Re: [Framers] Advice on slimming down a guide; customized guides per customer??

2018-10-10 Thread Caroline Tabach
Lin thanks for getting back to me. Are there people with experience with groups? I will look up those numbering articles and think about either this suggestion, or the suggestion of using conditional text. I have to present the ideas to the SMEs next week On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 2:34 PM Lin

Re: [Framers] Advice on slimming down a guide; customized guides per customer??

2018-10-10 Thread Caroline Tabach
Currently the only thing they want to produce here is PDF, so that is an advantage. It is always useful to hear about other tools. On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 12:08 AM Robert Lauriston wrote: > Where but on a FrameMaker list would you find an expert opinion about > when it's the wrong tool for a

Re: [Framers] Advice on slimming down a guide; customized guides per customer??

2018-10-10 Thread Robert Lauriston
Where but on a FrameMaker list would you find an expert opinion about when it's the wrong tool for a particular job? Doing complicated topic reuse using FrameMaker's conditional text is possible, but it's a painful and time-consuming kludge compared with tools that make it easy to assemble multipl

Re: [Framers] Advice on slimming down a guide; customized guides per customer??

2018-10-10 Thread Richard Melanson
Why am I reading on a FrameMaker list that other products do things better ??? Even if in your opinion they do, we don't need to hear it. -Original Message- From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+rmelanson=highresbio@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Lin Sims Sent: Wednesday, Oct

Re: [Framers] Advice on slimming down a guide; customized guides per customer??

2018-10-10 Thread Lin Sims
So long as you set up a system and stick to it, managing down to the sentence level is possible. I've done it down to pluralizing words with far more complicated needs than simply marking something for a particular customer. In any case, she's not asking for advice on alternate tools, she's asking

Re: [Framers] Advice on slimming down a guide; customized guides per customer??

2018-10-10 Thread Robert Lauriston
Managing lots of conditions can get pretty gnarly at the paragraph level. Flare makes that kind of thing much easier. On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:15 AM Caroline Tabach wrote: > > That sounds good. > > > > Caroline Tabach > > בתאריך יום ד׳, 10 באוק׳ 2018, 19:19, מאת Lin Sims ‏: > > > As a thought,

Re: [Framers] Advice on slimming down a guide; customized guides per customer??

2018-10-10 Thread Caroline Tabach
That sounds good. Caroline Tabach בתאריך יום ד׳, 10 באוק׳ 2018, 19:19, מאת Lin Sims ‏: > As a thought, you could use put all the "boxes" into a chapter (family) and > control its appearance with conditions by marking the text for that "box" > with a condition named for the customer. Then all y

Re: [Framers] Advice on slimming down a guide; customized guides per customer??

2018-10-10 Thread Lin Sims
As a thought, you could use put all the "boxes" into a chapter (family) and control its appearance with conditions by marking the text for that "box" with a condition named for the customer. Then all you have to do when you create a book for a customer is set the Show Conditions to that customer's

Re: [Framers] Advice on slimming down a guide; customized guides per customer??

2018-10-10 Thread Etzel, Gary
Flare has a cloud-based component called MadCap Central that provides various, useful collaboration tools, but you don't have to buy/use that. -Original Message- From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+gary.etzel=dnvgl@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston Sent: Wednesd

Re: [Framers] Advice on slimming down a guide; customized guides per customer??

2018-10-10 Thread Robert Lauriston
Flare is old-fashioned locally installed single-user Windows software, like FrameMaker. On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 2:12 AM Caroline Tabach wrote: > > We did look into that, but my understanding is that it is cloud based and > therefore not appropriate for what we are doing. > > On Mon, Oct 8, 2018

Re: [Framers] Advice on slimming down a guide; customized guides per customer??

2018-10-10 Thread Lin Sims
My apologies if this response is late; I've been on vacation. Assuming I understand the situation you are describing, I think your best choice is number 2. There are a number of good guides that describe how to use FrameMaker's numbering blocks to set up some pretty complicated numbering schemes w