At 5:31 PM -0400 5/18/07, Ann Zdunczyk wrote:
It is interesting that I have been hearing about paperless offices for years
but have yet to see one. Its like the people that say books are going away
and being replaced by electronic media. I, as a reader, plan to continue
reading PAPER books. I do
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As far as a device that you can comfortably and
safely use in the tub is
concerned, I don't think that paper will be the
delivery method of the
future.
Its estimated that 40% of the US adult population is
non-literate, which means they
Hi Gyanesh...
Each time you regenerate your book, the conditional settings in effect,
will define the content shown in the generated lists (Index and TOC
specifically).
The index is generated from index markers, and they will be used (or
not) depending on their conditional tagging. This
On Sun, 20 May 2007 13:30:45 -0700, Scott Prentice
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's a good practice to avoid conditional content within
index entries .. it's one thing to include/exclude a marker
in a specific output, but if you start messing with words
within a marker, you'll go nuts.
It's not
Thanks Jeremy .. good point! Now that I read what I wrote, I can see how
it could be misunderstood. I meant that even if you do duplicate and
conditionalize markers just to change one word in that marker, it will
become a mess to manage. :)
The Index Tools Pro plugin claims to provide for
Overall, I agree with Dan's point on how much opportunity for
a rich electronic communications environment has been overlooked.
On the other hand, who among us can be sure that there's no
alternative rich communications universe embedded in the
shorthand languages of IM and rap? Where's the
Jeremy,
Thanks - that's what I was afraid of! I was hoping to be able to use the
generic code that I use for other purposes and avoid having to write a
mapping system. Oh well.
Pat
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T:
Thanks Scott!
I think i will settle for show/hide. And if I do, is there a way to
handle index/toc/variables (such as name of the book) automatically?
Or do I do that manually?
And let's say I have to implement DITA. Can I still publish two
different PDFs selectively? And how will I carry out
Hi Dan,
Daniel Emory wrote:
It’s estimated that 40% of the US adult population is non-literate,
which means they don’t read books or newspapers. This has been
accompanied by a rapid decline in the ability of college students to
write a half-way decent paragraph in English. The California
Marcus Carr wrote:
That said though, there is truth to what you say - the real
question is
whether it matters. In my parent's day, neat cursive
handwriting was
very important. It was arguably less important in my day
and for my
daughter, it will be of little importance, as in her life,
Peter Gold wrote:
If legible cursive writing was the sole measurement of ability, I'd
be in the same boat as many doctors - floating off to oblivion.
Me too - it takes me longer to read my shopping list than to get my
groceries... ;-)
However, I'd qualify Marcus' comment about using one's
Lin Surasky wrote:
> So I'm thinking that structured FM must be able to help, in that I could
> somehow create element tags for Fixes and Issues, and then just change
> the element tag for the Issues that have been fixed and somehow
> regenerate the documents (how, I don't know -- do I need to
Ann Zdunczyk wrote:
> It is interesting that I have been hearing about paperless offices
> for years but have yet to see one. Its like the people that say books
> are going away and being replaced by electronic media. I, as a reader,
> plan to continue reading PAPER books. I do not plan to read
mcarr at allette.com.au wrote:
> Adobe will have a formidable job of keeping FrameMaker relevant,
> but like you, I hope they manage to.
But why? FM is only a tool for the creation of content. CS3 is also a content
creation tool, but does things with various content data types.
When I remarked
Alan wrote:
>> Adobe will have a formidable job of keeping FrameMaker relevant,
>> but like you, I hope they manage to.
>
> But why? FM is only a tool for the creation of content. CS3 is also
> a content creation tool, but does things with various content data
> types.
I don't really see
At 5:31 PM -0400 5/18/07, Ann Zdunczyk wrote:
>It is interesting that I have been hearing about paperless offices for years
>but have yet to see one. Its like the people that say books are going away
>and being replaced by electronic media. I, as a reader, plan to continue
>reading PAPER books. I
--- mcarr at allette.com.au wrote:
> As far as a device that you can comfortably and
> safely use in the tub is
> concerned, I don't think that paper will be the
> delivery method of the
> future.
It?s estimated that 40% of the US adult population is
non-literate, which
Hi Gyanesh...
Each time you regenerate your book, the conditional settings in effect,
will define the content shown in the generated lists (Index and TOC
specifically).
The index is generated from index markers, and they will be used (or
not) depending on their conditional tagging. This isn't
On Sun, 20 May 2007 13:30:45 -0700, Scott Prentice
wrote:
>It's a good practice to avoid conditional content within
>index entries .. it's one thing to include/exclude a marker
>in a specific output, but if you start messing with words
>within a marker, you'll go nuts.
It's not only good
Thanks Jeremy .. good point! Now that I read what I wrote, I can see how
it could be misunderstood. I meant that even if you do duplicate and
conditionalize markers just to change one word in that marker, it will
become a mess to manage. :)
The Index Tools Pro plugin claims to provide for
Overall, I agree with Dan's point on how much opportunity for
a rich electronic communications environment has been overlooked.
On the other hand, who among us can be sure that there's no
"alternative rich communications universe" embedded in the
shorthand languages of "IM" and "rap?" Where's
Jeremy,
Thanks - that's what I was afraid of! I was hoping to be able to use the
generic code that I use for other purposes and avoid having to write a
mapping system. Oh well.
Pat
--
CatBase: The Data Publishing Solution
CatBase Software Ltd.
T:
Thanks Scott!
I think i will settle for show/hide. And if I do, is there a way to
handle index/toc/variables (such as name of the book) automatically?
Or do I do that manually?
And let's say I have to implement DITA. Can I still publish two
different PDFs selectively? And how will I carry out
Marcus Carr wrote:
>
> That said though, there is truth to what you say - the real
question is
> whether it matters. In my parent's day, neat cursive
handwriting was
> very important. It was arguably less important in my day
and for my
> daughter, it will be of little importance, as in her
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