Unstructured to structured FM?

2012-03-24 Thread Laura Fergusson
Hi all My boss has mentioned the possibility of transferring our unstructured Frame docs to structured XML format. I have NO experience of structured FM and to be honest I'm a bit intimidated by it! (Boss is technical but knows little about tech writing tools btw) He thinks that it will make

automating FrameMaker 10 + RoboHelp 9 build

2012-03-24 Thread Robert Lauriston
I'm looking into automating a time-consuming build process and am curious if anyone has done this successfully. I know how to do it (I've done similar things in the past with DZbatcher, ANT, etc.), I just don't want to start the project if I know that it's not possible, or if these are the wrong

Re: Automatic ligatures

2012-03-24 Thread Mike Wickham
So the questions are these: 1. Does version 10 do automatic ligatures? No. 2. Is version 8 compatible with Windows XP? Yes Mike Wickham ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to

RE: Automatic ligatures

2012-03-24 Thread Fred Ridder
You wrote: I am not exactly a newbie, been using FrameMaker since version 4. I am currently on version 8. The program, working in a Windows XP environment, does everything I need it to do, So the questions are these: 2. Is version 8 compatible with Windows XP? Since you say

RE: Keep paragraph with table

2012-03-24 Thread Combs, Richard
Timothy DeWees wrote: I've got a very large document where we are using a table with no title to handle two-column text. Often, the separated title will be a heading 3 or 4, etc.  How can I get the heading 3 paragraph to stay with the table below it rather than breaking across a page? I

Automatic ligatures

2012-03-24 Thread Mike Wickham
> So the questions are these: > > 1. Does version 10 do automatic ligatures? > No. > 2. Is version 8 compatible with Windows XP? > > Yes Mike Wickham

Automatic ligatures

2012-03-24 Thread Fred Ridder
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Keep paragraph with table

2012-03-24 Thread Combs, Richard
Timothy DeWees wrote: > I've got a very large document where we are using a table with no title > to handle two-column text. Often, the separated "title" will be a > heading 3 or 4, etc.? How can I get the heading 3 paragraph to stay > with the table below it rather than breaking across a page? I

Automatic ligatures

2012-03-24 Thread Matanya Ophee
On 24/03/2012 12:03 AM, Fred Ridder wrote: > > 2. Is version 8 compatible with Windows XP? > Since you say that you are currently using FrameMaker 8 with Windows XP, > I assume that you meant to ask whether FrameMaker *10* is compatible > with Windows XP. Correct. I mistyped. > The answer to

Unstructured to structured FM?

2012-03-24 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
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Unstructured to structured FM?

2012-03-24 Thread Joseph Lorenzini
hy not look at using a wiki? > > Note that all of the suggestions I have provided is significantly cheaper > than converting to structured XML authoring and will NOT disrupt your > current workflow. > > Any other questions, just let me know. > > Sincerely, > Joseph