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Definition-Editor
Definition Editor is a plug-in for FrameMaker that is supplied and installed with the FINALYSER. Definition Editor is an aid for editing cross-reference formats, variable definitions and marker texts.By contrast with the dialogs in the Special menu item, you enter text and the system displays it in a font that you can select. This makes it possible to represent correctly non-Latin characters like Cyrillic in the definition texts.
The Definition Editor is primarily designed as a valuable aid for translation. This means that not all marker types are included, but rather only the ones that can contain translatable text: Header/Footer $1, Header/Footer $2, Index, Comment, Subject, Author, Glossary and Hypertext (only alert and alert with title).
After correct installation, the system loads Definition Editor automatically when you start FrameMaker and displays it as a new itemDefinition Editor in the FINALYSER menu in FrameMaker's menu bar.
You use the Definition Editor plug-in as follows:
1. Adapt your document window to the text frame (ZOOM menu).
2. Place the text cursor in a paragraph that is formatted with the font that you want to use for the definition texts.
3. In the FINALYSER menu, click on Definition Editor..
4. The system displays a dialog box containing the following choices:
• Cross-reference Formats
• Variable Definitions
• Marker Text (only if available - then a second dialog box is requested for marker type selection)
5. If you click on Cancel the system opens a FrameMaker document for editing.On the title bar, it shows the type of the first object that you chose and the editor window shows the definition text.
6. You have the following two options:
• Edit the definition text, save your changes and have the system display automatically the next object.
• Display the next object.
7. After the last object, you have the choice of displaying the first one again or
of exiting the Definition Editor.
Last modified date: 02.24.2021