Re: a script for a combersome process?

["Thomas Michanek" <thomas.michanek@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Four possibilities although I can probably think of others:

In all your examples you say "Export only the content to MIF".
With this I assume you mean export the contents of all paragraphs,
including text, tables and graphics, but do not include any
paragraph, table or character formats. This will explicitly
remove all formatting of all text, as well as all information
on what formats were used. (There is no way in the current
implementation of how a document is stored in FM to provide
the name of formats without defining these formats.)

You conclude your examples with "import formats from template".
Unfortunately, at this stage, there are no formats in the
document for which an import operation would be applicable.
You may want it to be otherwise, but I'm pretty sure this would
require a redesign of the inner workings of how a document is
internally stored in FM.

> But I don't think you have it right about tables. You can have a table
> with out its corresponding format in the document.

Yes, I think you're right. However, this would still increase the
size of the resulting MIF file instead of reducing it, since the
table format definition must be repeated for each table instance,
instead of referring to the catalog format by name.


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Thomas Michanek, FrameMaker/UNIX/MIF expert
Technical Writer, Uppsala, Sweden
mailto:Thomas.Michanek@telia.com
http://go.to/framers/
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