Re: backpedaling MIF files RE: fmbatch to convert to FM6 (or 5.5.6?)

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

> Wouldn't it be nice to have a tool that scans a log of these MIF error
> messages and throws away all the spurious ones and keeps only those
> that would indicate meaningful (unintended) use of an FM6 (or FM7)
> feature or actual loss of content.

That's not entirely easy, in the general case, as a single MIF
statement doesn't give you context enough to know what effect
ignoring the statement will have.

> Does anyone have a comprehensive list of these opcodes not available
> in FM5.5.6?

It's in the online MIF manual, the chapter "MIF compatibility".

> Anybody want to bite off constructing a script to remove this log noise
> for purposeful backpedalers of MIF files? 

I can make a simple UNIX shell script, provided you decide what is
noise and what is not. It's not entirely easy to know whether you
actually use the new <$chapnum> variable for anything useful in
your FM7 files, even though it's always there in the MIF file.
Then you'd have to analyze the context of the statements, which
is a little bit trickier than a simple "grep" or "sed"...


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