RE: general publication quiestion

2006-10-21 Thread Daniel Emory
Your snip below deleted from my original post the main reason I gave for why intentionally blank pages should be unambiguously labeled. The snipped part was: The fact that, more and more, technical manuals are being delivered as computer files, not professionally printed and bound paper

Re: Clear Quest/Case with Framemaker files

2006-10-21 Thread Joe Malin
What he's saying is that FM files are binary, which means they're not composed entirely of printable characters (that's a simplified explanation). You can't do the normal type of ClearCase operation on them. That probably freaks him out. It shouldn't; I have used ClearCase and other SCM products

Re: The Page Left Intentionally Blank

2006-10-21 Thread Daniel Emory
--- Shmuel Wolfson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always felt that This Page Intentionally Left Blank sounds a bit weird. Why would you intentionally leave a page blank? I vote to change it to This Page Left Blank for Double-sided Printing. What about the

Re: Read/write rules question - retaining markup attribute

2006-10-21 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 09:13 AM 10/19/2006, Daniel Osborn wrote: If you use the is fm property rule to translate a markup attribute to a FrameMaker property, the markup attribute does not also appear as a FrameMaker attribute. My question is, is there a way to do this so that the markup attribute does appear as

Re: table numbered lists in tables - can you define it?

2006-10-21 Thread Lynne A. Price
Joanne, On the Basic page of the Table Designer, set Numbering to Column First. --Lynne At 09:35 AM 10/19/2006, That Darned Writer wrote: Hi Frame gurus... I may have known this but forgotten. I checked the archives and the online help and didn't see anything there, so I'm coming to

Re: OT: MIL specs (was RE: general publication quiestion)

2006-10-21 Thread Daniel Emory
Certainly I don't advocate the use of MIL specs for preparing commercial manuals. I do know, however, that most tech writers who produce manuals for commercial products remain blissfully unaware of the problems caused by their outputs. Unlike typical users of commercial products, most users of

Mehr: RE: Generierte Verzeichnisse bei Suche ignorieren

2006-10-21 Thread Diane Gaskill
Grusse WoK, Besuchen Sie auf www.frameusers.com. Sie konnen daran Viele plug-ins finden. Wenn einer dass arbeitet wie Sie wunchen daran ist weiss ich nicht. (Visit www.frameusers.com. You can find many plug-ins on it, but I do not know whether one that works as you want is on it.) But as

RE: Read/write rules question - retaining markup attribute

2006-10-21 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 09:41 AM 10/20/2006, Daniel Osborn wrote: Thanks, it works perfectly. The name of the table format and the attribute value are the same, so no problems there. Daniel, Just remember that it is the user's responsibility to keep the attribute value and table format the same.

Re: table numbered lists in tables - can you define it?

2006-10-21 Thread Peter Gold
Hi, Joaanne: Define the Numbering attribute in the Basic Properties of the table format in the table designer as Column First. HTH Regards, Peter Gold KnowHow ProServices That Darned Writer wrote: Hi Frame gurus... I may have known this but forgotten. I checked the

RE: Multiple Volume Documentation Set

2006-10-21 Thread Sam Beard
Hello, We use Frame for basically what you're talking about, I believe. We have several versions of our main software product and the previous writers set up the documentation using variables and different color text to indicate which words/paragraphs belongs to what version. It works fairly

Re: Link from HTML to PDF

2006-10-21 Thread Stuart Rogers
Spreadbury, David wrote: Pat, You want to set the Document Properties Initial View to force the PDF to open on the specific page. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Pat Christenson Sent: Wed 10/18/2006 12:32 PM To: framers List Subject: Link from HTML to PDF

RE: OT: MIL specs (was RE: general publication quiestion)

2006-10-21 Thread Combs, Richard
Daniel Emory wrote: Certainly I don't advocate the use of MIL specs for preparing commercial manuals. I do know, however, that most tech writers who produce manuals for commercial products remain blissfully unaware of the problems caused by their outputs. A valid point. Although some

Link from HTML to PDF

2006-10-21 Thread Spreadbury, David
I knew that then. I wasn't aware of the solution that Rick Quatro came up with. Rick's response solved Pat's problem and I, as well as many others I would guess, learned something that just might come in handy. -Original Message- From: