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- From: khor@bnr.ca (Kyle Hor)
- Subject: Re: User/Frame variables
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.145820.13259@bmers95.bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
- References: <7947@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:58:20 GMT
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- In article <7947@charon.cwi.nl>, jansteen@cwi.nl (Jan van der Steen) writes:
- |> Is it possible to use Frame buildin variables (like <$monthnum> for
- |> example) in the definition of user defined variables.
- |>
- |> My trials didn't work so far:
- |>
- |> "The month = <$monthnum>"
- |>
- |> gets expanded in the document to:
- |>
- |> "The month = <$monthnum>>"
- |>
- Framemaker does not seem to understand variables in a user-defined variable.
- Any <$blah> will be treated (almost) literally. I'd to modify one of the
- system variable to do it. Sucks, doesn't it.
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