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All rights reserved. 3 Contents Introduction Why use MIF? .................................................. 6 ............................................... 6 ...................................... 7 Using this manual Overview of MIF statements MIF statement syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Using MIF Statements Working with MIF files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Creating a simple MIF file for FrameMaker Creating and applying character formats Creating and formatting tables Specifying page layout Creating markers Creating variables Creating cross-references Creating conditional text Including template files Applications of MIF Debugging MIF files Other application tools Where to go from here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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Document Statements MIF file layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 MIFFile statement Control statements Macro statements Conditional text Paragraph formats Character formats Tables Color Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Cross-references Global document properties 4 Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Graphic objects and graphic frames Text flows Publishers Text insets (text imported by reference) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 MIF Book File Statements MIF book file overview Book statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 MIF book file identification line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 MIF Statements for Structured Documents and Books Structural element definitions Attribute definitions Format rules Elements Format change lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Preference settings for structured documents Text in structured documents Structured book statements MIF Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 MIF Equation Statements Document statement Math statement MathFullForm statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 MIF Asian Text Processing Statements Asian Character Encoding Combined Fonts Kumihan Tables Rubi text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 Examples Text example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Bar chart example Pie chart example Custom dashed lines Table examples Database publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 5 MIF Messages General form for MIF messages List of MIF messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 MIF Compatibility Changes between version 5.5 and 6.0 Changes between version 5 and 5.5 Changes between versions 4 and 5 Changes between versions 3 and 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Facet Formats for Graphics Facets for imported graphics Basic facet format Graphic insets (UNIX versions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278 General rules for reading and writing facets EPSI Facet Format Specification of an EPSI facet Example of an EPSI facet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 FrameImage Facet Format Specification of a FrameImage facet Specification of FrameImage data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 Differences between monochrome and color Sample unencoded FrameImage facet Sample encoded FrameImage facet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288 FrameVector Facet Format Specification of a FrameVector facet Specification of FrameVector data Sample FrameVector facet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308 6 Introduction MIF (Maker Interchange Format) is a group of ASCII statements that create an easily parsed, readable text file of all the text, graphics, formatting, and layout constructs that most FrameMaker® products (with the exception of FrameReader®) understand. Because MIF is an alternative representation of a FrameMaker document, it allows FrameMaker products and other applications to exchange information while preserving graphics, document content, and format. Why use MIF? You can use MIF files to allow FrameMaker products and other applications to exchange information. For example, you can write programs to convert graphics and text into MIF and then import the MIF file into a FrameMaker product with the graphics and text intact. You can also save a FrameMaker document or book file as a MIF file and then write a program to convert the MIF file to another format. These conversion programs are called filters; filters allow you to convert FrameMaker document files into foreign files (files in another word processing or desktop publishing format), and foreign files into FrameMaker document files. You can use MIF files with database publishing applications, which allow you to capture changing data from databases and format the data into high-quality documents containing both text and graphics information. You use the database to enter, manipulate, sort, and select data. You use a FrameMaker product to format the resulting data. You use MIF files as the data interchange format between the database and the FrameMaker product. You can also use MIF files to do the following: · Share documents with earlier versions of FrameMaker products · Perform custom document processing · Set options for online documents in View Only format These tasks are described in "Applications of MIF" on page 60. You can use other FrameMaker products to perform some of these tasks. See "Other application tools" on page 64. Using this manual This manual: · Describes the layout of MIF files. · Provides a complete description of each MIF statement and its syntax. · Provides examples of how to use MIF statements. · Includes MIF statements for version 5.5 of the following FrameMaker products: FrameMaker®, FrameViewer®, FrameMaker+SGMLTM. ADOBE FRAMEMAKER 6.0 7 Introduction Your FrameMaker product may not include all of the features described in this manual. For example, some statements appear in all MIF files but are only applicable for structured documents created with FrameMaker+SGML. Contact your FrameMaker local customer service representative for information about other FrameMaker products. To get the most from this manual you should be familiar with your FrameMaker product. For information about a FrameMaker product and its features, see the documentation for your product. In addition, if you are using MIF as an interchange format between a FrameMaker product and another application, you should be familiar with the tools needed to create ...