FM 10 keyboard shortcuts: clear format overrides

[FieryPantone]

I'm so pleased to be back … FM is one of the platforms available at my new workplace, and I hope (of course) to introduce the tried and trusted FM/Acrobat workflow I've been used to elsewhere.

That aside, my first FM 10 question: the "clear overrides" shortcut – esc, o,c,m, was it? – seems to have been hijacked for content management options. Any hints on where how to access this function would be welcome, now I'm tidying up existing documents. Thanks in advance.

[RoboColum_n_]

Hi Niels.

In FM10 this has been replaced by an option in the Find and Replace dialog. Check out the Overrides section at this link:

http://www.scriptorium.com/2011/01/framemaker-10-review/#high_4

[FieryPantone]

Esc, o, c, p of course … now I've found my cheat sheet. And indeed, hijacked :-{ What's more, it appears at first glance that there is no keyboard navigation within the dialog box any more. Am I missing something, or will I end up with a hyperdeveloped right shoulder from Mac-like everything-by-mouse?  N

[Arnis_Gubins]

Niels,

Klaus Daube has a list of commands (FM11, but it will apply to FM10 as well) at http://daube.ch/docu/files/etb-fm11-commands.pdf

Scott Prentice has a great utility ListShortcuts (http://leximation.com/tools/info/listshortcuts.php) that creates a document in table form showing all the FM commands and associated shortcuts in the currently installed version of FM.

There also are summary tables of most of the common shortcuts in the online & PDF documentation for FM10.

Unfortuantely, the esc o c p shortcut has been defined twice (bad Adobe, bad! - doesn't anybody QC these files???) in the \fminit\configui\cmds.cfg with the later one being the CMSPrefrence command. To get back the original CharacterDefaultPgfFont operation, simply comment out the section (or change the Key sequence definition):

<Command CMSPreference

   <Label Preferences...>

   <KeySequence \!ocp>

   <Definition \x804>

   <Mode All>>

located near the end of the cmds.cfg file (starts at line 4394 in my version) by placing a semi-colon in the first column of each "commented" line.

[FieryPantone]

Fantastic! thanks very much, Arnis … I'll start negotiations with IT to see whether they're minded to update the cmds.cfg. While they're at it, what do they need to adjust to get rid of the anxious Delete stack message?

[Arnis_Gubins]

"Delete stack message"

Are you referring to the Undo History messages? You can set this in your File > Preferences > Alert Strings... by turning off the "Show warnings while clearing history" option.

[FieryPantone]

That's the one! and changing a Preferences setting is easier than editing a config file …

[FieryPantone]

Pending negotiations with IT, though they've been helpful so far … I'm trying to get my head round the new-fangled Find/replace approach: without any noticeable success.

Consider the following case:

• I have a paragraph style for table anchors, called imaginatively :anchor
• I have a character style for code snippets within a paragraph, called !xph (smile reminiscently if you recognise this as eXample PHrase)
• Over-hasty copy/paste has given me an empty paragraph whose formatting displays in the status bar as ¶ :anchor f !xph (I've dropped a couple of colons here)

I use esc, h, p to select the paragraph, then go to the new beefed-up Find/replace dialog. Find 'Character Format Override', Change 'Remove Override', in selection, do it. No change in the status bar: still ¶ :anchor f !xph What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance for hints and tips.

[peter_minneapolis]

Have you tried the operation with format names that have no special characters like "!" and ":"?

HTH

Regards,

Peter

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[FieryPantone]

No, because since I first discovered FM with 5.5 all my paragraph styles start with a colon and all my character styles with an exclamation mark  Time to call IT and have esc, o, c, p restored to the function nature intended …

[Arnis_Gubins]

Niels,

The Find/Change approach looks for overrides only, not tags (either defined in the catalog or not) to remove.

I tried your approach (tagged some characerts and then made a manual override elsewhere in the same paragraph) using a custom character tag (!mytag) and that worked properly (the override disappeared) in my version of FM11, i.e. the special characters do not affect the behaviour.

Why not simply delete the empty paragraph...

[FieryPantone]

Well, yes … I did end simply deleting the empty paragraph; but I'll keep irritation at the new method up my sleeve for later :-} And I've sent my request into IT.