Subject: RE: roundtrip documentation and help (Framemaker/Robohelp -
chickenoregg?
Ben Hechter wrote:
If you had to design roundtrip documentation and help
(Framemaker/Robohelp) for a constantly evolving product, would you:
a) begin in Framemaker and export to Robohelp
b) begin
If Jim Owens is right, and there are desirable help features that
can't
be implemented via FM, then these are shortcomings in the tools that
ought to be put on the enhancement request list. But, IMHO, make the
HTML roundtrippable should not be one of those requests.
Every tool has it's
As I have no idea what this conversation is about (great way to open a
discussion in which I offer my thoughts!), I googled round-trip and
the Wikipedia definition says something along the lines of (no, wait,
it's actually a direct quote):
The term round-trip is commonly used in document
That sounds about right to me. In the DITA world, round-tripping might
mean that you could write your document in Frame, export it to XML, edit
the XML in some other editor, then bring it back into Frame with the
edits intact.
Single-sourcing, on the other hand, is a one-way operation where
You left out the is between Dying and to.
Thomas Schmidt
-Original Message-
Dying to sit at the grown-ups table,
Deirdre
The Customer Rules! You call, we JUMP!
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> Sent: 2008-05-21 11:57
> To: bhechter at objectives.ca; framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: RE: roundtrip documentation and help (Framemaker/Robohelp -
chickenoregg?
>
> Ben Hechter wrote:
>
> > If you had to design roundtrip documentation and help
> >
>
> If Jim Owens is right, and there are desirable help features that
can't
> be implemented via FM, then these are shortcomings in the tools that
> ought to be put on the enhancement request list. But, IMHO, "make the
> HTML roundtrippable" should not be one of those requests.
>
Every tool has
As I have no idea what this conversation is about (great way to open a
discussion in which I offer my thoughts!), I googled "round-trip" and
the Wikipedia definition says something along the lines of (no, wait,
it's actually a direct quote):
"The term round-trip is commonly used in document
That sounds about right to me. In the DITA world, "round-tripping" might
mean that you could write your document in Frame, export it to XML, edit
the XML in some other editor, then bring it back into Frame with the
edits intact.
Single-sourcing, on the other hand, is a one-way operation where
You left out the "is" between "Dying" and "to".
Thomas Schmidt
-Original Message-
Dying to sit at the grown-ups table,
Deirdre
The Customer Rules! You call, we JUMP!
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