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Subject:RE: FM 8 "Next pgf tag" having no effect... From:"Sean Brierley" <sbrierley -at- Accu-Time -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:23:27 -0400
How odd, because I just tested with empty paragraphs and the next tag
feature continues to work correctly for me.
Cheers,
Sean
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Sean Brierley
Technical Writer
www.accu-time.com
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Subject: RE: FM 8 "Next pgf tag" having no effect...
Lin Sims wrote:
> This seems to be a (semi) long standing issue with FM8, in that others
> have reported having problems with it: to be specific, when pressing
> return, FM ignores the Next Tag information and adds another line
> using the same tag.
>
> I ran into this issue last night. Since I didn't know that others had
> experienced it, I thought it was something weird with my installation
> and I reinstalled everything. Not something I really wanted to do!
>
> The Adobe Forums thread
> (http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?128@@.3c059165) hasn't been updated
> since April.
>
> I was wondering if anyone had found a fix or work around for this in
> the months since?
IIRC, the "workaround" is to type something in the first pgf before
pressing Enter. I believe it only behaves that way (maybe intentionally
so?) if the first pgf is empty.
HTH!
Richard
Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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303-777-0436
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