21.3.12 Eliminating unwanted paragraphs

Suppose your FrameMaker document contains manually inserted page-oriented navigation aids, such as the text “(Continued)” when a procedure breaks across a FrameMaker page boundary. To prevent this text from appearing in HTML output, you can use conditional text, or you can do the following:

1. Use a special paragraph format for all instances of the text in your document.

2. In the configuration file, assign property Delete to the paragraph format:

[HTMLParaStyles]

; Delete removes the style and all of its content

ParaFmt = Delete

The Delete format property works whether or not the paragraph actually has content. It omits paragraph content, and any Frames Above/Below, from HTML output, and omits the format from any consideration in mapping to DITA parent elements.

Any paragraph content is still available, and can be used in Mif2Go macros; see §28.3.7 Creating macro variables from paragraph content.

Note:  Applied to an anchor paragraph, Delete does not remove any anchored frames or tables that are anchored in the paragraph; Delete merely causes the anchor paragraph itself to be omitted from HTML output.

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