RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Bernard Aschwanden (Publishing Smarter)
' Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) from earlier post While there's structured framemaker, dita, and a host of third party plugins can anyone really say its a simple, painless, and quick process to transition from unstructured framemaker to either structured

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Alison Craig
: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) Further to Matt's comments, I do conversion for clients, but usually 1000's of pages at a time, and sometimes it's Word, Frame, or sloppy Frame source content. In almost all cases we look for patterns. If they can be id'd then we

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Bernard Aschwanden (Publishing Smarter)
- From: Alison Craig [mailto:alison.cr...@ultrasonix.com] Sent: April-30-10 13:52 To: Bernard Aschwanden (Publishing Smarter); 'Matt Sullivan'; 'Joseph Lorenzini'; 'FrameMaker Forum' Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) BTW, with a system in place we

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Ed
(Publishing Smarter) Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 2:53 PM To: 'Alison Craig'; 'Matt Sullivan'; 'Joseph Lorenzini'; 'FrameMaker Forum' Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) The we in this case is a company we. So it was me. And one part time resource who

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Matt Sullivan
...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Bernard Aschwanden (Publishing Smarter) Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 2:53 PM To: 'Alison Craig'; 'Matt Sullivan'; 'Joseph Lorenzini'; 'FrameMaker Forum' Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) The we in this case

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread LW White
...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Matt Sullivan Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 3:24 PM To: 'Joseph Lorenzini'; 'FrameMaker Forum' Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) from earlier post While there's structured framemaker, dita, and a host of third party plugins can anyone

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Ed
[mailto:m...@grafixtraining.com] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 3:42 PM To: 'Ed'; 'Bernard Aschwanden (Publishing Smarter)'; 'Alison Craig'; 'FrameMaker Forum' Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) The question isn't/wasn't whether or not to structure

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Bernard Aschwanden (Publishing Smarter)
: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) Matt- People are asking why it's so hard to convert. My point is that for many solo writers, it's hard to propose a conversion to management, and get buy-in, especially when there's doc to write that's currently being delivered just

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Ed, I think you have too many experts in your list. Many of us learned the steps as novices. For example, An expert to create an EDD and/or DTD. You can learn to create an EDD by reading the FrameMaker documentation. If you are going to use DITA, FrameMaker comes with an EDD that you can

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Writer
wanted it badly enough to do it anyway. Nadine --- On Fri, 4/30/10, Ed hamonwr...@hotmail.com wrote: From: Ed hamonwr...@hotmail.com Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) To: 'Matt Sullivan' m...@grafixtraining.com, 'Bernard Aschwanden (Publishing

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Ed
I'll look at this incrementally. -=Ed. -Original Message- From: Rick Quatro [mailto:r...@rickquatro.com] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 5:01 PM To: 'Ed'; 'FrameMaker Forum' Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) Hi Ed, I think you have too many

Re: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:15:17 -0400, Ed hamonwr...@hotmail.com wrote: I went to an XSL class and was completely lost. Maybe it's changed since then, but XSL spooked me pretty well. I enjoy hacking XML and CSS, so maybe I'll look at this incrementally. You aren't the only one who finds XSLT

Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Bernard Aschwanden (Publishing Smarter)
: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) While there's structured framemaker, dita, and a host of third party plugins can anyone really say its a simple, painless, and quick process to transition from unstructured framemaker to either structured or dita? Sincerely, Joseph

Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Alison Craig
ph Lorenzini'; 'FrameMaker Forum' Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) Further to Matt's comments, I do conversion for clients, but usually 1000's of pages at a time, and sometimes it's Word, Frame, or sloppy Frame source content. In almost all cases we look fo

Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Bernard Aschwanden (Publishing Smarter)
nard -Original Message- From: Alison Craig [mailto:alison.cr...@ultrasonix.com] Sent: April-30-10 13:52 To: Bernard Aschwanden (Publishing Smarter); 'Matt Sullivan'; 'Joseph Lorenzini'; 'FrameMaker Forum' Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) &

Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Ed
n Behalf Of Bernard Aschwanden (Publishing > Smarter) > Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 2:53 PM > To: 'Alison Craig'; 'Matt Sullivan'; 'Joseph Lorenzini'; 'FrameMaker Forum' > Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) > > The "we" in this c

Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Matt Sullivan
[mailto:framers- > bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Bernard Aschwanden > (Publishing > Smarter) > Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 2:53 PM > To: 'Alison Craig'; 'Matt Sullivan'; 'Joseph Lorenzini'; 'FrameMaker Forum' > Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New

Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread LW White
at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Matt Sullivan Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 3:24 PM To: 'Joseph Lorenzini'; 'FrameMaker Forum' Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) While there's structured framemaker, dita, and a host of third party plugins can anyone really say its

Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Ed
llivan [mailto:matt at grafixtraining.com] > Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 3:42 PM > To: 'Ed'; 'Bernard Aschwanden (Publishing Smarter)'; 'Alison Craig'; > 'FrameMaker Forum' > Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) > > The question isn't/wasn't whe

Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Bernard Aschwanden (Publishing Smarter)
Maker Forum' Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) Matt- People are asking why it's so hard to convert. My point is that for many solo writers, it's hard to propose a conversion to management, and get buy-in, especially when there's doc to write that's curre

Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Ed, I think you have too many experts in your list. Many of us learned the steps as novices. For example, >An expert to create an EDD and/or DTD. You can learn to create an EDD by reading the FrameMaker documentation. If you are going to use DITA, FrameMaker comes with an EDD that you can

Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Writer
wanted it badly enough to do it anyway. Nadine --- On Fri, 4/30/10, Ed wrote: > From: Ed > Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) > To: "'Matt Sullivan'" , "'Bernard Aschwanden > (Publishing Smarter)'" , "'A

Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Ed
I'll look at this incrementally. -=Ed. > -Original Message- > From: Rick Quatro [mailto:rick at rickquatro.com] > Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 5:01 PM > To: 'Ed'; 'FrameMaker Forum' > Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) > > Hi

Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-30 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:15:17 -0400, "Ed" wrote: >I went to an XSL class and was completely lost. Maybe it's changed since >then, but XSL spooked me pretty well. I enjoy hacking XML and CSS, so maybe >I'll look at this incrementally. You aren't the only one who finds XSLT challenging! I've been

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-29 Thread Matt Sullivan
from earlier post While there's structured framemaker, dita, and a host of third party plugins can anyone really say its a simple, painless, and quick process to transition from unstructured framemaker to either structured or dita? Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-29 Thread David Spreadbury
- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Matt Sullivan Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 3:24 PM To: 'Joseph Lorenzini'; 'FrameMaker Forum' Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) from earlier post

Re: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-29 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:23:54 -0700, Matt Sullivan m...@grafixtraining.com wrote: While there's structured framemaker, dita, and a host of third party plugins can anyone really say its a simple, painless, and quick process to transition from unstructured framemaker to either structured or

RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-29 Thread Matt Sullivan
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy H. Griffith Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 2:25 PM To: 'FrameMaker Forum' Subject: Re: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:23:54 -0700, Matt Sullivan m...@grafixtraining.com wrote: While

Re: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-29 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:54:08 -0700, Matt Sullivan m...@grafixtraining.com wrote: As a point of correction... I didn't state the para you've attributed to me and I *do not* agree with it. Ah. You were quoting it. I didn't notice that, because you had omitted the usual top attribution to the

Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-29 Thread Matt Sullivan
While there's structured framemaker, dita, and a host of third party plugins can anyone really say its a simple, painless, and quick process to transition from unstructured framemaker to either structured or dita? Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini ___ Hi

Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-29 Thread David Spreadbury
- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Matt Sullivan Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 3:24 PM To: 'Joseph Lorenzini'; 'FrameMaker Forum' Subject: RE: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) While there's

Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-29 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:23:54 -0700, "Matt Sullivan" wrote: >While there's structured framemaker, dita, and a host >of third party plugins can anyone really say its a simple, >painless, and quick process to transition from unstructured >framemaker to either structured or dita? They can say

Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-29 Thread Matt Sullivan
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy H. Griffith Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 2:25 PM To: 'FrameMaker Forum' Subject: Re: Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies) On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:23:54 -0700, "Matt Sullivan" wrote: >While there

Structuring documents (was RE: Adobe's New Corporate Strategies)

2010-04-29 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:54:08 -0700, "Matt Sullivan" wrote: >As a point of correction... > >I didn't state the para you've attributed to me >and I *do not* agree with it. Ah. You were quoting it. I didn't notice that, because you had omitted the usual top attribution to the author, Joseph