Gary Schnabl wrote:
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Gary Schnabl wrote:
Why should tables present problems?
Because conversions often have unintended and unexpected consequences.
One cannot simply assume that there won't be any problems, or at least
no annoying cleanup work required. There certainly is some cleanup
required for the Tips, Notes, and Cautions, which use tables for
layout. The current use of frames for figures needs cleanup in the
wiki, too, so perhaps tables will be less (or at least no more) of a
nuisance -- but without testing, who knows?...
Chapter 4, in its original form, already had one or more tables serving
a similar function that you fear might be problematic. So why should
tables be problematic in one case and not in another when their
functionality is the same for both uses?
Tables for layout purposes (not data) *are* problems when converted to wiki
format; the ones we have already have needed a lot of cleanup -- so that is
a *known* problem. Perhaps not a show-stopper (like FrameMaker locking up),
but definitely a problem.
For another, our Note/Tip/Caution entries are tables.
I *said* that myself, in the note quoted above. And I said they needed
cleanup in the wiki.
The Caution table
already has a graphic and nothing was ever broken on that count, I
reckon because we have been using the Caution table for years without
incident that I'm cognizant of.
Wrong. See above. I assume you have not done any cleanup of the wiki
conversion of our files. I have.
When one has two ways (or more) of doing things and one has problems
(i.e., OOo frames) and the other doesn't (OOo tables doing the same
function as OOo frames), why use the problem child???
Any tables used for layout are problem children when sent to play in the
wiki. Whether they are more, or less, of a problem than frames, I don't
know. *That* is why I keep insisting your idea needs testing rather than
blithely assuming no problems.
I have posted the improved table version of Chapter 4, and anybody can
compare the two and decide for (xxx)self which seems better, worse, or
the same...
I don't have the time or energy to do the testing of wiki conversion, so I
hope someone else will.
--Jean
