Hi, I remember that Jeremy Griffith from Omni Systems (the developer of Mif2Go) had tried to do that: conversion to MIF and comparison to previous versions. However, he was not sucessful. MIF code contains too much formatting code which is not relevant for the reader.
Maybe you could test an export to Text or HTML instead. Best regards Winfried -----Original Message----- From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+wreng=tycoint....@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Scott Prentice Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2016 2:37 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: [Framers] ExtendScript for save as text, for Git usage ? I wouldn't wish that on anyone. While MIF is a wonderful format for an ASCII description of a FM file, it's really not intended for human consumption. First off, it's not linear. Each FM object is defined in a section, and within that section the objects are declared in reasonably orderly fashion, but it's really complicated to jump from one object to another (as happens from paragraphs to tables). Also, within a section, say the main body of content, you may notice that the strings aren't always complete. You can have a sentence fragment that ends in the middle of a word .. then continues in the next block. This makes it really hard to search for things since they may be split. What you want is some sort of MIF-normalizer, that can make it more user friendly. But, I don't think that really exists. There is a tool called MIF-Muncher (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.stc-2Dcarolina.org_MIF-2BMuncher&d=CwICAg&c=0YGvTs3tT-VMy8_v51yLDw&r=pdk93NJbIWwQmLZh1EZCoC4wFNMwWj1dp-sJbkswCLE&m=BkD7Yk4w5mHjRd2IHGLDpqa2we3r8jWIO3qWOHDuHnQ&s=mYDUQJGxXmBvjoTPj629pThr5yQ-kj8Fxi1ya1Hcnms&e= ) .. that helps with scanning for various objects in a MIF .. but I don't know that it'll work on a modern system. I made a tool that converts MIF into MIFML (an XML representation of a MIF) and back, but that doesn't make it any easier to read. MIFs are great but can also be a very scary place to hang out for much time. :o Cheers, ...scott On 6/7/16 5:17 PM, Monique Semp wrote: >> Do you really find it useful to diff MIF files very often? > > Well, I haven't done it yet because it'd involve so much extra manual > work. But what I'd like to be able to do is simply scroll through the > commit list in my Git client (SourceTree on Windows) and have the > diffs show automatically, just as they do for source code. And with > MIF files, that'd be possible. > > I have noticed, though, that the MIF files are *much* larger than the > corresponding FM files (a 197 KB FM file became a 952 KB MIF file!), > so now that I see this, I might rethink it. > > But as one more tool to make it easier to see what's been done to a > particular file, in a way that's not even possible in the > FM/FrameMaker view, I'd really like to try it. > > -Monique ________________________________ This e-mail contains privileged and confidential information intended for the use of the addressees named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in respect of any information contained in it. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail and immediately destroy this e-mail and its attachments. _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com
