Re: Frame versus XSL-FO

2013-03-01 Thread Yves Barbion
Well, it was the original poster (Ed) who brought up DITA. And Author-IT is a ($$$) product; the DITA-OT is not (and was never intended to be one), it's a reference implementation. Cheers -- Yves Barbion www.scripto.nu ___ You are currently

RE: RW Rules vs EDD Conflict

2013-03-01 Thread Ian Proudfoot
Hi Lisa, I think you have misunderstood the rules a little. So try this: element Graphic { is fm graphic element Graphic; attribute illus is fm property entity; } This will work if the illus attribute is defined as type ENTITY in the DTD. In your EDD remove the attribute definition

Reappearing Change Bars

2013-03-01 Thread Kristy Nolan
Hi, all! I am posting for a coworker, but I have no answers or where to start either. In our FrameMaker 10 book, we add the change bar style to cross references that have changed for a revision. When we modify that page for a subsequent revision, we remove the change bar style. These change

RE: Reappearing Change Bars

2013-03-01 Thread Peter Hirons
Kristy, Do you have Automatic Change Bars turned on? (Format | Document | Change bars ) FM re-creates X-refs every time it prints (or creates a PDF) and that could trigger a new changebar. Peter From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com

Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Nancy Allison
Hi, all. I'm using FM 10 and RH 9 on a Windows 7 system. I see that there are at least two ways to chunk .fm content into separate .html topics when you import a FrameMaker project into RoboHelp: 1. When setting up the import of .fm files, set the pagination value to a heading level; topics

RE: Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Combs, Richard
Nancy Allison wrote: 2. Create custom markers to identify the beginning of a topic. Question: How do you indicate the end of the topic? The end of a topic is the beginning of the next topic. Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111

Re: RE: Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Nancy Allison
Dang, I think.Let's say I have a longish chapter:Chapter TitleInternal TOCHeading 1 IntroHeading 2Heading 2Heading 2Heading 1Heading 2Heading 2Heading 2Let's say that, of all of that content, the only content I want to transform into .html topic files are the sectionswith asterisks:Chapter

RE: RE: Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
What I would do is build a new .book file with all the required bits you want to see over in RH then bring that in. From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Nancy Allison Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013

Re: RE: RE: Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Nancy Allison
Hi, Jeff.Do you mean cut delete the content that is not wanted in online help and create a second set of parallel, cut-down .fm files? That would mean blowing up the single-sourcing model, which I would not want to do . . If you mean something else, I'm all ears.Thanks.--NancyOn 03/01/13, Jeff

Re: Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 01/03/2013 11:18 AM, Nancy Allison wrote: Dang, I think. Let's say I have a longish chapter: Chapter Title Internal TOC Heading 1 Intro Heading 2 Heading 2 Heading 2 Heading 1 Heading 2 Heading 2 Heading 2 Let's say that, of all of that content, the only content I want to transform into .html

Re: Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:54:04 -0600 (CST), Nancy Allison ma...@verizon.net wrote: Is there any other approach to chunking text that I'm missing? Yes, use a product that really works with Frame as it is, like Mif2Go... and avoid all the pain you describe, and that would be required for all the

Re: Re: Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Nancy Allison
Very interesting, thank you! Let's further say that I want to combine the two sections preceded by ** into one .html topic file, and I also want to do the same with the two sections preceded by . In other words, I want to carve information out of the larger chapter and only convert that

Re: Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Nancy Allison
Ah, I see what you're saying, Jeff.The entire list of headings, beginning with Chapter Title, is one .fm file. The Heading 1 and Heading 2s are relatively short sections within the .fm file and would create a lengthy book file if they were saved as individual .fm files and entered separately in

Re: Re: Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Nancy Allison
Hi, Jeremy.With regard to selecting only some text from a lengthy .fm file to turn into .html files, how does mif2go offer better control? I assume I would still need to indicate heading level at which to split the .fm files, and conditional text to mask unwanted text.Does mif2go make either of

Re: Reappearing Change Bars

2013-03-01 Thread Kristy Nolan
No, we don't have change bars on automatic.KristyKristy NolanCentral Pubs - Flight OpsOn Mar 1, 2013, at 8:21 AM, "Peter Hirons" pe...@galley.ie wrote: image002.jpgKristy,Do you have Automatic Change Bars turned on? (Format | Document | Change bars )FM re-creates X-refs every time it prints (or

RE: Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Nancy, consider creating markers for all headings, regardless of whether you plan to use them or not. Let RoboHelp break them into topics. Then in your RoboHelp TOC and browse sequences, just include the topics that you want. Yes, the unwanted ones will go along for the ride when the file is

Re: RE: Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Nancy Allison
Carol, are you speaking of custom Markers that RH could then look for?I like the idea of just removing unwanted topics, sounds very painless!--NancyOn 03/01/13, Carol J. Elkinscelk...@awrittenword.com wrote:Nancy, consider creating markers for all headings, regardless of whether you plan to use

Re: FM-to-RH users' list?

2013-03-01 Thread Matt Sullivan
There's a specific FM to RH Google group, tcs-us...@googlegroups.com and there's the Adobe forums... http://forums.adobe.com/community/robohelp/robohelp_framemaker I have quite a bit of info at mattrsullivan.com as well. -Matt Matt Sullivan technical communication | online training |

RE: Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Alexandra Duffy
Hi Nancy, Here's how we do this - we have two heading styles for all our major headings. Level 1 starts a new page in RH, and Level1nopage looks exactly the same but does not have the Pagination option selected in the RH mapping. Similarly, we have Level2 and Level2nopage, and so on. Our Level

Re: RE: Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Nancy Allison
Hi, Alexandra. I think this is what Robert Lauriston has been saying, also.Both the formats you use are picked up in your FrameMaker TOC for your PDF output, (assuming you are single-sourcing to PDF also), correct?This sounds like a great solution. Very elegant.--NancyOn 03/01/13, Alexandra

Re: why is FM's UI so weird and buggy?

2013-03-01 Thread quills
You have to understand that even what UI experience they had with the Mac they threw away when they orphaned the Mac OS on FrameMaker. It's been solid windows since Version 8. They took the Microsoft design philosophy to heart and are busy fixing things that aren't broken. Including the UI.

RW Rules vs EDD Conflict

2013-03-01 Thread Ian Proudfoot
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Reappearing Change Bars

2013-03-01 Thread Kristy Nolan
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Reappearing Change Bars

2013-03-01 Thread Peter Hirons
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Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Nancy Allison
Hi, all. I'm using FM 10 and RH 9 on a Windows 7 system. I see that there are at least two ways to chunk .fm content into separate .html topics when you import a FrameMaker project into RoboHelp: 1. When setting up the import of .fm files, set the pagination value to a heading level; topics

Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Combs, Richard
Nancy Allison wrote: > 2. Create custom markers to identify the beginning of a topic. Question: How > do you indicate the end of the topic? The end of a topic is the beginning of the next topic. Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom

Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Nancy Allison
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Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
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Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Nancy Allison
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Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Jeff Coatsworth
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Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 01/03/2013 11:18 AM, Nancy Allison wrote: > Dang, I think. > Let's say I have a longish chapter: > Chapter Title > Internal TOC > Heading 1 Intro > Heading 2 > Heading 2 > Heading 2 > Heading 1 > Heading 2 > Heading 2 > Heading 2 > Let's say that, of all of that content, the only content I want

Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:54:04 -0600 (CST), Nancy Allison > wrote: >Is there any other approach to chunking text that I'm missing? Yes, use a product that really works with Frame as it is, like Mif2Go... and avoid all the pain you describe, and that would be required for all the responses so

Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Nancy Allison
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2013-03-01 Thread Nancy Allison
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2013-03-01 Thread Nancy Allison
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Reappearing Change Bars

2013-03-01 Thread Kristy Nolan
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FM-to-RH users' list?

2013-03-01 Thread Nancy Allison
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Frame versus XSL-FO

2013-03-01 Thread Scott Prentice
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Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Carol J. Elkins
Nancy, consider creating markers for all headings, regardless of whether you plan to use them or not. Let RoboHelp break them into topics. Then in your RoboHelp TOC and browse sequences, just include the topics that you want. Yes, the unwanted ones will go along for the ride when the file is

Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Nancy Allison
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FM-to-RH users' list?

2013-03-01 Thread Matt Sullivan
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Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Alexandra Duffy
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2013-03-01 Thread Nancy Allison
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Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:08:25 -0600 (CST), Nancy Allison wrote: > Hi, Jeremy. With regard to selecting only some >text from a lengthy .fm file to turn into .html >files, how does mif2go offer better control? By making that selection very simple, and providing a way to apply it automatically

Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Alexandra Duffy
ur PDF > output, (assuming you are single-sourcing to PDF also), correct? Yes, we set up our TOC to pick up the dual formats. Have a nice weekend! Alexandra -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachme

FrameMaker CMS: OpenText Integration

2013-03-01 Thread Rick Quatro
Hello Framers, Has anyone done any FrameMaker integration with OpenText content management system? Or more generally, has anyone done any custom CMS integration with FrameMaker 10 or 11? Any information would be appreciated. Thank you very much. Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc.

Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Robert Lauriston
I create two identical styles, e.g. Heading 2 and Heading 2 Break (or Nobreak, depending on which is the most common), and define them differently in RoboHelp. Using markers is extra work and could cause problems if you have to switch to another tool.

Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Robert Lauriston
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Reappearing Change Bars

2013-03-01 Thread gr...@hedgewizard.net
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Frame versus XSL-FO

2013-03-01 Thread Ben Allums
On 2/27/2013 2:12 PM, Ed Nodland wrote: > I am curious if the high cost of XSL-FO development is due to FO being > more difficult then basic XSLT. We program many XSLTs, some are complex > that merge data from multiple XML files that contain coded data in > tables, tables of descriptions of the

SOLVED: Cannot find the file named...

2013-03-01 Thread David Artman
Ah, Windows 7 It's always Windows, innit? In this case, it's the much-maligned User Access Control settings. 1) Navigate to Control Panel > System and Security > Action Center. 2) Click "Change User Access Control settings". 3) Set the slider to Never Notify and click OK. Double-click your

Frame versus XSL-FO

2013-03-01 Thread Ed Nodland
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Reappearing Change Bars

2013-03-01 Thread Craig Ede
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why is FM's UI so weird and buggy?

2013-03-01 Thread qui...@airmail.net
You have to understand that even what UI experience they had with the Mac they threw away when they orphaned the Mac OS on FrameMaker. It's been solid windows since Version 8. They took the Microsoft design philosophy to heart and are busy fixing things that aren't broken. Including the UI.

Frame versus XSL-FO

2013-03-01 Thread Yves Barbion
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