Text insets work fine in Structured Frame (but not so well if you're
going to XML). If you are staying in Structured FM files, you might want
to look into using InsetPlus from West Street Consulting
(http://weststreetconsulting.com/WSC_InsetPlus.htm). This lets you do
"insets" at the element level rather than the standard restriction of
insets at the file level. (This works very much like the "conref"
mechanism in DITA.) Also .. the plugin is free!
...scott
Scott Prentice
Leximation, Inc.
www.leximation.com
+1.415.485.1892
Rene Stephenson wrote:
Carla,
Thanks for your detailed insight! We're looking at a move to structured FM when
the product line stabilizes. Should I be inferring from your statement that
text insets don't play well in Structured FM? (Excuse me if my ignorance is
showing...)
Most (if not all) of the other places that we use text insets, we've kept the
file to the smallest chunk possible and tried to avoid using anything above the
body text level of formatting. But, a few of the text insets are used in over a
dozen different places. Working around those as topical files at the book level
could become a very involved slice-and-dice operation. Is that what's really
necessary in all instances of text insets toward structure, or would using
topical setup only for the chunks that are heavily condition tagged suffice?
Thanks
Rene
"Martinek, Carla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:We create a intro page (FrontPage)
for each chapter, and then link in
the topical files behind it. It works for us. (...)
We set this up with the expectation that we will be moving to structured
content (XML/DITA), and topical is the way to go for that. Also, once
we move the topical content to XML, our Tech Support Help Desk will
easily be able to grab and reuse the content for their needs.
-Carla
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