Re: Docbook versus Home-Grown

2006-10-08 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 11:22 -0700 7/10/06, Joe Malin wrote: Well, I *finally* finished the new book for our next software release, so I can justifiably turn my attention to getting myself into structured docs. I am not going to go with DITA just yet. My plan is to convert my existing unstructured docs to

Camtasia

2006-10-08 Thread James Barrow
Hmmm...is there a Camtasia list that I can join? Let's see if I can get away with posting a question here and on WWP :^) Now that I've finished my documentation, my boss wants me to create tutorials, so he purchased Camtasia. Very nice application. I listened to/looked at some of the tutorials

Re: Copy-and-paste from FrameMaker PDF to text editor, preserving leading spaces?

2006-10-08 Thread Shlomo Perets
Guy, You wrote: If I create a document in FrameMaker, and it contains some blocks of sample code... and the code indents blocks for readability... and I want the reader to be able to copy from the code material and paste into a Plain Old Text Editor... is there any way you know of to do

RE: Docbook versus Home-Grown

2006-10-08 Thread Joe Malin
Thanks for the quick reply. I have worked in structured FM before, using someone else's EDD. I think I understand structure pretty well. I have worked with XML and HTML quite extensively both as a software developer and as a writer. I don't mind writing an EDD from the ground up. What I want to

Docbook versus Home-Grown

2006-10-08 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 11:22 -0700 7/10/06, Joe Malin wrote: >Well, I *finally* finished the new book for our next software release, so I >can justifiably turn my attention to getting myself into structured docs. > >I am not going to go with DITA just yet. My plan is to convert my existing >unstructured docs to

Camtasia

2006-10-08 Thread James Barrow
Hmmm...is there a Camtasia list that I can join? Let's see if I can get away with posting a question here and on WWP :^) Now that I've finished my documentation, my boss wants me to create tutorials, so he purchased Camtasia. Very nice application. I listened to/looked at some of the tutorials

Copy-and-paste from FrameMaker PDF to text editor, preserving leading spaces?

2006-10-08 Thread Shlomo Perets
Guy, You wrote: >If I create a document in FrameMaker, and it contains some blocks of >sample code... > >and the code indents blocks for readability... > >and I want the reader to be able to copy from the code material and >paste into a Plain Old Text Editor... > >is there any way you know of to

Docbook versus Home-Grown

2006-10-08 Thread Joe Malin
Thanks for the quick reply. I have worked in structured FM before, using someone else's EDD. I think I understand structure pretty well. I have worked with XML and HTML quite extensively both as a software developer and as a writer. I don't mind writing an EDD from the ground up. What I want to

OS 9 Applications on Tiger

2006-10-08 Thread Ann Zdunczyk
Hi All, I have a G5 running Panther that I purchased several years ago. A purchased an upgrade for one of my applications and it requires OS 10.4 (Tiger) to run. I was told by the Apple rep that Tiger would run my OS 9 applications on this machine just fine. Since I do not have the New Mac

Docbook versus Home-Grown

2006-10-08 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 03:21 PM 10/8/2006, Joe Malin wrote: >I don't mind writing an EDD from the ground up. What I want to avoid is >producing an EDD that is off-track from easy conversion to DocBook XML. >My overall goal is to convert my unstructured FM to structured FM and >then to XML on the way to HTML.