Creating A Simple Mif File For Framemaker - Adobe FRAMEMAKER 6.0 Manual

The following suggestions may be helpful when you are working with MIF statements:
Edit a MIF file generated by a FrameMaker product.
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You can edit a MIF file generated by a FrameMaker product or copy a group of statements from a MIF file
into your file and then edit the statements. An easy way to use a FrameMaker product to generate a MIF
file is to create an empty document by using the New command and then saving it as a MIF file.
Test one object at a time.
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While testing an object in a document or learning about the MIF statements that describe an object, work
with just that object. For example, if you work with a document that contains both tables and anchored
frames, start by creating the MIF statements that describe tables. Then add the statements that describe
anchored frames.
Use the default properties provided by a FrameMaker product.
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If you are not concerned with testing certain document components, let a FrameMaker product provide a
set of default document objects and formats.
MIF file layout
A FrameMaker product writes the objects in a MIF document file in the following order:
This section Contains these objects
File ID MIF file identification line (MIFFile statement)
Units Default units (Units statement)
Catalogs Color
Condition
Paragraph Format
Element
Font or Character Format
Ruling
Table Format
Views
Formats Variable
Cross-reference
Objects Document
Dictionary
Anchored frames
Tables
Pages
Text flows
A FrameMaker product provides all of these objects, even if the object is empty. To avoid unpredictable
results in a document, you must follow this order when you create a MIF file.

Creating a simple MIF file for FrameMaker

The rest of this chapter explains how to create some simple MIF files for FrameMaker and FrameViewer by
hand. These instructions do not apply to FrameMaker+SGML, which requires that you create elements first.
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Using MIF Statements