A fast story: I had a client with a big manual to which we were adding stuff. Each chapter had its own TOC and the entire book had an index, TOC, LOF and LOT. Inserting cross references wasn't working because we were moving things and losing things. To get the page numbers for the entire manual correct, I had to:
1. Generate and update the entire book. 2. Manually generate each chapter TOC to get the page numbers and headings correct in the chapter TOC. This means open each chapter, generate the TOC, save and close. 3. Generate and update the entire book again to make sure the imported TOC files were all updated properly in each file. 4. Spot check to make sure step 3 didn't add pages I didn't expect and thus made the chapter level TOC out of date. 5. Possibly do steps 1 - 4 a second time. This process could take over an hour if I was trapped in steps 4 and 5. I asked Rick if he could write me a script to automate this process because it was tedious, at best. He quoted me a very fair rate that was about half what I was making on the total project. He wrote the script and gave it to me, under the theory that he could sell it to others. The moral of the story? Besides the fact that Rick is a great guy, the script saved me about 20 hours on the project. 20 hours x hourly rate... For your client, it would probably pay for Framescript and the script the first manual it's used for. sharon Sharon Burton 951-369-8590 -----Original Message----- To: Butler,Darren J CTR USAF AFMC 584 CBSS/GBHAC; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TOC within a chapter Hi Darren, Those that won't buy FrameScript will have to settle for either manual method: inserting cross-references to make a chapter TOC, or using Special > Table of Contents to generate a TOC and then import it by reference into the chapter. Considering the significant time savings that a script would bring every time it is used, the "won't buy" argument doesn't make any sense to me. Any serious FrameMaker shop should consider FrameScript as an essential plugin, especially at the bargain price of $149/seat. Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc 585-659-8267 www.frameexpert.com Unfortunately, some of my clients do not have the FrameScript program and a few of them have no plans to purchase it. Therefore, I need a plan "B." I'm considering generating the TOC to a separate file, then importing the TOC as a text inset. Any thoughts on this? _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ 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.
