Adobe FRAMEMAKER 10 - Comment Statement

ADOBE FRAMEMAKER 10
MIF Reference
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Syntax
Verbose statement
The Verbose statement turns on a debugging mode for MIF. It can appear anywhere at the top level or within any
statement.
Syntax
Usage
When Verbose mode is on, the MIF interpreter writes detailed stream of processing descriptions to a window. In
UNIX versions of FrameMaker, these descriptions appear in the window from which FrameMaker was started. To
display messages in the Windows version, you must turn on Show File Translation Errors in FrameMaker’s Prefer-
ences dialog box. The messages appear in a console window in Windows. The processing descriptions can be quite
long, but may be essential for debugging a program that creates MIF for input to FrameMaker. A
Verbose statement
can occur unnested or within markup statements, as explained later in this chapter. A
Verbose statement remains
in effect until the interpreter encounters another
Verbose statement that changes the setting.
Comment statement
The Comment statement identifies an optional comment.
Syntax
Usage
Comments can appear within Comment statements, or they can follow a number sign (#). When it encounters a
number sign, the MIF interpreter ignores all text until the end of the line, including angle brackets.
Because
Comment statements can be nested within one another, the MIF interpreter examines all characters following
an angle bracket until it finds the corresponding angle bracket that ends the comment.
<Comment - The following statements define the paragraph formats>
<Comment <These statements have been removed: <Font <FBold> <FItalic>>>>
The MIF interpreter processes number signs within Comment statements as normal comments, ignoring the
remainder of the line.
<Comment - When a number sign appears within a <Comment> statement,
# the MIF interpreter ignores the rest of the characters in that
# line--including angle brackets < >.>
# End of <Comment> Statement.
<CharUnits
keyword >
Default units for font size and line spacing
keyword can be one of:
CUpt
CUQ
<Verbose
boolean >
Yes
turns on debugging information
<Comment comment-text >
Identifies a comment