In the days of WebWorks, IIRC, there was a feature or add-on that enabled something like being able to comment FM files, that had been converted to HTML, and perhaps also make changes to the content, then round-trip those changed files back to FM. Perhaps I'm only dreaming.
Have you found the Track Changes and Track Text Edits features in FM inadequate in some ways? Regards, Peter _______________________ Peter Gold On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Monique Semp <monique.s...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Ok, ok—I'll abandon the idea of comparing MIFs. Clearly I didn't realize > the complexity (or pointlessness) of the effort. My tiny bit of MIF > knowledge, along with a bunch of unfounded assumptions, led me down the > wrong path. > > But I do like the idea of saving as TXT, which supports what I really > want: the ability to see what I changed in the actual user instructions. > All the formatting stuff isn't what I'd want out of a diff. If I've made a > bunch of formatting changes, they'd be in the templates, and I'd have > included a relevant comment in the Git commit. And the TXT files seem quite > small, so not a space hog on the Git server. > > So, my request now is whether anyone has an ExtendScript to automatically > save files as TXT. I'm not sure if the best approach would be to auto-save > a file as TXT anytime the file's saved as FM (whether explicitly by ctrl-S > or because I've said Yes to saving when I close a file or a book), to > auto-save all a book's files whenever I close the book (but sometimes I'd > have just a file open, such as a Text Inset file), or what? > > Thanks for the education, > -Monique > > _______________________________________________ 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
