macro and menu command failure

[ERIC Lawson - x52010 <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Using FM 5.5.6 on a Solaris system, I attempted to create a macro that
would surround a text selection with two custom marker types, one at each
end.  Both markers are empty.

First I tried building the macro with the standard keystrokes:

       <Definition \!ex\!Fim+/Tab \s0/Up /Up /Up \s/Tab /Tab /Return \!Fid\!ep
    \!Fim+/Tab \s0/Up /Up \s/Tab /Tab /Return \!Fid>
       <Mode NonMath>>

These keystrokes do the trick when not invoked as a macro.  When invoked
as a macro, the macro exits without generating an error message after the
first marker is inserted and the focus is returned to the document
(<Definition \!ex\!Fim+/Tab \s0/Up /Up /Up \s/Tab /Tab /Return \!Fid).

I next attempted to build the macro as the corresponding set of fcodes in
a menu command.  This attempt had the same result in that the menu
command bombed at the same point upon execution.

Can anybody help explain this FM macro (and Command) behavior, or suggest
another procedure that will work to the same end?  My own investigations
suggested that the problem resided in variable treatment of modal and
modeless dialogs in macro and command execution...but that didn't suggest
a solution to me.

regards,
Eric

James Eric Lawson
Research Publications Editor III
National Simulation Resource

eric@bioeng.washington.edu




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