The problem is that XML and by extention XHTML describe content, not
presentation or formatting. HTML is designed to present data in a
formatted state (XHTML is designed to allow the content author to
define the structure and presentation). But HTML does not have the
control built into it for p
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Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:35 PM
To: Frame Users
Subject: Re: MadCap Blaze
Sharon:
At Friday, 21/03/2008, 11:07 AM;, you wrote:
>you also have short line control,
Sharon:
At Friday, 21/03/2008, 11:07 AM;, you wrote:
>you also have short line control, missing from FrameMaker.
Is that the same as widows and orphans? Or is it when a small word,
say "all", turns over onto a new line at the end of a paragraph? If
the latter, in FM most people just put a no
Sharon:
I concur with Bill. What I cannot understand is that this was trumpeted as a
FrameMaker killer yet its functionality falls far below. FM is very
powerful but
still needs a lot of work. For one, the presence of so many indexing add-ons
indicates that better indexing and index managemen
In fact, we have these features and in fact you have the sort of control - and
in some cases, more control - you expect from an app designed for "print". For
example, you also have short line control, missing from FrameMaker.
Really.
Quoting William Gaffga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> leading ... ker
leading ... kerning ... tracking ... ligatures ... this kinda stuff (and
more) is something you expect from "print". HTML, even with the aid of
CSS, is not going to be able to give you the control of these that you
would get from an app designed for "print".
Sharon Burton wrote:
> Can you help
Vendor post
Forgive me - these are straight questions. I really don't quite understand.
What's convoluted about getting printed output out of XML, HTML, or
XHTML topics
in Blaze?
You create topics, you define and assign style sheets to topics (you can also
have multiple style sheets in
For a product that is supposedly Print oriented, HTML is a lousy
media to produce it in. There is no reason to use HTML. Even XHTML is
not the best route, nor is XML. While HTML and XHTML are presentation
based, they don't allow the same type of easy manipulation that
FrameMaker or even Word a
n detail.
And, yes, our UI is very different. Some people love it, some don't.
sharon
Sharon Burton
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From: Bill Swallow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: MadCap Blaz
> Some clarifications: Blaze is the younger sister of Flare 4. If you need
> complex print and online docs, then you want Flare 4. If you only need
> printed output, then you want Blaze. Everything that's in Blaze will be in
> Flare 4.
I really don't understand this, I'm not trying to be diffi
Vendor Post
I've been at WritersUA and away from my personal email since Sunday. I got
back late last night. I'm the product manager for Blaze. (BTW - great
conference!)
Some clarifications: Blaze is the younger sister of Flare 4. If you need
complex print and online docs, then you want F
> Sharon Burton, from MadCap, did a presentation at our last STC meeting. She
> said that Blaze was for people who only did print publishing and Flare was
> for print and help files etc.
This was one of the disconnects I had. Why only print? Who does only
print these days? Even FrameMaker out of
htmare in FrameMaker.
Catherine Woods
Senior Documentation Specialist
Polycom Canada
Burnaby, BC
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Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 9:33 AM
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Subject: RE: MadCap Blaze
I downloaded it. Underwhelmed.
We purchased Flare in our move away from WebWorks Publisher Pro and I am
just starting to learn it. I looked at Blaze and was shocked that it
looked identical to Flare and that I had no idea how to go about making
a book. Never have I acquired a DTP, layout or tex
Flato, Gillian wrote:
> She said that Madcap was creating a CMS first, and then it was going
> to make Blaze and Flare DITA compatible. I told her that in my
> opinion, that was a bad plan. They will never be competitive with
> Frame until they do DITA, and no one is going to buy a CMS when they
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Subject: RE: MadCap Blaze
Sharon Burton, from MadCap, did a presentation at our last STC meeting. She
said that Blaze was for people who only did print publishing and Flare was
for print and help files etc.
Both Blaze and Flare make you write in a topic-oriented way, yet it
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Subject: Re: MadCap Blaze
Am 19.03.2
Am 19.03.2008 um 17:05 schrieb Rick Henkel:
> Flare has more than Blaze. Kind of like Flare : Blaze ::
> Acrobat : Reader
They must have something up their sleeve... or why did they once
position Blaze as FrameMaker killer? You wouldn't expect a serious
company to exaggerate things like t
> Flare has more than Blaze? Ir did you mean that the other way around?
>
>
Flare has more than Blaze. Kind of like Flare : Blaze :: Acrobat : Reader
Rick
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> Blaze essentially IS Flare in that, if I remember correctly, all the
> functionality in Blaze is also in Flare. Flare then has additional
> publishing functionality.
Flare has more than Blaze? Ir did you mean that the other way around?
Either way, I'm kind of stumped why Blaze wasn't just ma
> Blaze appears to be a variant of Flare. It isn't an authoring tool so much as
> a conversion tool. It seems not to know
> if its main thrust is HTML or XML, and it seems to lean heavily toward HTML.
>
Blaze essentially IS Flare in that, if I remember correctly, all the
functionality in B
I honestly came to the same conclusions about Blaze. I don't see it
being that much different from Flare at all. I was also disappointed
that it wasn't true XML (it's XHTML) and that it's not DITA capable
from what I've seen. IMO it's not an alternative to FM at all.
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:30
Hi Scott,
I downloaded and installed it as well, but there was no documentation to
speak of. The interface was anything but intuitive so I uninstalled it. When
they have some kind of tutorial available, I may try it again.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
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www.frameexpert.com
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