Switching to Structured FrameMaker

2009-12-14 Thread Randall C. Reed
-Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Allison Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 9:44 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Switching to Structured FrameMaker I've gotten some wonderf

RE: Switching to Structured FrameMaker

2009-12-14 Thread Randall C. Reed
-Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Allison Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 9:44 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Switching to Structured FrameMaker I've gotten some wonderful respon

Switching to Structured FrameMaker

2009-12-10 Thread Barry Kieffer
-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Allison Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 6:44 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Switching to Structured FrameMaker If you hire a new person and they don't know structured Frame

RE: Switching to Structured FrameMaker

2009-12-10 Thread Barry Kieffer
...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Allison Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 6:44 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Switching to Structured FrameMaker If you hire a new person and they don't know structured FrameMaker, how

Switching to Structured FrameMaker

2009-12-10 Thread Nancy Allison
I've gotten some wonderful responses both on the list and privately. I'd begun to think that, since a lot of my clients rely on freelancers who come and go, structured FrameMaker might be the way to ensure consistency across documents. Then it occurred to me, how hard is it to get writers on bo

Switching to Structured FrameMaker

2009-12-10 Thread Fei Min Lorente
ht increase it. I really love structured over unstructured; does it show? ;-) Fei Min Lorente -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Allison Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 9:44 AM To: framers at lists.frame

RE: Switching to Structured FrameMaker

2009-12-10 Thread Fei Min Lorente
ht increase it. I really love structured over unstructured; does it show? ;-) Fei Min Lorente -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Allison Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 9:44 AM To: framers@lists.frameusers.co

Switching to Structured FrameMaker

2009-12-10 Thread Fred Wersan
--What was your documentation situation? (How many product lines, how many publications, how much single-sourcing, how much translation?) > I am a single writer documenting 8 products =~ 16 books and 10 or so online help systems, with a fair degree of text reuse, plus occasional contract manu

Re: Switching to Structured FrameMaker

2009-12-10 Thread Nancy Allison
I've gotten some wonderful responses both on the list and privately. I'd begun to think that, since a lot of my clients rely on freelancers who come and go, structured FrameMaker might be the way to ensure consistency across documents. Then it occurred to me, how hard is it to get writers on bo

Re: Switching to Structured FrameMaker

2009-12-10 Thread Fred Wersan
--What was your documentation situation? (How many product lines, how many publications, how much single-sourcing, how much translation?) > I am a single writer documenting 8 products =~ 16 books and 10 or so online help systems, with a fair degree of text reuse, plus occasional contract manu

Switching to Structured FrameMaker

2009-12-09 Thread Fei Min Lorente
From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Allison Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 2:09 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Switching to Structured FrameMaker Hi, all. With regard to structured FrameMaker, I am ver

RE: Switching to Structured FrameMaker

2009-12-09 Thread Fei Min Lorente
e- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Allison Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 2:09 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Switching to Structured FrameMaker Hi, all. With regard to structured FrameMaker, I am very late

Switching to Structured FrameMaker

2009-12-09 Thread Art Campbell
reate new ditamaps to reorganize the topics. It took us only > a couple of hours to recreate the deliverables. > > Nadine > > --- On Wed, 12/9/09, Eichelberger, Mark > wrote: > > > From: Eichelberger, Mark > > Subject: RE: Switching to Structured FrameMaker > >

Switching to Structured FrameMaker

2009-12-09 Thread Eichelberger, Mark
009 2:09 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Switching to Structured FrameMaker Hi, all. With regard to structured FrameMaker, I am very late to the party. In fact, I have never used it yet. There's a good chance I'll be asked to investigate whether it would be useful to my cu

Switching to Structured FrameMaker

2009-12-09 Thread Nancy Allison
Hi, all. With regard to structured FrameMaker, I am very late to the party. In fact, I have never used it yet. There's a good chance I'll be asked to investigate whether it would be useful to my current client. I thought I'd get a head start on the issues by asking for information from people

Re: Switching to Structured FrameMaker

2009-12-09 Thread Art Campbell
e new ditamaps to reorganize the topics. It took us only > a couple of hours to recreate the deliverables. > > Nadine > > --- On Wed, 12/9/09, Eichelberger, Mark > wrote: > > > From: Eichelberger, Mark > > Subject: RE: Switching to Structured FrameMaker > &g

RE: Switching to Structured FrameMaker

2009-12-09 Thread Writer
ark > Subject: RE: Switching to Structured FrameMaker > To: framers@lists.frameusers.com > Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 3:10 PM > As it turns out, I was about to ask > this list the exact same question. > We also have always used unstructured FM, but with the > recent > integra

Switching to Structured FrameMaker

2009-12-09 Thread Writer
ark > Subject: RE: Switching to Structured FrameMaker > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 3:10 PM > As it turns out, I was about to ask > this list the exact same question. > We also have always used unstructured FM, but with the > recent > i

RE: Switching to Structured FrameMaker

2009-12-09 Thread Eichelberger, Mark
2:09 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Switching to Structured FrameMaker Hi, all. With regard to structured FrameMaker, I am very late to the party. In fact, I have never used it yet. There's a good chance I'll be asked to investigate whether it would be useful to my cu

Switching to Structured FrameMaker

2009-12-09 Thread Nancy Allison
Hi, all. With regard to structured FrameMaker, I am very late to the party. In fact, I have never used it yet. There's a good chance I'll be asked to investigate whether it would be useful to my current client. I thought I'd get a head start on the issues by asking for information from people