Creating a Topic ID in FrameMaker for generating HTML help using Mif2Go

[Mark Soiseth]

We use FrameMaker 8.0p277 to generate our manuals and then we use
Mif2Go to generate HTML help from the same files.

The system works but now they want to introduce a few topic IDs. In
other words, they want the help button, in certain circumstances, to
open the HTML help at certain topics.

I understand how that works, but I'm quite sure that Mif2Go generates
the topic IDs each time it generates the HTML help. Therefore, the
topic ID may be internally valid, but might not be the same from one
build of the help to the next. They would need to know what the topic
ID is before they build the software but, because the help is built
after the application, it would not work.

Is there any way I can set a secondary topic ID in FrameMaker that
Mif2Go will keep? I seem to recall having read a long time ago that I
could set a certain type of marker with defined content (such as
HelpTopic). And that Mif2Go would use that marker to create a topic
ID.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Mark
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Looking for a technical writer for a permanent position in Toulouse, France

[Mark Soiseth]

Hi everyone,

I work for a company in Toulouse, France. We're presently looking for
someone to fill a permanent position as a technical writer.

The ad is in French but you need to possess excellent if not native-quality
English as all the writing will be in English.

The ad itself is as follows:

Société : *FORSK *
Type de contrat : CDI
Lieu : Toulouse Plan
d'accèshttp://cadres.apec.fr/MesOffres/Recherche/voir-offre-surlignee.jsp?PEGA_HREF_10471929_0_0_doAfficherDetailOffreGeoloc=doAfficherDetailOffreGeoloc

Salaire : selon expérience
Expérience : Expérimenté

Forsk est un éditeur de logiciels d'ingénierie de réseaux de téléphonie
mobile (GSM, UMTS, LTE, WiMAX...), leader sur son marché. Nous servons une
clientèle internationale d'opérateurs télécoms et d'équipementiers depuis
nos trois implantations à Toulouse (siège social), Chicago (USA) et
Guangzhou (Chine) et un réseau mondial de distributeurs..

Nous recherchons pour notre site de Toulouse un :

*Ingénieur rédacteur technique (H/F)*

Intégré à notre équipe de documentation, vous participez à la conception et
rédaction de documents techniques (manuel utilisateur, aide en ligne, guide
de référence) de notre logiciel Atoll en coordination avec notre équipe de
développement.

Compétences requises :

- Formation : Nous recherchons des candidats avec une formation
scientifique ou technique avec une familiarité avec le secteur des
télécommunications.

- Outils : une bonne connaissance de FrameMaker est requise. Une
connaissance d'autres outils de documentation sera également appréciée.

- Linguistique : Le candidat doit maitriser l'anglais, avec une
connaissance excellente de la grammaire anglaise, et un français fluide.

- Expérience : minimum 2 ans d'expérience dans la production de
documentation technique en anglais, dans le domaine des télécoms ou chez un
éditeur de logiciels.

Merci de nous transmettre votre candidature accompagnée d'exemples de
documentations réalisées en anglais.

You can either visit the link below to apply or you can apply directly to
mtaddjed...@forsk.com with your CV and examples of your writing in English.


http://cadres.apec.fr/offres-emploi-cadres/0_0_0_37274532Woffre-d-emploi-ingenieur-redacteur-technique-h-f.html?xtmc=redacteur_techniquextnp=1xtcr=1
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Using XML with FrameMaker

[Mark Soiseth]

Hi,

We're finally using FrameMaker here. I've used it since 5.5.6 but here's a
situation I've not seen before.

Before, they were using Word and an XML-based authoring system. Word did
not play nicely with their automated review process, but, with their XML
documents, the author could sign the file out of the repository, then send
it automatically for review. The review and any changes would come back
directly, whereupon, the author could make changes and check it back into
the repository.

What is important here is that the reviewer can view the raw XML file; the
author does not need to convert or export anything. Now, FrameMaker can
export into XML, but doing so would break the automated process and they
would be reduced to doing like I have to do with Word: e-mail chunks of
text or save them somewhere on the network, etc.

So, my question is this: can FrameMaker work directly with XML? Or does
FrameMaker only work with its binary *.FM file?

Thanks for this. I could theoretically check this out myself, but, for the
moment, I only have the licence and not the software :D
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Re: Using XML with FrameMaker

[Mark Soiseth]

Thanks everyone. Actually, I contacted Adobe support (cough) and all they
could tell me was that it can save as and import XML. That didn't seem
right so, after posting this, I searched a little further and found the XML
mode in FrameMaker.


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.comwrote:

 You need to switch to structured mode to edit XML files.

 On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Mark Soiseth mark.sois...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  So, my question is this: can FrameMaker work directly with XML? Or does
  FrameMaker only work with its binary *.FM file?
 
  Thanks for this. I could theoretically check this out myself, but, for
 the
  moment, I only have the licence and not the software :D

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Re: Link checkers

[Mark Soiseth]

COTS: Commercial Off The Shelf.

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com
wrote:

 Are you talking about hyperlinks to external URLs (message URL),
 internal hyperlinks (newlink and gotolink), or cross-references?

 What is COTS?

 On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:45 AM,  john.x.pos...@us.hsbc.com wrote:
  Hi, guys...need to buy an application that will check links from either
 FM
  or the PDF output. My books are now 1500+ pages and contain hundreds of
  links.
 
  Money is no object (within reason). However, the stipulation, because
 this
  is a very secure and locked down banking environment, it must be COTS
  software...I tried going through the custom script plugin route and I
 can't
  get it through...sorry.
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Third party tool to automatically created PDF from a FrameMaker book file

[Mark Soiseth]

Hi all,

We're creating documentation in PDF format from FrameMaker (for a few lucky
projects). At the moment, I manually create a PDF and place it in a
specific folder where it is picked up by the build machine. The manager,
however, finds this to be old-fashioned and wants the build machine to
create the PDF directly from the FrameMaker files.

I believe that there's a very expensive tool available from Adobe that will
do this but I'm hoping that a third-party vendor has created a tool that
will do this at a more moderate price.

Has anyone heard of anything that could do this and be incorporated into a
script?

Mark
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Creating a Topic ID in FrameMaker for generating HTML help using Mif2Go

[Mark Soiseth]

We use FrameMaker 8.0p277 to generate our manuals and then we use
Mif2Go to generate HTML help from the same files.

The system works but now they want to introduce a few topic IDs. In
other words, they want the help button, in certain circumstances, to
open the HTML help at certain topics.

I understand how that works, but I'm quite sure that Mif2Go generates
the topic IDs each time it generates the HTML help. Therefore, the
topic ID may be internally valid, but might not be the same from one
build of the help to the next. They would need to know what the topic
ID is before they build the software but, because the help is built
after the application, it would not work.

Is there any way I can set a secondary topic ID in FrameMaker that
Mif2Go will keep? I seem to recall having read a long time ago that I
could set a certain type of marker with defined content (such as
"HelpTopic"). And that Mif2Go would use that marker to create a topic
ID.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

Mark

Looking for a technical writer for a permanent position in Toulouse, France

[Mark Soiseth]

Hi everyone,

I work for a company in Toulouse, France. We're presently looking for
someone to fill a permanent position as a technical writer.

The ad is in French but you need to possess excellent if not native-quality
English as all the writing will be in English.

The ad itself is as follows:

Soci?t? : *FORSK *
Type de contrat : CDI
Lieu : Toulouse Plan
d'acc?s

Salaire : selon exp?rience
Exp?rience : Exp?riment?

Forsk est un ?diteur de logiciels d'ing?nierie de r?seaux de t?l?phonie
mobile (GSM, UMTS, LTE, WiMAX...), leader sur son march?. Nous servons une
client?le internationale d'op?rateurs t?l?coms et d'?quipementiers depuis
nos trois implantations ? Toulouse (si?ge social), Chicago (USA) et
Guangzhou (Chine) et un r?seau mondial de distributeurs..

Nous recherchons pour notre site de Toulouse un :

*Ing?nieur r?dacteur technique (H/F)*

Int?gr? ? notre ?quipe de documentation, vous participez ? la conception et
r?daction de documents techniques (manuel utilisateur, aide en ligne, guide
de r?f?rence) de notre logiciel Atoll en coordination avec notre ?quipe de
d?veloppement.

Comp?tences requises :

- Formation : Nous recherchons des candidats avec une formation
scientifique ou technique avec une familiarit? avec le secteur des
t?l?communications.

- Outils : une bonne connaissance de FrameMaker est requise. Une
connaissance d'autres outils de documentation sera ?galement appr?ci?e.

- Linguistique : Le candidat doit maitriser l'anglais, avec une
connaissance excellente de la grammaire anglaise, et un fran?ais fluide.

- Exp?rience : minimum 2 ans d'exp?rience dans la production de
documentation technique en anglais, dans le domaine des t?l?coms ou chez un
?diteur de logiciels.

Merci de nous transmettre votre candidature accompagn?e d'exemples de
documentations r?alis?es en anglais.

You can either visit the link below to apply or you can apply directly to
mtaddjedine at forsk.com with your CV and examples of your writing in English.


http://cadres.apec.fr/offres-emploi-cadres/0_0_0_37274532Woffre-d-emploi-ingenieur-redacteur-technique-h-f.html?xtmc=redacteur_technique=1=1
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Re: [Framers] Nostalgia - was Re: FrameMaker 2015

[Mark Soiseth]

I got a job with a company who used Ventura on the GEM environment. It
allowed me to shoot myself in the foot so easily. But, once I learned how
to apply the rules, etc., I was amazed. And this was on DOS-based machines
with a 8086 chip and only 640 kb of RAM.

But, yes, Corel did not do it justice.

On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 at 05:05, Jerilynne Knight 
wrote:

> Hi Bjorn...I didn't follow Ventura that far into present time, although I
> loved it when I learned it a Xerox. Once Corel took it over, I though I was
> the only one who was both disappointed and disgusted with the poor job they
> were doing!
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 5:00 PM Studio Smalbro  wrote:
>
> > I followed Ventura all the way from the early versions on floppy disks
> > to the latest Corel Version 10.
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