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MIF Reference Guide
• Units
• Condition tag properties
• Paragraph format properties
• Character format properties
• Page properties
• Graphic frame properties
• Text frame properties
• Fill pattern
• Pen pattern
• Line width
• Line cap
• Line style (dash or solid)
• Color
• Text line alignment and character format
Because the interpreter also provides default objects for a document, the current state of an object may be determined by a default object. For example, if a document does not provide any paragraph formats, the interpreter
applies a set of default paragraph properties to the first paragraph. Subsequent paragraphs use the same properties
unless otherwise specified.
How FrameMaker identifies MIF files
A MIF file must be identified by a MIFFile or Book statement at the beginning of the file; otherwise FrameMaker
simply reads the file as a text file. All other statements are optional; that is, a valid MIF file can contain only the
MIFFile statement. Other document objects can be added as needed; FrameMaker provides a set of default
objects if a MIF file does not supply them.
MIF statement syntax
The statement descriptions in this manual use the following conventions to describe syntax:
<token data>