Open the HTML in a browser. The idea of Smart Paste is that it knows how to
take different formats of data on the clipboard and convert it to the given
Maker Structure App on the fly. Under the covers it uses an XSLT -- But It
think the DITA Topic struct app comes with Smart Paste already
You guys like to do things the hard way! Conversion Tables are so easy to
set and simple to use, especially for a simple structure like you have. I am
sorry, but Smart Paste is not the best way to do this. Theresa, I offered to
help you, but haven't heard from you. Oh well, have fun with Smart
If Google Ngrams is to be believed, it was first coined around 1824:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=wordmongeryear_start=1800year_end=2000
Original Message
From: Steve Rickaby srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk
Date: Tue, May 20, 2014 2:05 pm
Ps. Word Mongers -
Is there any way to keep the index visible when wandering through the
Adobe website? I see those little left/right arrows but the following
subjects don't make any sense to me; I'd rather click through a
table-like index. It takes a lot of time to click to the top of the
breadcrumbs to start
Hi Pascale,
As you're looking for a Tech Writer with Flare and prior FM experience, may
I suggest you post your job ad to the MadCap Flare forums, and LinkedIn
Flare User group:
http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=gid=86373
Both are very active, and you're
Tino's description is quite accurate. What this implies is that providing MIFs
can be cheaper, since all the DTP stuff is taken on after the translation.
Doing the DTP yourself can be quite instructive in instituting best practices
for documents that will undergo translation. There are many of
On 5/22/2014 12:10 PM, Chris Despopoulos wrote:
I'd say what you're doing wrongly is saving as XML first. Save your
unstructured doc as HTML, then copy/smart-paste into the body tag of a
new DITA topic.
I saved the file as .htm and the name of the file in Frame was still
.fm, but I can see
No doubt you're right, Rick. I'm in the If you have a hammer, everything
looks like a nail mode. I think Smart Paste is a great feature. Also, I
think you can use it with zero thought in this case... All the gestures are
menu commands already in the products. Worse, DITA is probably
On 2014-May-22 11:55 AM, Theresa de Valence wrote:
Is there any way to keep the index visible when wandering through the
Adobe website? I see those little left/right arrows but the following
subjects don't make any sense to me; I'd rather click through a
table-like index. It takes a lot of
