Re: OT: Syntax for if/then statement

[Martha J Davidson]

At 10:22 AM 6/29/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Our new editor wants to add the word and to such
statements - if blah, blah, AND then blah, blah. Both I and the other
writer disagree with the editor on this one - it should be just if/then -
no and.


Tammy,

I think your editor is overreacting to the use of then following
a comma in an entirely different context. As other folks have said,
using if A, then B, is just good English; anything else won't parse.

In some procedural steps, there's a trend to say Do A, then do B,
which many editors prefer to change to Do A, AND then to B. Your
editor seems to have mixed up these two very different uses of then
following an initial clause. Can you check with him/her to see if
this is a possible misinterpretation of the new--incorrect--recommendation?

martha

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OT: Syntax for if/then statement

[Martha J Davidson]

At 10:22 AM 6/29/2006, Tammy.VanBoening at jeppesen.com wrote:
>Our new editor wants to add the word "and" to such
>statements - if , AND then . Both I and the other
>writer disagree with the editor on this one - it should be just if/then -
>no "and."

Tammy,

I think your editor is overreacting to the use of "then" following
a comma in an entirely different context. As other folks have said,
using if A, then B, is just good English; anything else won't parse.

In some procedural steps, there's a trend to say "Do A, then do B,"
which many editors prefer to change to "Do A, AND then to B." Your
editor seems to have mixed up these two very different uses of "then"
following an initial clause. Can you check with him/her to see if
this is a possible misinterpretation of the new--incorrect--recommendation?

martha

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Dances With Words
editrix at nemasys.com

"Too many words bring about exhaustion."
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WebWorks forum?

[Martha J Davidson]

At 10:40 AM 6/15/2006, Beck, Charles wrote:
>Do any of you know of any Quadralay/WebWorks online
>forums like this group, where you can ask and get answers to questions
>about WebWorks products?

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwp-users/
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Re: 'Bold' not inserted in Character Formats

[Martha J Davidson]

At 04:57 AM 5/26/2006, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote:

I have a weird problem on my hands, and I probably have had it for a
long time (years). I have a problem with setting some of my Character
Tags to bold. I am not sure whether it is isolated to the Helvetica
font, but this is how it goes:


I have seen this as well. In my current template, body tags use
AGaramond. I have a character tag set to As Is, and then Bold.
When I apply this tag to body text, nothing happens. When I
make a tag that explicitly references AGaramond Bold, then
I get bold text, but not when I use a more generically defined tag.

I don't have a solution for this other than to make a new character
tag that uses the dedicated bold font. Is that the only way?

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'Bold' not inserted in Character Formats

[Martha J Davidson]

At 04:57 AM 5/26/2006, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote:
>I have a weird problem on my hands, and I probably have had it for a
>long time (years). I have a problem with setting some of my Character
>Tags to bold. I am not sure whether it is isolated to the Helvetica
>font, but this is how it goes:

I have seen this as well. In my current template, body tags use
AGaramond. I have a character tag set to As Is, and then Bold.
When I apply this tag to body text, nothing happens. When I
make a tag that explicitly references AGaramond Bold, then
I get bold text, but not when I use a more generically defined tag.

I don't have a solution for this other than to make a new character
tag that uses the dedicated bold font. Is that the only way?

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Dances With Words
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"Too many words bring about exhaustion."
  --Tao Te Ching, Chapter 5 (translated by Sheets/Tovey)

Conditional Text and Numbering

[Martha J Davidson]

When you apply the condition tag, make sure all text symbols
are showing and that you include the paragraph mark on the
caption in the conditional text.

martha

At 03:40 PM 5/24/2006, Ariel Kahana wrote:
>I am using Framemaker 7.2 on a Win XP SP2 platform. I have limited
>experience with conditional text and have to maintain a user guide for two
>rather similar products. I have been able designate text conditional. My
>only problem has been to designate graphic captions as conditional. My
>graphic captions paragraph style contains an automatically generated
>numbering scheme. When I set a graphic and caption as conditional, the
>graphic (frame) and the caption title disappear. However the graphic number
>(Figure X.X) does not. How can I use conditional text to eliminate the
>graphic caption and maintain my numbering scheme?

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Re: Hyperlinks in Acrobat not present?

[Martha J Davidson]

At 04:14 PM 5/17/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I have not isolated this to the text insets, although that was my initial
reaction to the problem.


That's exactly it. Cross-references in text insets don't become
clickable links in PDF. Unfortunately, that's how it's built.


Is there any way to force the PDF to contain the links for all such cross-
references? I would *strongly* prefer not to edit the PDF to add them in
manually into the PDF - this file is re-generated from FrameMaker too often
in this document!


The only way is to convert the insets to text before generating
the PDF. I had Rick Quatro write a custom FrameScript for me
that does this and generates the PDF, then restores the insets.
That was the only solution I could come up with that didn't
involve lots of manual work each time I needed PDFs.

martha
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Hyperlinks in Acrobat not present?

[Martha J Davidson]

At 04:14 PM 5/17/2006, Syed.Hosain at aeris.net wrote:
>I have not isolated this to the text insets, although that was my initial
>reaction to the problem.

That's exactly it. Cross-references in text insets don't become
clickable links in PDF. Unfortunately, that's how it's built.

>Is there any way to force the PDF to contain the links for all such cross-
>references? I would *strongly* prefer not to edit the PDF to add them in
>manually into the PDF - this file is re-generated from FrameMaker too often
>in this document!

The only way is to convert the insets to text before generating
the PDF. I had Rick Quatro write a custom FrameScript for me
that does this and generates the PDF, then restores the insets.
That was the only solution I could come up with that didn't
involve lots of manual work each time I needed PDFs.

martha
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Dances With Words
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"Too many words bring about exhaustion."
  --Tao Te Ching, Chapter 5 (translated by Sheets/Tovey)

2-pane Page in WebWorks Standard?

[Martha J Davidson]

It sounds like you might want to use the frameset version of the Dynamic
HTML template. I have made this work when I configured it all in WWP Pro,
then ran the template in WWP Standard. I'm not sure where in WWP Standard
to find the settings that make this work.

In the frameset version of the Dynamic HTML template, the left pane shows
the TOC and the right pane shows the content of the selected topic. To set
this, create project using the Dynamic HTML template, then go to Project >
Options. On the TOC/IX tab, select Generate a frameset file. You can use
the default name or give it a name of your own.

martha

At 01:54 PM 5/8/2006, Joanne Curme wrote:
>The documentation (such as it is :)) for WebWorks Standard, which comes with
>FrameMaker 7.0, says it can create a 2-frame page for a multi-doc set where
>the titles of the docs remain listed in the left pane while the contents
>display in the right pane.
>
>I have not been able to get this to work in this version of WebWorks. Has
>anyone else?

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"Too many words bring about exhaustion."
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Re: OT:Commenting in PDF files from Acrobat 6.0

[Martha J Davidson]

At 02:35 PM 4/17/2006, Jon Harvey wrote:

Does 6.0 allow recipients to comment or does she have to upgrade to
Acrobat 7.0 or 7.0 Pro? I have 7.0 Pro on my machine and haven't had any
problems.


That feature didn't come in until Acrobat Pro 7.
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OT:Commenting in PDF files from Acrobat 6.0

[Martha J Davidson]

At 02:35 PM 4/17/2006, Jon Harvey wrote:
>Does 6.0 allow recipients to comment or does she have to upgrade to
>Acrobat 7.0 or 7.0 Pro? I have 7.0 Pro on my machine and haven't had any
>problems.

That feature didn't come in until Acrobat Pro 7.
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online help

[Martha J Davidson]

I also use WebWorks. Creating online help from FrameMaker
source is a bit more complex than just running the source
files through a WebWorks template. It involves some amount
of planning and organizing your source files, choosing a help
format you want to produce, and creating a WebWorks conversion
template. At that point it really is a matter of running the conversion
and reviewing the generated help.

Many people on this list and on the HATT list 
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HATT)
can help you with the planning parts. If you choose WebWorks, the
people on the WebWorks list (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wwp-users)
will also be able to help.

As I said, though, the planning is the most important part.
Knowing what you want to accomplish before you start will
make the whole process work much more smoothly.

martha

At 02:01 PM 4/11/2006, Gillian Flato wrote:
>I use WebWorks Publisher Pro. Then I have to run my WebWorks file
>through Microsoft Help to compile it.
>WWp works with the Frame code, it single sources it, so no additional
>people needed, just an extra day to convert it to help.

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"Too many words bring about exhaustion."
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Re: Updating text with new paragraph tag settings

[Martha J Davidson]

Try File  Import  Formats, and select paragraph and character tags,
imported from Current. Then select the check box for When Importing,
Remove Other Format/Layout Overrides. That should do what you
want.

martha

At 02:41 PM 4/7/2006, Karyn Hunt wrote:

  I have some very old chapters from some very old books that I'm
selectively copying and pasting into some new books. The new books have
slightly different character tag settings (different indents and line
spacing) so I'm importing the new formats into all the old chapters as I
copy them in to the new books. Problem is, this old book had a whole lot
of overrides and when I see the paragraph tags in the new book (in the
paragraph tag field on the menu), the tag names have asterisks next to
and have not yet picked up the new settings. So I'm having to go back
and select each chunk of text and re-tag it with the same tag to make it
pick up the new settings. Is there some shortcut to quickly update them
all at once?


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Updating text with new paragraph tag settings

[Martha J Davidson]

Try File > Import > Formats, and select paragraph and character tags,
imported from Current. Then select the check box for When Importing,
Remove Other Format/Layout Overrides. That should do what you
want.

martha

At 02:41 PM 4/7/2006, Karyn Hunt wrote:
>   I have some very old chapters from some very old books that I'm
>selectively copying and pasting into some new books. The new books have
>slightly different character tag settings (different indents and line
>spacing) so I'm importing the new formats into all the old chapters as I
>copy them in to the new books. Problem is, this old book had a whole lot
>of overrides and when I see the paragraph tags in the new book (in the
>paragraph tag field on the menu), the tag names have asterisks next to
>and have not yet picked up the new settings. So I'm having to go back
>and select each chunk of text and re-tag it with the same tag to make it
>pick up the new settings. Is there some shortcut to quickly update them
>all at once?

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"Too many words bring about exhaustion."
  --Tao Te Ching, Chapter 5 (translated by Sheets/Tovey)

Way to generate a list of Object Properties?

[Martha J Davidson]

To get a list of imported graphics, generate a List of References, and
select Imported Graphics. You can do this for individual chapters or
for a whole book.

martha

At 12:29 PM 3/27/2006, Denise Salles wrote:
>is anyone aware of a way to generate a list of the actual Object Properties
>(graphic names) in a document/book? I'd like to do that to be able to see
>what graphics are actually in the book, as there about 100 unused ones in
>the sub-directory from legacy stuff, and I want to remove them. Anyone done
>this before?

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Anyone used Tortoise CVS with Frame Files

[Martha J Davidson]

At 05:31 PM 3/14/2006, hedley.finger at myob.com wrote:
>And if the product manager has just decided to restore the functionality
>that was removed a few days ago, how do you retrieve the version of the FM
>file that contains the content you deleted when the function was removed?

So far, that's never happened to me. I've used various version control
systems over the years with FM files and I've been fine.

To protect myself somewhat from the situation you describe, I have
a condition tag called Obsolete, which I apply to deleted features
and leave hidden for the duration of the release. Then I delete text
marked obsolete later, when I'm sure the feature won't return from
the dead.

martha
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"Too many words bring about exhaustion."
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Anyone used Tortoise CVS with Frame Files

[Martha J Davidson]

At 09:00 AM 3/15/2006, Combs, Richard wrote:
>Martha misspoke -- when you check in, the file isn't _replaced_, the new
>version is _added_. Every version you check in is available in the
>repository.

Thanks, Richard, for clarifying what I meant.

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"Too many words bring about exhaustion."
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Anyone used Tortoise CVS with Frame Files

[Martha J Davidson]

I use TortoiseCVS with Frame files. I mark both .fm and .book files
as binary, so that each time I check in the entire file is replaced, and
I don't use CVS Diff. Otherwise, everything works smoothly.

What specific questions do you have?

martha

At 07:58 AM 3/14/2006, Neil Tubb wrote:
>Just wondering if anyone out there has used the open source Tortoise CVS
>with Frame files? I'm looking into it as a way to introduce some simple
>version control for our cust docs (just simple check-in,
>check-out...obviously no merges or anything like that). Any info would
>be appreciated.

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"Too many words bring about exhaustion."
  --Tao Te Ching, Chapter 5 (translated by Sheets/Tovey)

Losing colors during PDF conversion

[Martha J Davidson]

At 07:36 AM 3/14/2006, Doug Mckinney wrote:
>How can I get the FrameMaker-defined colors to retain their color through
>the PDF conversion process?

Don't use the Generic PostScript printer; use Adobe PDF to create
PDFs. Nothing else guarantees the results you are looking for.

martha
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Dances With Words
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"Too many words bring about exhaustion."
  --Tao Te Ching, Chapter 5 (translated by Sheets/Tovey)

automating documentation builds

[Martha J Davidson]

Hi Peter,

I guess I wasn't quite clear in my original post. I'm doing the entire doc 
build on a local machine--the only network access is checking the source 
files out of CVS and checking in the generated help and PDFs back into CVS.

It looks like I have a solution, given to me offlist by Rick Quatro, that 
is working. Rick suggested adding a line to my batch file to quite FM after 
running the first (very long) FrameScript, to free up any rogue memory, and 
then let the WebWorks AutoMap command restart FM to continue the script. 
Specifically, I added the following line to my script:

RunEslBatch -s"Quit;"

I'll be doing some more testing, but it looks like Rick's idea is going to 
work.

martha

At 07:17 PM 2/21/2006, Peter Gold wrote:
>Hi, Martha:
>
>Is it possible that intermediate files created by the process are not 
>complete, aren't renamed,  or do not appear complete or in the location 
>where or when subsequent operations expect them?
>
>If the whole process works correctly locally on one machine, the problems 
>may be due to this "network latency."

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Dances With Words
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"Too many words bring about exhaustion."
  --Tao Te Ching, Chapter 5 (translated by Sheets/Tovey)

automating documentation builds

[Martha J Davidson]

Hi everyone,

I'm in the process of automating the doc build process, creating both help 
(using WebWorks AutoMap) and PDFs. I'm using FM 7.2 and WWP2003, version 
8.6, along with some custom FrameScripts written for my company by Rick 
Quatro. This runs on WinXP Pro, fully patched, with 1GB of memory.

I'm doing only the simplest commands, as far as I can tell: using a Windows 
batch file to check source files out of CVS to a brand-new directory, 
running a FrameScript to set conditional text properly for each of the 
chapters in a book file that includes chapters from each of my other books, 
and then calling WebWorks using the wpuba command-line interface from 
AutoMap. These commands are about the first third of my script.

Each command works fine by itself. When I run this portion of the script 
sequentially, FM crashes (with a dialog box listing error codes and the 
suggestion to read the log file for more information). I'm trying to figure 
out what's causing the crash. Initially, it happened partway through the 
FrameScript, running with RunEslBatch. When I saw that it happened on the 
same files consistently, I opened each of those files, re-saved them and 
checked them back into CVS. Now the crash happens about 70% of the way 
through the WebWorks help generation.

My first thought was that it was somehow related to memory--either a memory 
leak in FM or flaky memory on the build server hardware. And I don't know 
yet if either of these is the culprit or if something else is happening.

I realize this might not be enough to go on. Does anyone have any ideas? 
Thoughts of things to try? Similar experiences? I appreciate any help that 
anyone can offer.

martha
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Dances With Words
editrix at nemasys.com

"Too many words bring about exhaustion."
  --Tao Te Ching, Chapter 5 (translated by Sheets/Tovey)

Re: Cannot invoke OLE server?

[Martha J Davidson]

At 10:35 AM 2/1/2006, Andrew Becraft wrote:

I've never had good luck with embedding my Visio diagrams as OLE objects.


I don't have all that many Visio drawings in my doc set, but it's worked 
for me for 3 years to use OLE linking for them. It may not be as solid as 
saiving the drawings to EPS or PDF, but it saves me a step, and as long as 
it isn't broke, I don't want to take the time to fix it.


martha
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Cannot invoke OLE server?

[Martha J Davidson]

At 10:35 AM 2/1/2006, Andrew Becraft wrote:
>I've never had good luck with embedding my Visio diagrams as OLE objects.

I don't have all that many Visio drawings in my doc set, but it's worked 
for me for 3 years to use OLE linking for them. It may not be as solid as 
saiving the drawings to EPS or PDF, but it saves me a step, and as long as 
it isn't broke, I don't want to take the time to fix it.

martha
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Dances With Words
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"Too many words bring about exhaustion."
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Re: FM driving me crazy!

[Martha J Davidson]

At 04:24 PM 1/24/2006, Joe Malin wrote:

It's a generated file, List of Tables. I am setting its pagination from
the book window, not from within the file itself.


Only thing I can think of is to make sure the pagination settings are the 
same in the file and at the book level. Does that make a difference?


martha
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FM driving me crazy!

[Martha J Davidson]

At 04:24 PM 1/24/2006, Joe Malin wrote:
>It's a generated file, List of Tables. I am setting its pagination from
>the book window, not from within the file itself.

Only thing I can think of is to make sure the pagination settings are the 
same in the file and at the book level. Does that make a difference?

martha
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"Too many words bring about exhaustion."
  --Tao Te Ching, Chapter 5 (translated by Sheets/Tovey)

Setting Logical Page Numbering from FrameMaker

[Martha J Davidson]

At 11:04 AM 1/17/2006, Joe Malin wrote:
>Why do that now with a book that may never be put to paper? Instead, use
>sequential numbering starting with the Title page as 1. To preserve the
>style of front matter, perhaps use roman numerals, but then allow the
>first page of text to be something other than 1.
>
>Would readers care? Would someone else be upset?

I don't know what readers would notice. I still use roman numerals
for front matter because I like following traditions when it's not
a lot of extra work for me to do so. It feels good to me when the
manuals I write seem like "real" books, even if they're not printed
any more. With PageLabeler, it's not much overhead to keep the
traditional scheme, so I see no need to abandon it.

martha
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Martha Jane {Kolman | Davidson}
Dances With Words
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"Too many words bring about exhaustion."
  --Tao Te Ching, Chapter 5 (translated by Sheets/Tovey)

Installing Acrobat 7

[Martha J Davidson]

At 12:00 PM 1/6/2006, A wrote:
>I let Acrobat 7 do its thing and had no issues. It didn't require any
>gyrations like moving from 4 to 5, or from 5 to 6, did.

I've ordered an upgrade from Acrobat 5.05 to Acrobat 7 Professional;
does anyone know if installing that upgrade will go as smoothly as
"A" describes here, or should I explicitly uninstall Acrobat 5.05 first?

martha
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Dances With Words
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"Too many words bring about exhaustion."
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RE: Framers Digest, Vol 1, Issue 8

[Martha J Davidson]

At 01:47 PM 11/22/2005, Lightle, Ed (OH) wrote:
My questions is
this: Is there a way to globally update markers in a FrameMaker
document? I use FM 6.0. 
Welcome to framers. This is a good place for questions. To make it
easier, though, next time, delete all of the messages from the digest
except for the one you're replying to.
As for your question, I'm not exactly sure what you want to do. What kind
of updating do you want to do on the markers? If you can be more
specific, I'm sure we can help you.
martha

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Dances With Words
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[Martha J Davidson]

At 01:47 PM 11/22/2005, Lightle, Ed (OH) wrote:
>My questions is this: Is there a way to globally update markers in a 
>FrameMaker document?  I use FM 6.0.

Welcome to framers. This is a good place for questions. To make it easier, 
though, next time, delete all of the messages from the digest except for 
the one you're replying to.

As for your question, I'm not exactly sure what you want to do. What kind 
of updating do you want to do on the markers? If you can be more specific, 
I'm sure we can help you.

martha
--
Martha Jane {Kolman | Davidson}
Dances With Words
editrix at nemasys.com

"Too many words bring about exhaustion."
  --Tao Te Ching, Chapter 5 (translated by Sheets/Tovey) 
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TP for FM?

[Martha J Davidson]

I'd also add:
* best practices (like no overrides and importing by reference)
* single-sourcing (variables, conditional text, output formats)
* structure (which I don't use yet, so no specific ideas)

I like the idea of categories related to using the tool
in general, in addition to ones like Karen's that relate
to particular aspects of template use and creation.

martha

At 02:29 PM 11/21/2005, Karen L. Zorn wrote:
>>Let's say someone created a FrameMaker edition of
>>Trivial Pursuit. What knowledge categories would you
>>expect it to have?
>
>Master pages
>Reference pages
>Tables
>Paragraph and character formats

--
Martha Jane {Kolman | Davidson}
Dances With Words
editrix at nemasys.com

"Too many words bring about exhaustion."
  --Tao Te Ching, Chapter 5 (translated by Sheets/Tovey)