Scott, Gary: > What you are referring to > doing, Hedley, is operating in a structured environment.
You have misrepresented what I actually said. I have used the DITA XML schema and the DITA-FMx plug-in for FrameMaker to develop structured documentation. But it is certainly a far from trivial exercise to set up the structapp.fm file with all the formatting rules to get your preferred look and feel. You would only take on this level of setting-up overhead if you could amortise the time/cost over a significant number of titles. I do not think Donald was looking to get into structured documentation just yet. He probably has a virtual structure where, in his mind and in his files, Heading 1 /is/ at a higher level than Heading 2. For those who want some of the benefits of structure in unstructured documents without the hassle, I highly recommend Enhance for FrameMaker from Sandybrook Software. You can configure it so that Heading 1 is indeed higher than Heading 2, so that when you collapse the Heading 1 block, any contained Heading 2 subblocks are suppressed but revealed when Heading 1 is expanded again. Enhance works pretty much like the structured view in Word and you can perform all the same operations in Enhance that you can in Word, including outlining when you are developing the structure initially. So for Donald, Enhance is the way to go. A structured document, preferable saved to XML and opened directly from XML (*.fm files are not used at all) has many advantages: you can use all the XML tools on the saved files but work in a friendly WYSIWYG environment. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. "Hedley Finger" <hfin...@handholding.com.au> _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.