Reminder: SF Bay Area seminars (San Carlos)

2007-10-22 Thread Shlomo Perets
A few seats are still available for the FM-to-Acrobat Adv. Tech and Single Sourcing seminars. >SF Bay Area (San Carlos) -- > >FRAMEMAKER TRAINING: >* FrameMaker Template Design, Oct 29-30 >* Single Sourcing with FrameMaker, Oct 31 >* FrameMaker-to-Acrobat Advanced Techniques, Nov 1-2 > > >Visit

Good table design

2007-10-22 Thread Maxwell Hoffmann
Art, If you are working on any projects that may be translated into another language, where language expansion may occur, the following are some of the guidelines we share with our customers: In Tables: == avoid use of ALL CAPS in table header cells == avoid "rotated" (e.g. counterclockwise/ver

RE: Good table design

2007-10-22 Thread Maxwell Hoffmann
Art, If you are working on any projects that may be translated into another language, where language expansion may occur, the following are some of the guidelines we share with our customers: In Tables: == avoid use of ALL CAPS in table header cells == avoid "rotated" (e.g. counterclockwise/ver

Re: Good table design

2007-10-22 Thread Stuart Rogers
Art Campbell wrote: Anyone run across any articles / books / etc. that have hints / tips / tricks/ guidelines for effectively presenting information in tables? For use both on-screen and printed. In general, these are tables that contain text, not numbers. "Presenting Numbers, Tables, and Ch

Reminder: SF Bay Area seminars (San Carlos)

2007-10-22 Thread Shlomo Perets
A few seats are still available for the FM-to-Acrobat Adv. Tech and Single Sourcing seminars. SF Bay Area (San Carlos) -- FRAMEMAKER TRAINING: * FrameMaker Template Design, Oct 29-30 * Single Sourcing with FrameMaker, Oct 31 * FrameMaker-to-Acrobat Advanced Techniques, Nov 1-2 Visit http:

Good table design

2007-10-22 Thread Stuart Rogers
Art Campbell wrote: > Anyone run across any articles / books / etc. that have hints / tips / > tricks/ guidelines for effectively presenting information in tables? > > For use both on-screen and printed. > > In general, these are tables that contain text, not numbers. > "Presenting Numbers, Tab

Good table design

2007-10-22 Thread Art Campbell
Anyone run across any articles / books / etc. that have hints / tips / tricks/ guidelines for effectively presenting information in tables? For use both on-screen and printed. In general, these are tables that contain text, not numbers. Thanks, Art -- Art Campbell

First on market (was RE: radical revamping of techpubs)

2007-10-22 Thread Bill Swallow
First to market only works until the second one to market arrives, at which point it then the market share leans toward the company who demonstrates best understanding of the market through their product coupled with the best marketing team. On 10/22/07, Pinkham, Jim wrote: > There's something to

radical revamping of techpubs

2007-10-22 Thread Combs, Richard
Technical Writer wrote: > but otherwise not particularly useful." To believe that a > secondary industry is necessary to assure an acceptable level > of quality in production is impoverished. Quality goods can > be produced by motivated, competent workers without a QA overseer. And later: > Y

RE: radical revamping of techpubs

2007-10-22 Thread Combs, Richard
Technical Writer wrote: > but otherwise not particularly useful." To believe that a > secondary industry is necessary to assure an acceptable level > of quality in production is impoverished. Quality goods can > be produced by motivated, competent workers without a QA overseer. And later: >

Good table design

2007-10-22 Thread Art Campbell
Anyone run across any articles / books / etc. that have hints / tips / tricks/ guidelines for effectively presenting information in tables? For use both on-screen and printed. In general, these are tables that contain text, not numbers. Thanks, Art -- Art Campbell

First on market (was RE: radical revamping of techpubs)

2007-10-22 Thread Pinkham, Jim
There's something to be said for a first-mover advantage, but I'm increasingly less inclined to believe that it's "huge." For some companies and some products, it might be worth as little as 90 days. For many, perhaps a year. But companies that focus on widespread utility, pay heed to excellence in

RE: radical revamping of techpubs

2007-10-22 Thread John Hedtke
Yes. I'm a Eudora user for the last 12 years and I tend to eschew HTML mail. At 07:10 AM 10/22/2007, Chris Borokowski wrote: From my experience, HTML-encoded email seems to screw up more than it helps. Stick to good ol 7-bit ASCII. --- John Hedtke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, no, th

radical revamping of techpubs

2007-10-22 Thread John Hedtke
Yes. I'm a Eudora user for the last 12 years and I tend to eschew HTML mail. At 07:10 AM 10/22/2007, Chris Borokowski wrote: > From my experience, HTML-encoded email seems to screw up more than it >helps. Stick to good ol 7-bit ASCII. > >--- John Hedtke wrote: > > > Actually, no, that's not the

How would you organize these documents?

2007-10-22 Thread Martinek, Carla
-Original Message- How would you maintain these files? Conditional text? Separate books? Short Answer: Yes to both. Long Answer: You're thinking about this the correct way. Break apart your content into topical files (or modules). Then, within the modules, use conditio

Re: First on market (was RE: radical revamping of techpubs)

2007-10-22 Thread Bill Swallow
First to market only works until the second one to market arrives, at which point it then the market share leans toward the company who demonstrates best understanding of the market through their product coupled with the best marketing team. On 10/22/07, Pinkham, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > T

RE: radical revamping of techpubs

2007-10-22 Thread Chris Borokowski
>From my experience, HTML-encoded email seems to screw up more than it helps. Stick to good ol 7-bit ASCII. --- John Hedtke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, no, that's not the case, Gillian; Tekwryter's emails > directly to me have been well-formatted. I think this is more an > effect of

radical revamping of techpubs

2007-10-22 Thread Chris Borokowski

RE: First on market (was RE: radical revamping of techpubs)

2007-10-22 Thread Pinkham, Jim
There's something to be said for a first-mover advantage, but I'm increasingly less inclined to believe that it's "huge." For some companies and some products, it might be worth as little as 90 days. For many, perhaps a year. But companies that focus on widespread utility, pay heed to excellence in

RE: Word tables to FM Tables?

2007-10-22 Thread Radha Padmanabhan
Hi, Thanks for the help. Hi Jim, the link http://www.techknowledgecorp.com/public/word2frame.pdf was a great help. Carey, I'm afraid I do not use frame script. Jerilynne had suggested to convert the Word tables to tab delimited text, then copy/paste them using the Paste > Spec

Re: How would you organize these documents?

2007-10-22 Thread Cheryl Dwyer
I have a similar situation and I do a combination of conditional text and separate books. When I make the final PDF copies, I change out the title page for each separate book, show the correct conditional text, update the book, and create the PDF for the customers. In my case, most of the text i

RE: How would you organize these documents?

2007-10-22 Thread Martinek, Carla
-Original Message- How would you maintain these files? Conditional text? Separate books? Short Answer: Yes to both. Long Answer: You're thinking about this the correct way. Break apart your content into topical files (or modules). Then, within the modules, use conditio