Susan,
Follow these steps:
1) Insert a new table into the FrameMaker document. Apply the correct format
to each cell of the first header row, the first body row, and first footer
row (if you have one). Resize the columns to how you would normally want
them.
2) Choose Table Table Designer.
So the question is, which English do we standardize on?
I would ask some combination of marketing, product management, and
support to decide. Eventually it comes down to maximizing revenue and
reducing support costs.
Mike
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You are currently
My coworker and I use unstructured Frame 7.2. We've been struggling with
this problem: When I open a file last saved by my coworker, the word spacing
in one or more paragraphs has changed, resulting in layout changes (orphans
and widows). The same thing happens to my coworker-when she opens a file
This is off topic, but something that we all must come across as
writers. Who should be responsible for the final proofing of the
documents you write? Should it ever be the writer?
Natalie Bircher
Documentation Specialist
Dairyland Healthcare Solutions
Phone: 320-634-3841
Fax:
In practical terms, it should be the person who gets zinged if there's
a mistake and/or the person in the organization with the best spelling
and grammar skills.
If you're asking a process question, I'd say no, it should never be
the writer because he/she has looked at the copy too much to look
Hi Natalie,
It is bad practice for a writer or typesetter to proofread their own work. I
worked at one shop where you would get fired for doing so. You always handed
the document off to a professional staff proofreader.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com
This is
Good Day Art and Natalie,
If you are looking at only spelling and grammar, perhaps. However, the problems
encountered at our site deal more with content (complete procedures, no link
from the help file to an application's Help buttons, lack of option and data
column descriptions, and more) and
I am a lone writer, so I am ultimately responsible for the docs. I have no
editor, proofreader, or any suport whatever. I try to get someone from QA to go
over everything, but that seldom happens. Even when it does, I go over it
myself.
The problem is that a non-writer can get quite
Denise,
I don't totally disagree with your contention, but proofreading is one
thing... and content / structural editing, fact-checking, and quality
assurance, the topics that you touch upon are something else. I'm
intentionally defining proofreading in a narrow, traditional way.
The problems
Cybele,
This is most likely due to different fonts being used on the two
separate machines. It is most likely due to you each printing to a
different printer using a different driver. Try closing out of
FrameMaker on both machines, set Adobe PDF/Distiller as your default
printer. Open
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unlocked the secret!
Jing Torralba
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> They write their manuals the English way* (i.e. colour, theatre etc.)
> and we write the American way** (color, theater). In 2007, I will be
> working on a project with them so the docset will be split up between
> their local tech writer and me.
> So the question is, which English
Susan,
Follow these steps:
1) Insert a new table into the FrameMaker document. Apply the correct format
to each cell of the first header row, the first body row, and first footer
row (if you have one). Resize the columns to how you would normally want
them.
2) Choose Table > Table Designer.
>So the question is, which English do we standardize on?
I would ask some combination of marketing, product management, and
support to decide. Eventually it comes down to maximizing revenue and
reducing support costs.
Mike
My coworker and I use unstructured Frame 7.2. We've been struggling with
this problem: When I open a file last saved by my coworker, the word spacing
in one or more paragraphs has changed, resulting in layout changes (orphans
and widows). The same thing happens to my coworker-when she opens a file
This is off topic, but something that we all must come across as
writers. Who should be responsible for the final proofing of the
documents you write? Should it ever be the writer?
Natalie Bircher
Documentation Specialist
Dairyland Healthcare Solutions
Phone: 320-634-3841
Fax:
In practical terms, it should be the person who gets zinged if there's
a mistake and/or the person in the organization with the best spelling
and grammar skills.
If you're asking a process question, I'd say no, it should never be
the writer because he/she has looked at the copy too much to look
Hi Natalie,
It is bad practice for a writer or typesetter to proofread their own work. I
worked at one shop where you would get fired for doing so. You always handed
the document off to a professional staff proofreader.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com
This is
Do you or your coworker get any "Unavailable language" or "Unavailable font"
messages when you open the document?
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com
> My coworker and I use unstructured Frame 7.2. We've been struggling with
> this problem: When I open a file last
Good Day Art and Natalie,
If you are looking at only spelling and grammar, perhaps. However, the problems
encountered at our site deal more with content (complete procedures, no link
from the help file to an application's Help buttons, lack of option and data
column descriptions, and more) and
I am a lone writer, so I am ultimately responsible for the docs. I have no
editor, proofreader, or any suport whatever. I try to get someone from QA to go
over everything, but that seldom happens. Even when it does, I go over it
myself.
The problem is that a non-writer can get quite exhausted
Denise,
I don't totally disagree with your contention, but proofreading is one
thing... and content / structural editing, fact-checking, and quality
assurance, the topics that you touch upon are something else. I'm
intentionally defining "proofreading" in a narrow, traditional way.
The problems
What you have described is much deeper than what I
would call proofreading. I would put some it under the
heading of SME content review (which shouldn't get
sidetracked in issues of grammar or punctuation), and
most of it under editing (which really has several of its
own subcategories).
No
Assuming that you are not getting any "Unavailable font" messages
as Rick has suggested, there are a couple of other things to consider.
What do each of you have set as your default printer? On Windows
platforms the font metrics (the precise dimensions of every glyph and
space that is produced
Cybele,
This is most likely due to different fonts being used on the two
separate machines. It is most likely due to you each printing to a
different printer using a different driver. Try closing out of
FrameMaker on both machines, set Adobe PDF/Distiller as your default
printer. Open
Fred, I agree with your philosophy.
Of course we all try to do our best to write it right the first time,
but things will escape us, and there will always be "better choices"
that could be made (such as a more common example).
The writer should definitely do a spell check and re-read what they
To all who gave their ideas on Unlocking Pgf Locked, thanks. Richard Combs
unlocked the secret!
Jing Torralba
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