HUGE subject, but I'll just note one element:
Now I want to make changes, so it will become version 1.1. What do best practices say to do? I assume save all content, TOC, and title files as new "v1-1" files. Should I create a new "v1-1" book file into which the v1-1 content goes? Or should the
The method Alan describes works *if* the following are true ..
- you're doing a 1-to-1 conversion: FM file(s) to XML file(s). If you're
converting to DITA or some model where you're converting each FM file to
many XML files, this method doesn't work well since the target file
names are
FrameMaker will do this for you, including generating ID values. The
details are documented in the Structured Application Developer's Guide.
Basically, your conversion table should contain a rule for each
cross-reference format that may appear in the document. For example:
X:FigureAndPage. If
Thanks, I'll check out the developers guide.
Robert Carel
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From: Alan Houser [mailto:a...@groupwellesley.com]
Sent: Thursday, February
Yes! I totally agree with using variables for version numbers, release dates,
and the like, inside the documents – I was going to mention this too, but
forgot!
Similarly, NONE of the files have version numbers “encoded” in their file names.
But, since the files and book for each version are in
Hello Tim,
I do the same; just copy the contents of the whole folder, keeping the same
file names for all the chapters, .book, TOC,IX, generated files etc. I am now
on 7.23 (FM 7.2, 23rd version). Started with 4.1 in 1994 :)
Ragnar Hanas, MD
Uddevalla Hospital
Sweden
From:
Hi, guys...
I'm trying to do compare books:
File Utilities Compare Books
I get part way through, then crash with the Internal error number 11004,
25719705, 25724600, 20819128
I get a successful report when I select Summary Document Only, but crashes
when I select Summary and Compare.
Both
For unstructured, MIF2Go (which is now free open-source) worked for me.
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Hi Tim,
I prefer to do my versioning at the folder level. That way, I never have to
rename .book or .fm files. When I am ready for 1.1, I create a folder and
copy all of the 1.0 files to it. You can rename book components and
FrameMaker will resolve cross-references, etc. but I prefer
Hello,
I'm a long-time lurker sometime poster. Not particularly active on the list
because my use of Frame is pretty limited. (I am a technical trainer and I do
not follow strict version control practices, so some of this will probably make
some folks on this list bristle.) But I would love
Figured it out.
It chokes on files that have text inserts that are shared between multiple
files. I noticed that a particular file name showed on the bottom left of
the book screen when the crash message was displayed. I use a specific
naming convention for those types of files.
Once I deleted
As others have mentioned, switching to a version control system with revision
history might be a wise choice. It takes a lot of the manual work out of
keeping track of versions. Maintaining a separate folder for each release can
quickly get overwhelming, especially when you have to port changes
Rick and Syed have the meat of it. Keep it simple.
We do not use small increments, the x.1 and so forth, because we consider all
changes to the doc as major. We don't have to worry over what constitutes a
minor or major version.
On Feb 5, 2015, at 11:41, Syed Zaeem Hosain
Thank you for all of your responses! You have answered my question quite
sufficiently (except one that I'm addressing personally about a clever trick
someone does). Folders it is!
I'm also encouraged that my email hit the distribution in about an hour rather
than taking more than a day, which
Structured or unstructured FM?
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Robert Carel rca...@accela.com wrote:
Does anyone have a sample conversion table that converts FrameMaker cross
references to XML?
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