Do not rule out ignorance as a reason for overrides. Is the other writer
fully trained in FrameMaker? It is possible that their training was OJT
at another assignment, and they never learned how to use Frame properly.
It is also possible that the templates that you have are not properly
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Milan Davidovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Have any of you been on either side of such a difference in approach,
and how did you go about resolving it?
OK, there are some good, constructive ideas here -- lots to think
about. Thank you.
--
Milan Davidovic
My team uses a relatively new set of templates that we developed
ourselves. Since we are applying theses templates to a fairly complex
set of documents, we sometimes need to update the templates for
situations that may arise. This means that we may have to modify
existing tags, master pages,
Well, I'm with you and your approach simply because it makes it much
easier to work on and to ensure consistency, because only the person
who created them knows what the override is supposed to do.
There's also the possibility that the override will be interpreted
somewhat differently than its
Milan Davidovic wrote:
The way I've been brought up as a Frame user was to avoid overrides
wherever possible. I'm now working with a writer who is much more
liberal about overrides than I am. We currently work only on
unstructured Frame documents; output is PDF (to print from or for use
The only good argument I've seen for overrides as a normal way of
working is to control breaks across frames, columns, and pages, for a
particular round of publication. They can be removed in one operation
by importing a document's formats to itself, and choosing to remove
overrides. Before saving
- Original Message
From: Peter Gold [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Combs, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Framer's List framers@lists.frameusers.com
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 3:42:14 PM
Subject: Re: disagreement on overrides
The only good argument I've seen for overrides as a normal way of
working
The way I've been brought up as a Frame user was to avoid overrides
wherever possible. I'm now working with a writer who is much more
liberal about overrides than I am. We currently work only on
unstructured Frame documents; output is PDF (to print from or for use
onscreen). Right now, we're
