RE: BUG: Unavailable font culprit -- FOUND!

[lsmalley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Lester C. Smalley)]

Rather than editing the MIF file(s), if you don't have too many* table
formats, you can do this:

- Insert in a blank document one of each type of table without changing
  any of the default settings (columns, body rows, etc.)

- Open the table designer

- At the lower-left, pull down the COMMANDs menu and select delete

- In the ensuing dialog, delete ALL the defined table styles

- be sure the paragraph formats used for your tables are all setup as you
  wish. This includes: Cell Heading, Cell Body, Table Title, TableFootnote
  and any other tags you use

  (tag names are case and space sensitive, I'll remind everyone)

- Go through each table you added in the first step by literally clicking
  to select a cell in it, and using the table designer, select the command 
  option "New Format" and save the tag in tha catalog

When you save a format in the catalog for the very first time, FrameMaker
also stores the number of columns and their widths, number of each type
of row (header, footer, body), the paragraph tags used in the table and
their definitions (this is the 'gotcha' that you're having trouble with)
as well as the setable BASIC, RULING and SHADING properties.

For whatever reason, no amount of updating via the paragraph designer
seems to fix these hidden definitions for the formats used in the tables.

Note: * too many is a nebulous term, meaning more than you want to mess
        around with in this fashion

I hope this helps.

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| >> The TABLE FORMAT definitions include complete copies of the para tag
| >> definitions if you set specific cells to use specific para tags!!!!
| 
| > Redefine the tables using paratags that are defined as you want
| > (hit Update All for this). 
| 
| The para tags are already (re-)defined as we want them. We didn't
| change which para tags got used; we changed the fonts used in 
| those para tag definitions. BTW, which "Update All"??
| - The CellHeading format already has the correct font applied. 
|   Update All has no further affect.
| - The Table Designer does not allow you to see which cells have
|   what types of format defaults set. 
| 
| Just for grins, I re-defined the CellHeading, hit the Update All,
| went back and looked at the Table Designer, hit that Update All,
| and saved the doc as MIF. The para tag definition included in the
| table format definition did not change. 
| 
| Looks like I have to edit the MIF files. Ugh. 
| 
| --Ananda
| ananda.stevens@windriver.com

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