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MIF Messages
When the MIF interpreter reads a MIF file, it might detect errors such as unexpected character sequences.
In UNIX versions, the MIF interpreter displays messages in a console window. In the Macintosh and
Windows versions, you must turn on Show File Translation Errors in the Preferences dialog box to display
messages in a window (a console window in the Windows version). If the MIF interpreter finds an error, it
continues to process the MIF file and reads as much of the document as possible.
General form for MIF messages
The general form of all MIF messages is:
MIF: Line LineNum: Message
The LineNum may be approximate because it represents the absolute line number in the file after all
macros in the file have been expanded. In addition, if you open the MIF file in a FrameMaker product, lines
are wrapped and the line numbers may change.
The Message portion consists of one of the messages in the following table. (Italicized words/characters
(for example, n) indicate variable words or values in a message.)
List of MIF messages
The tables in this section lists the MIF messages produced by the MIF interpreter and describes their
meanings.
This message
--- Skipping these chars:
...(MIF statements)...
---------- Done skipping.
A footnote cannot contain another footnote.
Bad parameter: parameter.
Cannot connect to TRNext ID n.
Cannot find anchored frame n.
Cannot find footnote n.
Cannot find table ID n.
Means
The MIF file contains a syntax error or a MIF statement not sup-
ported in this version of the FrameMaker product. The FrameMaker
product ignores all MIF statements contained within the erroneous
or unsupported MIF statement. The ignored MIF statements are
listed in the error message.
One footnote in the MIF file is embedded in another.
The MIF file contains a syntax error.
The text frame ID specified in a TRNext statement has no corre-
sponding defined text frame.
The graphic frame ID specified in an AFrames statement has no
corresponding defined graphic frame.
The footnote ID specified in a FNote statement has no corre-
sponding defined footnote.
MIF cannot match <ATbl x> with an earlier
<Tbl <TblID x>> statement.
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