Adobe FRAMEMAKER 10 - Tables

ADOBE FRAMEMAKER 10
MIF Reference
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This statement takes precedence over all other font attributes. For example, if the document includes a font with
<FEncoding `JISX0208.ShiftJIS’>, but that font family is not available on the user’s system, then the text will
appear in some other font on the system that uses Japanese encoding. If there is no Japanese encoded font on the
system, the text appears in Roman encoding and the user will see garbled characters.
FPlatformName statement
The <FPlatformName string > statement provides a platform-specific ASCII string name that uniquely identifies
a font for a particular platform. The
string value consists of several fields separated by a period.
Windows: The Windows platform name has the following syntax:
<FPlatformName W. FaceName . ItalicFlag.Weight.Variation >
The following statements are valid representations of the Windows font Helvetica Narrow Bold Oblique:
<FPlatformName W.Helvetica-Narrow.I.700>
<FPlatformName W.Helvetica.I.700.Narrow>
Tables
Table formats are defined by a TblFormat statement. Table formats can be locally defined or they can be stored in a
Table Catalog, which is defined by a
TblCatalog statement. The ruling styles used in a table are defined in a
RulingCatalog statement.
In a MIF file, all document tables are contained in one Tbls statement. Each table instance is contained in a Tbl
statement. The
ATbl statement specifies where each table instance appears in the text flow.
TblCatalog statement
The TblCatalog statement defines the Table Catalog. A document can have only one TblCatalog statement, which
must appear at the top level in the order given in “MIF file layout” on page 52.
Syntax
W
Platform designator
FaceName
Windows face name (for more information, see your Windows documentation)
ItalicFlag
Whether font is italic; use one of the following flags:
I (Italic)
R (Regular)
Weight
Weight classification, for example 400 (regular) or 700 (bold)
Variation
Optional variation, for example Narrow
<TblCatalog
<TblFormat…>
Defines a table format (see “TblFormat statement,” next)
<TblFormat…>
Additional statements as needed
…
>
End of TblCatalog statement