Re: Obnoxious CharFmt (and other) character tags

[Rhea Tolman <rhea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ada, I'm wondering why you are doing Generate and Apply Formats
more than once.  That's just a quick-and-dirty way of turning ad
hoc (untagged) formatting into tags. Tags are the only way to go
in FrameMaker. Once you've got your files tagged (manually or with
that Generate and Apply command), you wouldn't need Generate and
Apply command again. Always format everything with tags. That's
what makes it possible to maintain a consistent look in your docs
and to make global changes quickly. Don't ever apply anything
using Format>Font | Size | Style and don't use the Bold,
Underline, or Italic buttons or keyboard shortcuts and you'll
never need that command again.

cheers
Rhea Tolman


Ada Lai wrote:

> Hi, all..
>
> I am trying to clean up tags in an inherited book and have
> been plagued with numerous CharFmt and other tags that keep
> popping up everytime I do a File > Generate and Appply
> Formats.
>
> Earlier messages posted on this problem helped me determine
> that my problem might be aggravated by the use of
> conditional text, so I removed all conditional tags and
> restored the text to "normal" paragraph and character
> formats as per the rest of the doc.
>
> I've done global replacements of the bad tags with good
> ones. I purchased FrameScript and Rick Quatro's
> StripCharFmt script that restores anything with these bad
> tags to the default paragraph font -- this seems to work
> just perfectly.  I did a "find" on all of the bad tags in
> the body pages and received a "not found" confirmation that
> they are gone.
>
> I also went to the reference pages (because I have HTML
> tables there) and the master pages and cleaned up any of
> these bad tags. I cleaned out the character catalog by
> deleting all of the tags and then created and applied the
> formats again.
>
> I have 5 tags that just won't go away. Some keep returning
> to the body pages, while others continue to reappear in the
> reference pages (in the HTML tables).  I also have a rogue
> tag derived from one of tags used in cross-references that
> keeps showing up and I can't find anyplace where it's used.
>
> I am so frustrated -- can anyone clue me in on why this
> won't go away?
>
> As a final note, this is a command reference guide and it
> is loaded with tons of syntax definitions, which is where
> most of these bad tags are cropping up (at least in the
> body pages).
>
> A typical syntax line might look like:
>
>     XYZ {A|B} [p1, p2, p3]
>
> My syntax line has a para tag called CODE, which is a
> regular Courier font. However, I also have an "as is" BOLD
> character tag and an "as is" ITALIC character tag, which I
> would apply to my example as:
>
> BOLD for XYZ, A, and B
> ITALIC for p1, p2, p3
>
> Thus, the curly braces, square brackets, and commas are
> left in the default para font for the CODE tag.
>
> Many of my rogue CharFmt tags are showing up on the braces,
> commas, spaces, or paragraph marker.
>
> Does this make sense? What am I doing to trigger this
> problem?
>
> Thanks in advance for any insight that anyone can provide.
>
> Ada Lai
>
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