Just yesterday I dove again into the Frame 7.2 structure folder, looked at all of the files - DTD, EDD, MOD, etc. Started reading the XML cookbook, and you know what? It's just not worth it to me as a solo writer.
Copy and paste is easy and free (unless you're on a 3G iPhone...), and if the company's going to invest in my job (which they're not), I'd much rather it be a salary increase. Some of my work includes creating one-page "cheat sheets" in Adobe Illustrator, and that's one-way content; I'm pretty sure you can't import XML into Illustrator. I do see the benefits of the structured approach - I did it at a prior job - but the barrier to entry is just way too high if you're the only one that's going to be implementing it. -=Ed. > -----Original Message----- > From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers- > boun...@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 is a company we. So it was me. And one part time > resource who did a few hours of work on things I didn't want > to work with. A lot of review or fixes to content the client had flagged as a > possible concern. In this specific case the content > was a collection of references for command line info, but it had a pattern. > Once we id'd it all and knew what went where it was > mostly painless. And the "we" has years and years of experience on all this. > I've worked with Frame since 1992 and with structured > FrameMaker (FrameBuilder at the time) since then as well. > > Writers who simply need to use the DITA stuff, not convert it, set it up, > develop templates, and lots more can learn the basics > pretty quickly. There are good and bad to go with it, but all in all it's not > a bad system. Once you know what you can (and cannot) > do it's pretty smooth. > > Bernard _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.