Reply to: > Message: 15 > Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:26:10 -0400 > From: "Milan Davidovic" <milan.lists at gmail.com> > Subject: disagreement on overrides > To: "Framer's List" <framers at lists.frameusers.com> > > > The way I've been "brought up" as a Frame user was to avoid overrides wherever possible.
Hi Milan, In my opinion, overrides are convenient during draft production if I wish to produce a temporary file set or PDF. I often change text color or font size for emphasis to catch the attention of reviewers. In fact, I have a character tag and a paragraph tag, each named "WriterComment", that change text size, use san serif font, are underlined, and use magenta color. They also come with a change bar in the margin. Reviewers who use PDF or printed copies are able to quickly find any specific trouble areas that are of concern to me. For final production, I like to be able to update and generate and be done. I just need to scan through the document after the final update and generation of TOC, Index, etc. Even for page breaks, overrides can be a problem. We use a "PageBreak" paragraph tag that is designed to start at the top of the next page and to take up no usable text space, such that the following paragraph can use any existing paragraph tag and will be presented correctly, as designed. The Page Break override can be lost at an inconvenient time, which is especially troublesome when creating the final output. A "clean" document (meaning no overrides and freshly updated with generated files freshly regenerated) is highly valuable as a final source document for production and for storage in a document archive for the next writer. Page breaks in generated files can be difficult, especially when a common template style (different templates, but all following a common style guide) is used for multiple output formats and document types. Dressing up page breaks in generated files can be quick for small documents, but may be extremely time-consuming for large documents or document sets. If tags and formatting can be arranged to allow updating and regenerating to produce the final copy, production can be more smoothly coordinated. ...my personal opinions... Good luck with your work, Ed DeRosier Anritsu Technical Publications