Character Tools 1.3
Copyright (c) 2005 Silicon Prairie Software

Welcome to Character Tools. Character Tools is a FrameMaker 
plug-in that provides the following tools for working 
with FrameMaker character tags:

- List Character Usage -- Creates a list of the character tags used
  and not used in a Frame document or book

- Delete Unused Character Tags -- Removes unused paragraph tags 
  from a Frame document or book

- Create Character Tag List -- Creates a list of character tags to 
  keep in a set of FrameMaker document

- Remove Non-list Character Tags -- Removes character tags from a 
  Frame document or book that aren't included in a list of tags to
  keep

- Create Conversion Document -- Creates a list of character tags  
  that will be converted to other character tags in a Frame document
  or book

- Convert Characters -- Converts character tags in a Frame document
  or book, based on a character tag conversion document.

- Remove Overrides -- Removes character overrides from text in a 
  Frame document or book

- Find Next Override -- Locates the next character override in a text 
  flow or table

- Generate Character Tag Report -- Prints a report of all the character
  tags in a Frame document, or of the selected character tag.
  
Contents
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This package contains the following items:

FrameMaker 6.x components:
chartools - The Paragraph Tools plug-in used by FrameMaker 6.x.

FrameMaker 7.x components:
chartools - The Paragraph Tools plug-in used by FrameMaker 7.x.

Documentation
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Documentation for Character Tools is available in PDF form from the
Silicon Prairie Software web site.
(http://www.SiliconPrairieSoftware.com)

Installation
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Perform the following steps to install Character Tools for Sun Solaris:
1. Decide where you want the plug-in to be located and copy the appropriate
   version of it there. Remember this location.

2. Add an entry describing your client to the
   $FMHOME/fminit/UILanguage/APIArea/apiclients file, where
   UILanguage is a user-interface language directory. For example, if youÕre
   using the US English version of a FrameMaker product, you edit the file
   $FMHOME/fminit/usenglish/APIArea/apiclients. The entry should look
   like the following:
   
   <APIclient
   <Name chartools>
       <CommandLine xxxxx>
   >
   
   Replace the xxxxxx with the complete path to the chartools executable. 
   This is the location you decided in step 1.
   
3. Restart FrameMaker.

Shareware notice
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Character Tools is shareware. If you find Character Tools
useful, please pay the shareware fee. The $10 cost is minimal, given
the amount of time that Character Tools can save! Paying the shareware
fee also encourages development of other tools like Character Tools.

Kagi, a shareware payment service, handles payment processing for 
Paragraph Tools. Ordinarily, a registration application is used to
create an electronic or paper document that can be sent to them indicating
the form of payment. Unfortunately, this application is available only for
Windows and the Macintosh. It is _not_ available for Solaris. To register
Character Tools, we recommend that you download the Macintosh or Windows
version of Paragraph Tools, then use the Register application that comes in
either package. If you are unable to use either register using the 
Macintosh or Windows versions of Register, you may want to register 
online through the Silicon Prairie web site:

http://www.SiliconPrairieSoftware.com

If none of these payment methods is possible, please e-mail Silicon 
Prairie Software so payment can be arranged. Our e-mail address 
is SPSoftware@kagi.com.

Comments and suggestions
If you have any comments or suggestions for Character Tools, please
e-mail them to SPSoftware@kagi.com.