RE: Finding Paragraph Tags with Format Overrides

[Dan Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:27 AM 12/8/00 -0800, Deborah Snavely wrote:
>Peter asked:
> >Is there a way use the Find/Change feature to find paragraphs within a
> >chapter that have format overrides? In other words, I want to be able
>to
> >find paragraphs that are tagged "*Body" but not "Body". Any ideas?
>
>I don't know a way to do what you describe. However, depending on where
>you need to go AFTER you find these paragraphs, here's what I've done to
>fix things quickly.
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I assume the original poster wants to evaluate each format override to
determine whether the override should be removed, and, if not, create
a new paragraph format for it, or apply an existing format tag to it.
The easy way to identify format overrides is to use Create and Apply Formats:

How is it invoked?
With input focus in the document being analyzed, choose File > Utilities > 
Create and Apply Formats.
What does it do?
It scans a document, and finds all occurrences of:
Format overrides to paragraphs.
Each such paragraph is assigned a new tag, which is added to the paragraph 
catalog. For example, if there are three instances where properties of the 
Body paragraph format are overridden, three new paragraph tags, Body1, 
Body2, and Body3 are added to the paragraph catalog, where Body1, Body2, 
and Body3 each have differing overrides
Untagged formatted strings within paragraphs.
Each such string is assigned a new tag, which is added to the character 
catalog. For example, if three strings in different paragraphs have an 
ad-hoc Bold property that overrides the default non-bold property of the 
paragraph format, all three strings would be tagged with a new character 
format named CharFmt. Then, if another such string is found that has an 
Italic property that overrides the default non-italic property of the 
paragraph format, it would be tagged with a new character format named 
CharFmt1. Both of these new tags would be added to the character catalog.
Now, you can use Find/Change to search for each instance of each new tag 
created by the Create and Apply Formats action, and evaluate what to do 
about the override in each instance.

I have more about this method in my paper "FrameMaker Template Design and 
Enforcement." This paper can be found at
www.microtype.com.
Click on the Resources Link, and Scroll down to "Dan Emory's Articles."

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