Overview Of Mif Statements - Adobe FRAMEMAKER 6.0 Manual

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 and manipulate the other application, such as a
programming language or database query language.
This chapter provides basic information about working with MIF files, including opening and saving MIF
files in your FrameMaker product. It goes on to provide detailed information about the MIF language and
its syntax.
For an introduction to writing MIF files, read , "Using MIF Statements." You can then use the statement
index, subject index, and table of contents to locate more specific information about a particular MIF
statement.
For a description of a MIF statement, use the table of contents or statement index to locate the statement.
For a description of the differences between the MIF statements for this version of your FrameMaker
product and earlier versions, see , "MIF Compatibility."Style conventions
This manual uses different fonts to represent different types of information.
What you type is shown in
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.
MIF statement names, pathnames, and filenames are also shown in
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.
Placeholders (such as MIF data) are shown in
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text like this.
For example, the statement description for is shown as:
<PgfTag tagstring>
You replace tagstring with the tag of a paragraph format.
This manual also uses the term FrameMaker, (as in FrameMaker product, FrameMaker document, or
FrameMaker session) to refer to any of the FrameMaker, FrameMaker+SGML, and FrameViewer products.

Overview of MIF statements

When you are learning about MIF statements, you may find it useful to understand how FrameMaker
products represent documents.
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Introduction