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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Allison
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 9:44 AM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Switching to Structured FrameMaker
I've gotten some wonderful respon
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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Allison
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 6:44 AM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Switching to Structured FrameMaker
If you hire a new person and they don't know structured FrameMaker, how
ht increase it.
I really love structured over unstructured; does it show? ;-)
Fei Min Lorente
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From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Allison
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 9:44 AM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.co
I've gotten some wonderful responses both on the list and privately. I'd begun
to think that, since a lot of my clients rely on freelancers who come and go,
structured FrameMaker might be the way to ensure consistency across documents.
Then it occurred to me, how hard is it to get writers on bo
--What was your documentation situation? (How many product lines, how
many publications, how much single-sourcing, how much translation?)
> I am a single writer documenting 8 products =~ 16 books and 10 or so
online help systems, with a fair degree of text reuse, plus occasional
contract manu
Hi Nancy:
I did a presentation about our switch from unstructured to structured
FrameMaker back in 2005, so let me know if you want me to send it to
you. It answers all your questions, such as how many pages we had, why
we did it, what our output was, etc. I'm a lone writer too, but we don't
do tr
e new ditamaps to reorganize the topics. It took us only
> a couple of hours to recreate the deliverables.
>
> Nadine
>
> --- On Wed, 12/9/09, Eichelberger, Mark
> wrote:
>
> > From: Eichelberger, Mark
> > Subject: RE: Switching to Structured FrameMaker
> &g
ark
> Subject: RE: Switching to Structured FrameMaker
> To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
> Date: Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 3:10 PM
> As it turns out, I was about to ask
> this list the exact same question.
> We also have always used unstructured FM, but with the
> recent
> integra
As it turns out, I was about to ask this list the exact same question.
We also have always used unstructured FM, but with the recent
integration of documentation teams within multiple business lines
throughout my company, I can see that structured FM may be considered as
part of a solution for cont
