Re: Structured and Standard FM 7.2

2008-12-04 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Les, This is no problem whatsoever. If you don't like it, simply change it in the Preferences, restart FrameMaker and away you go. You can always change it back. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com Hello Framers I recently started a new job, 2 days ago,

Re: Structured and Standard FM 7.2

2008-12-04 Thread David Spreadbury
Les, You shouldn't encounter any problems working in an Unstructured (Standard) FM document while FrameMaker is set for Structured.   Obviously, you won't be able to use any of the Structured features while editing an Unstructured document, i.e., Structured View, Element Catalog won't display

RE: Structured and Standard FM 7.2

2008-12-04 Thread Fred Ridder
Les Winberg wrote: I recently started a new job, 2 days ago, and I noticed that a document I was given is Standard FM but has Structured FM selected in the Preferences. My boss told me it was OK but I think it could cause a problem. Note that the Preferences apply on a per-user basis rather

Re: Structured and Standard FM 7.2

2008-12-04 Thread Klaus Mueller
Les, David, Rick, You shouldn't encounter any problems working in an Unstructured (Standard) FM document while FrameMaker is set for Structured. This is no problem whatsoever. Actually, I regularly encounter an annoying problem when working with unstructured documents while FrameMaker is

Re: Structured and Standard FM 7.2

2008-12-04 Thread Rick Quatro
Hi Klaus, Thanks for the information. I wasn't aware of these problems. Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com Les, David, Rick, You shouldn't encounter any problems working in an Unstructured (Standard) FM document while FrameMaker is set for Structured.

Re: Structured and Standard FM 7.2

2008-12-04 Thread David Spreadbury
Klaus,   Like Rick, I was not aware of these issues. Very good information. Thanks for the heads-up on these issues. --- On Thu, 12/4/08, Rick Quatro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Rick Quatro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Structured and Standard FM 7.2 To: Klaus Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Structured and Standard FM 7.2

2008-12-04 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Framers, Maybe someone of the FM9 beta participants could check this issue with the current version? (FM8 Structured does also write those structured book component information into unstructured MIF documents.) Thanks, Klaus --- Original Message --- From: Rick Quatro Date: 04.12.2008

Re: Structured and Standard FM 7.2

2008-12-04 Thread Art Campbell
Well, I'd venture the minority opinion that I'd rather have the warning messages display, even if they're a false warning... If I'm opening a new document, I'd much rather know that I may be blowing away structured info (the warning appears when you're opening a correctly structured doc too, as

Re: Structured and Standard FM 7.2

2008-12-04 Thread Klaus Mueller
Hello Art, I totally agree: When opening structured documents with unstructured FrameMaker, a warning message should appear. The only problem is that Structured FrameMaker does unnecessarily and counterproductively write structure information in unstructured documents when creating MIF files