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MIF Reference
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Syntax
Verbose statement
The
Verbose
statement turns on a debugging mode for MIF. It can appear anywhere at the top level or within any
statement.
Syntax
Usage
When Verbose mode is on, the MIF interpreter writes detailed stream of processing descriptions to a window. In
UNIX versions of FrameMaker, these descriptions appear in the window from which FrameMaker was started. To
display messages in the Windows version, you must turn on Show File Translation Errors in FrameMaker’s Prefer-
ences dialog box. The messages appear in a console window in Windows. The processing descriptions can be quite
long, but may be essential for debugging a program that creates MIF for input to FrameMaker. A
Verbose
statement
can occur unnested or within markup statements, as explained later in this chapter. A
Verbose
statement remains
in effect until the interpreter encounters another
Verbose
statement that changes the setting.
Comment statement
The
Comment
statement identifies an optional comment.
Syntax
Usage
Comments can appear within
Comment
statements, or they can follow a number sign (#). When it encounters a
number sign, the MIF interpreter ignores all text until the end of the line, including angle brackets.
Because
Comment
statements can be nested within one another, the MIF interpreter examines all characters following
an angle bracket until it finds the corresponding angle bracket that ends the comment.
<Comment - The following statements define the paragraph formats>
<Comment <These statements have been removed: <Font <FBold> <FItalic>>>>
The MIF interpreter processes number signs within
Comment
statements as normal comments, ignoring the
remainder of the line.
<Comment - When a number sign appears within a <Comment> statement,
# the MIF interpreter ignores the rest of the characters in that
# line--including angle brackets < >.>
# End of <Comment> Statement.
<CharUnits
keyword
>
Default units for font size and line spacing
keyword
can be one of:
CUpt
CUQ
<Verbose
boolean
>
Yes
turns on debugging information
<Comment
comment-text
>
Identifies a comment