paragraph has never been applied
>    under FrameMaker 3.

>If you answer "Apply" to the dialog, it will never happen on that paragraph
>again.  

>If you save an offending document to MIF, then open the MIF, this STILL
>happens, so I examined the MIF and discovered a difference between the way
>FrameMaker 2 and 3 specify autonumbers.  (See below.)  Clearly, it is this
>difference which is causing the problem.

== Paragraph that the Numbering Property Sheet does NOT complain about =======
 <Para 
  <PgfTag `bu'>
  <Pgf 
   <PgfNumFormat `B:n\t'>
  > # end of Pgf
  <PgfNumString `n\t'>
  <ParaLine 
   <String `Start FrameMaker.'>
  >
 > # end of Para
== Paragraph that the Numbering Property Sheet DOES complain about ===========
 <Para 
  <PgfTag `bu'>
  <PgfNumString `n\t'>
  <ParaLine 
   <String `Move FrameMaker windows.'>
  >
 > # end of Para
== End of samples ============================================================

Barbara Zayas				Software Engineering Institute
Information Management			Carnegie Mellon University
bjz@sei.cmu.edu				(412) 268-6378

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