[possible idiot question] Can DITA 8 live in FM 7?
Has anyone tried creating a DITA document in FM 8, saving as FM 7 MIF, and then opening in unstructured 7.1 / 2? Can the 7.x user make text edits (not wholesale reformatting or tag changes) without trashing the "hidden" DITA structure and data? Thanks, Art -- Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358
Re: [possible idiot question] Can DITA 8 live in FM 7?
Hi Art... Opening a structured document in unstructured mode will wipe out all of the structure. However, you can save an FM8 DITA file to an FM7 or MIF7 file and open it in FM7.x (as long as structured mode is enabled), make edits, then reopen in FM8 and save back to XML. It's possible that while in FM7.x if the wrong thing is edited, you might break a reference of some kind, but in general it *should* work. Note that it's not really recommended that you save DITA XML files to FM binary files and edit them (in FM8 or otherwise). People do this and in general it works fine, but you can run into problems saving back to XML and some of the "auto-open" features don't work right. However, you can install DITA-FMx 0.0 (free) on FM7.1 or FM7.2 and then you're able to open/edit an FM8 DITA XML file then give it back to the FM8 author and all would work just fine. (There's nothing special about an FM8 DITA file .. it's just DITA XML .. you can open/edit in any XML editor.) http://www.leximation.com/dita-fmx/ Cheers! ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Art Campbell wrote: > Has anyone tried creating a DITA document in FM 8, saving as FM 7 MIF, > and then opening in unstructured 7.1 / 2? > Can the 7.x user make text edits (not wholesale reformatting or tag > changes) without trashing the "hidden" DITA structure and data? > > Thanks, > Art > > ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
[possible idiot question] Can DITA 8 live in FM 7?
Hi Art... Opening a structured document in unstructured mode will wipe out all of the structure. However, you can save an FM8 DITA file to an FM7 or MIF7 file and open it in FM7.x (as long as structured mode is enabled), make edits, then reopen in FM8 and save back to XML. It's possible that while in FM7.x if the wrong thing is edited, you might break a reference of some kind, but in general it *should* work. Note that it's not really recommended that you save DITA XML files to FM binary files and edit them (in FM8 or otherwise). People do this and in general it works fine, but you can run into problems saving back to XML and some of the "auto-open" features don't work right. However, you can install DITA-FMx 0.0 (free) on FM7.1 or FM7.2 and then you're able to open/edit an FM8 DITA XML file then give it back to the FM8 author and all would work just fine. (There's nothing special about an FM8 DITA file .. it's just DITA XML .. you can open/edit in any XML editor.) http://www.leximation.com/dita-fmx/ Cheers! ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Art Campbell wrote: > Has anyone tried creating a DITA document in FM 8, saving as FM 7 MIF, > and then opening in unstructured 7.1 / 2? > Can the 7.x user make text edits (not wholesale reformatting or tag > changes) without trashing the "hidden" DITA structure and data? > > Thanks, > Art > >
[possible idiot question] Can DITA 8 live in FM 7?
Has anyone tried creating a DITA document in FM 8, saving as FM 7 MIF, and then opening in unstructured 7.1 / 2? Can the 7.x user make text edits (not wholesale reformatting or tag changes) without trashing the "hidden" DITA structure and data? Thanks, Art -- Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.