Creating a Topic ID in FrameMaker for generating HTML help using Mif2Go

2009-07-07 Thread Mark Soiseth
We use FrameMaker 8.0p277 to generate our manuals and then we use Mif2Go to generate HTML help from the same files. The system works but now they want to introduce a few topic IDs. In other words, they want the help button, in certain circumstances, to open the HTML help at certain topics. I

Looking for a technical writer for a permanent position in Toulouse, France

2012-08-23 Thread Mark Soiseth
Hi everyone, I work for a company in Toulouse, France. We're presently looking for someone to fill a permanent position as a technical writer. The ad is in French but you need to possess excellent if not native-quality English as all the writing will be in English. The ad itself is as follows:

Using XML with FrameMaker

2014-03-24 Thread Mark Soiseth
Hi, We're finally using FrameMaker here. I've used it since 5.5.6 but here's a situation I've not seen before. Before, they were using Word and an XML-based authoring system. Word did not play nicely with their automated review process, but, with their XML documents, the author could sign the

Re: Using XML with FrameMaker

2014-03-25 Thread Mark Soiseth
...@lauriston.comwrote: You need to switch to structured mode to edit XML files. On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Mark Soiseth mark.sois...@gmail.com wrote: So, my question is this: can FrameMaker work directly with XML? Or does FrameMaker only work with its binary *.FM file? Thanks

Re: Link checkers

2014-09-25 Thread Mark Soiseth
COTS: Commercial Off The Shelf. On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Robert Lauriston rob...@lauriston.com wrote: Are you talking about hyperlinks to external URLs (message URL), internal hyperlinks (newlink and gotolink), or cross-references? What is COTS? On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:45 AM,

Third party tool to automatically created PDF from a FrameMaker book file

2015-01-27 Thread Mark Soiseth
Hi all, We're creating documentation in PDF format from FrameMaker (for a few lucky projects). At the moment, I manually create a PDF and place it in a specific folder where it is picked up by the build machine. The manager, however, finds this to be old-fashioned and wants the build machine to

Creating a Topic ID in FrameMaker for generating HTML help using Mif2Go

2009-07-07 Thread Mark Soiseth
We use FrameMaker 8.0p277 to generate our manuals and then we use Mif2Go to generate HTML help from the same files. The system works but now they want to introduce a few topic IDs. In other words, they want the help button, in certain circumstances, to open the HTML help at certain topics. I

Looking for a technical writer for a permanent position in Toulouse, France

2012-08-09 Thread Mark Soiseth
Hi everyone, I work for a company in Toulouse, France. We're presently looking for someone to fill a permanent position as a technical writer. The ad is in French but you need to possess excellent if not native-quality English as all the writing will be in English. The ad itself is as follows:

Re: [Framers] Nostalgia - was Re: FrameMaker 2015

2020-04-07 Thread Mark Soiseth
I got a job with a company who used Ventura on the GEM environment. It allowed me to shoot myself in the foot so easily. But, once I learned how to apply the rules, etc., I was amazed. And this was on DOS-based machines with a 8086 chip and only 640 kb of RAM. But, yes, Corel did not do it