--- "Linda G. Gallagher"
wrote:
> I only use that type of numbering when a client
> insists on it. Typically,
> those clients are engineers with content targeting
> other engineers.
==
The complaint that prompted Ms. Gallagher's response
was that multi-level
--- "Linda G. Gallagher"
wrote:
> I don't think it was necessary to single out my
> response and call what I
> said laughable.
Your unqualified statement that the only people left
who use such numbering schemes are engineers
communicating with other engineers is
--- Anne Robotti wrote:
> Is this a private email from Linda that you posted
> to the list? How
> completely rude.
=
My mistake, and I apologize to Linda. The Framer's
list, unlike some others, identifies the sender's
name, not the list's name as the sender. My default
--- Steve Rickaby
wrote:
> Surely the answer here is 'horses for courses'?
> There are many areas where numbering is either
> appropriate or essential (engineering manuals,legal
> documents, political documents, medical documents,
> repair manuals, ya-de-yah), and others where it is
> not. Legal
wrote:
> I've got one for you I am making hypertext links
> active in the PDF
> output by using a "message URL" hypertext marker. I
> use a character tag
> to identify the text to include in the link. This
> has worked fine for me
> in the past in unstructured docs.
>
> I have recently
--- "Lisa M. Balbes, Ph.D." wrote:
> My client wants one section of a particular chapter
> to be in columns, instead of the full page width
text of the rest of the chapter. This
> section will extend over several pages, and will
> probably have things added and deleted as we
continue editing
--- Charles Beck wrote:
> Maybe I'm missing something, and then again, maybe
> I'm not. I too have
> always considered it a strange paradox when I see
> the words "This page
> intentionally left blank." But there is no need to
> use it.
==
Mis-printed
nual instructions. Those who
write manuals for non-military applications ought to
also take advantage of that laboratory.
--- "Combs, Richard"
wrote:
> Daniel Emory wrote:
>
> > --- Charles Beck wrote:
> > > Maybe I'm missing something, and then again,
> maybe
--- Shmuel Wolfson wrote:
> I always felt that "This Page Intentionally Left
> Blank" sounds a bit
> weird. Why would you intentionally leave a page
> blank? I vote to change
> it to "This Page Left Blank for Double-sided
> Printing."
What about the case
--- Pat Christenson wrote:
> I have a large project coming up that involves
> converting unstructured
> FrameMaker docs to structured FrameMaker (7.1 on
> Windows). Does anyone
> know of any helpful websites or documentation to get
> through this as
> quickly and efficiently as possible?
--- Eli Har-Even wrote:
> Our FrameMaker templates have two sets of numbered
> lists, one set for steps (step1, step2, step3) and
another for lists (and list1, list2, list3).
> Visually, steps and lists look different, but in
> practice, authors use them interchangeably. I'm
considering
--- Mike Wickham wrote:
> >> Justification and Automatic Letter Spacing used
> to work together. Now,
> >> only one or the other works. Is anyone else
> seeing this?
>
> > Yes, I can verify this behavior with FrameMaker 8
> on Windows XP.
>
> Dang. I hope Adobe fixes this soon. The feature is
--- Mike Wickham wrote:
> >> Justification and Automatic Letter Spacing used
> to work together. Now,
> >> only one or the other works. Is anyone else
> seeing this?
>
> > Yes, I can verify this behavior with FrameMaker 8
> on Windows XP.
>
> Dang. I hope Adobe fixes this soon. The feature is
UniMerge is the solution. You create a report template
in FrameMaker describing how each type of database
record is to be processed and formatted, save it as a
MIF file, and execute it on the database output. The
result is fully-formatted, ready-to print output. The
rport templated can include FM
--- Pat Bensky wrote:
> Hello Framers,
> I am thinking of writing a book about database
> publishing. It would cover
> publishing with InDesign and Quark (possibly
> FrameMaker and Word as well)
> using the following methods:
>
> InDesign tags
> Quark tags
> Xtags, Xdata
> XML
> RTF (perhaps)
>
The publication by the STC of this article
demonstrates the declining relevance of that
organization.
--- Scott Prentice wrote:
> The only way I can think of to do this without a
> plugin (or
> FrameScript), would be to source the files as XML or
> MIF, and have some
> process outside of Frame that manages these values.
In my document entitled "A New Approach to
No one has mentioned the potential for greatly
improving writer productivity, as well as eliminating
format overrides.
Once authors are up to speed on using the structure
view and the element catalog, they're freed from the
entire formatting burden (if the EDD specifies
context-based format
--- Charles Beck wrote:
> Besides-with the caveat that I have not actually
> experienced *enforced* structured authoring, per
> s?-if you need to format a word or phrase for
> emphasis or for special recognition (such as bolding
> UI elements), don't you still have to tag that
> content
--- Peter Ring wrote:
> Dov is of course correct in stating that PDF should
> be considered a final form document format. But,
> nevertheless, PDF can be used as an
> input (to Frame)
===
Another effective way to use PDF as an input to
FrameMaker is to use it to
--- Pedro Pastor wrote:
> Maybe the troubles I've found come from my
> inexperience developing structured applications in
FM, but I cannot fully understand the aim
> behind the (so called) "XML-roundtrip" editing.
==
Assuming that the documentation you are
--- "Andersen, Verner Engell VEA"
wrote:
> Have you any idea of how I can have the various
> edition numbers in footer of each chapter page and
> still have the possibility of importing all formats
> from all files without messing things up?
==
This kind of dilemma can
> Eli,
> You wrote:
> >I'd like to create a table format for a note, with
> one row and two columns.
> >I want a line above and below the second column.
> I've only managed to do
> >this using custom ruling and shading, which I don't
> want to use because
> >custom ruling can't be stored as part
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