FM9 Hierarchical book groups/folders not excluded from output in RH8

2009-07-06 Thread Shane Taylor
I have a book (unstructured FM) that uses some text insets in some of my chapters in order to reuse content. However, when I create help in RH8, sometimes a few of my cross-references in chapters with text insets aren't treated as links, but as plain text. I think to resolve this, I want to

Re: Can the spelling checker be trusted?

2010-05-28 Thread Shane Taylor
spaces, if it can find any smaller words in your misspelled word. If the assumption were instead that your most likely mistake was to have misspelled a single word, the first suggestion would more often be correct. -- Shane Taylor | Technical Writer WebAssign | 919.829.8181 x147

Re: Annoying FM quirk

2010-11-10 Thread Shane Taylor
FM tends to treat empty paragraphs differently than those containing text. Changing the paragraph style to use a space character as an autonumber *might* fool FM into treating the paragraph correctly, but I haven't tested this. Shane Taylor Technical Writer WebAssign 919.829.8181 x147 On 11

Re: eBooks, EPUB, using FrameMaker

2010-12-09 Thread Shane Taylor
company's proprietary format, and you can take advantage of newer technologies and deliverable types in the future without having to change formats again. Shane Taylor On Dec 8, 2010, at 2:20 PM, ri...@inficon.com wrote: The CEO of my company has asked that I look into eBooks and the EPUB

Re: Scrolling in Framemaker

2011-01-06 Thread Shane Taylor
Another utility I've used for this purpose is KatMouse. Shane On Jan 4, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Britton Hansen (bwhansen) [IMFT] wrote: Andrew, I use the Freewheel.exe application (google freewheel scrolling) to provide scrolling for Framemaker 7. It also provides scrolling for (some) other

Re: DPI Recommendation for Images

2011-03-23 Thread Shane Taylor
for users across platforms, we decided to use 150 DPI because that provides good print output (as a factor of most printer DPI capabilities). Shane Taylor On Mar 22, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Joseph Lorenzini wrote: Hi all, I'd like to get people's opinion on what they think is the best choice

FM9 Hierarchical book groups/folders not excluded from output in RH8

2009-07-06 Thread Shane Taylor
I have a book (unstructured FM) that uses some text insets in some of my chapters in order to reuse content. However, when I create help in RH8, sometimes a few of my cross-references in chapters with text insets aren't treated as links, but as plain text. I think to resolve this, I want to

eBooks, EPUB, using FrameMaker

2010-12-08 Thread Shane Taylor
company's proprietary format, and you can take advantage of newer technologies and deliverable types in the future without having to change formats again. Shane Taylor On Dec 8, 2010, at 2:20 PM, rinch at Inficon.com wrote: > The CEO of my company has asked that I look into eBooks and the E

Can the spelling checker be trusted?

2010-05-27 Thread Shane Taylor
spaces, if it can find any smaller words in your misspelled word. If the assumption were instead that your most likely mistake was to have misspelled a single word, the first suggestion would more often be correct. -- Shane Taylor | Technical Writer WebAssign | 919.829.8181 x147

Scrolling in Framemaker

2011-01-04 Thread Shane Taylor
Another utility I've used for this purpose is KatMouse. Shane On Jan 4, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Britton Hansen (bwhansen) [IMFT] wrote: > Andrew, > > I use the Freewheel.exe application (google "freewheel scrolling") to > provide scrolling for Framemaker 7. > It also provides scrolling for (some)

DPI Recommendation for Images

2011-03-22 Thread Shane Taylor
for users across platforms, we decided to use 150 DPI because that provides good print output (as a factor of most printer DPI capabilities). Shane Taylor On Mar 22, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Joseph Lorenzini wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to get people's opinion on what they think is the be