First Hurdle

2007-02-12 Thread hedley.fin...@myob.com
> Regarding FrameMaker content, I don't know myself of any special > issues regarding structure. The general rule with conditional > text is to keep things simple, else it can turn into a > maintenance nightmare. I would avoid using FrameMaker conditional formats in structured documents.

Re: First Hurdle

2007-02-11 Thread hedley . finger
Regarding FrameMaker content, I don't know myself of any special issues regarding structure. The general rule with conditional text is to keep things simple, else it can turn into a maintenance nightmare. I would avoid using FrameMaker conditional formats in structured documents. Struct

Re: First Hurdle

2007-02-11 Thread William Abernathy
MATT TODD wrote: All, Congratulate me, friends! As a newbie, I just completed my first preliminary manual in FM without overrides or unresolved xrefs or any other shenanigans that I can see. Everything appears to work great. Hah! It's pizza for me! Congrats. I'm working with legacy

First Hurdle

2007-02-11 Thread William Abernathy
MATT TODD wrote: > All, > > Congratulate me, friends! As a newbie, I just completed my first > preliminary manual in FM without overrides or unresolved xrefs or any > other shenanigans that I can see. Everything appears to work great. Hah! > It's pizza for me! Congrats. > I'm working with

Re: First Hurdle

2007-02-10 Thread Steve Rickaby
Moral: don't post late at night when brain fuddled. At 23:38 + 9/2/07, Steve Rickaby wrote: One final question...is structured FM difficult to learn? I have to admit that it looks daunting to me. How long did it take some of you to learn? Some of me learnt it in a few days. I did not

First Hurdle

2007-02-10 Thread Steve Rickaby
Moral: don't post late at night when brain fuddled. At 23:38 + 9/2/07, Steve Rickaby wrote: > >One final question...is structured FM difficult to learn? I have to >>admit that it looks daunting to me. How long did it take some of you to >>learn? > >Some of me learnt it in a few days. I did

First Hurdle

2007-02-09 Thread MATT TODD
All, Congratulate me, friends! As a newbie, I just completed my first preliminary manual in FM without overrides or unresolved xrefs or any other shenanigans that I can see. Everything appears to work great. Hah! It's pizza for me! I'm working with legacy documentation created in Word and FM 7.0

Re: First Hurdle

2007-02-09 Thread Steve Rickaby
Congratulate me, friends! I congratulate you. As a newbie, I just completed my first preliminary manual in FM without overrides or unresolved xrefs or any other shenanigans that I can see. Everything appears to work great. Hah! It's pizza for me! A good feeling, and certainly worthy of pizza.

First Hurdle

2007-02-09 Thread MATT TODD
All, Congratulate me, friends! As a newbie, I just completed my first preliminary manual in FM without overrides or unresolved xrefs or any other shenanigans that I can see. Everything appears to work great. Hah! It's pizza for me! I'm working with legacy documentation created in Word and FM 7.0

First Hurdle

2007-02-09 Thread Steve Rickaby
>Congratulate me, friends! I congratulate you. >As a newbie, I just completed my first preliminary manual in FM without >overrides or unresolved xrefs or any other shenanigans that I can see. >Everything appears to work great. Hah! It's pizza for me! A good feeling, and certainly worthy of

First Hurdle

2007-02-09 Thread qui...@airmail.net
No, grasshopper, the question you must first ask is, how long did it take you to learn XML? Then when you understand how to create a DTD you can create your EDD. Before you map the EDD you must figure out how your structure can be mimicked by the formatting. For formatting is a visual