Re: Globally renaming condition tags in FrameMaker?

["Fiona Krycek" <fiona -dot- krycek -at- gmail -dot- com>]

hi there,

I was just re-reading this thread and finding myself confused about how
to search for a conditional tag and replace it with a different conditional
tag, as the last person in this thread suggests. I'm using Frame 7.2, and it
seems to me that the "Find/Change" box makes it easy to *find* a conditional
tag, but not so easy to replace it. That is, the "Find" field is a drop-down
list that includes "Conditional text." You can select "Conditional text,"
then choose the tag you want to find. But when you go to "Change," the field
has only three options:

To Text:
To Character Format....
By Pasting

I don't see an obvious way to do this. Can anyone help?

Alternatively, if anyone knows how to just change the name of an existing
conditional text tag, that would be a huge help.

thanks,
Fiona


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*Subject*: *Re: Globally renaming condition tags in FrameMaker?*
*From*: *David Wood <davidwood -at- canada -dot- com>*
*To*: *"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>*
*Date*: *Wed, 06 Feb 2002 09:53:30 -0500*


At 09:56 AM 2/6/2002 +0100, Chris wrote:


You should be able to change the name of a tag one document at a time. But
import formats won't work because that function is additive... If you change
FOO to BAR in doc A, then import cond fmts into doc B, doc B will have both
FOO and BAR. Worse, all text tagged FOO will still be tagged FOO.


This being the case, just add an extra step to the previous procedure: do a
global search and replace of all FOO instances with BAR.


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*Subject*: *Re: Globally renaming condition tags in FrameMaker?*
*From*: *Chris <cud -at- telecable -dot- es>*
*To*: *"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>*
*Date*: *Wed, 06 Feb 2002 09:56:30 +0100*
You should be able to change the name of a tag one document at a time. But
import formats won't work because that function is additive... If you change
FOO to BAR in doc A, then import cond fmts into doc B, doc B will have both
FOO and BAR. Worse, all text tagged FOO will still be tagged FOO.

You should look into the FrameUsers list and web site...
http://www.frameusers.com/ should get you to the list subscription.

--
Chris Despopoulos, maker of CudSpan Freeware...
Plugins to Enhance FrameMaker & FrameMaker+SGML
http://www.telecable.es/personales/cud/
cud -at- telecable -dot- es


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*Subject*: *Re: Globally renaming condition tags in FrameMaker?*
*From*: *David Wood <davidwood -at- canada -dot- com>*
*To*: *"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>*
*Date*: *Tue, 05 Feb 2002 23:25:18 -0500*


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