Re: warnings, cautions, notes in sw documentation
On 31/07/2011 11:42 PM, hessiansx4 wrote: Hello all! I've noticed that the legacy docs I'm currently working on use notes and warnings (no cautions) for a software product. I asked why a warning was used instead of a caution and was told: that's the way we do it here. I've only used warnings when bodily harm could result from some action. How are those of y'all in the sw world doing it? ___ ANSI 2007 says: DANGER: Indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, will result in death or serious injury. This signal word is to be limited to the most extreme situations. WARNING: Indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, could result in death or serious injury. CAUTION: Indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, could result in minor or moderate injury. It may also be used without the safety alert symbol as an alternative to Notice. NOTICE: NOTICE is the preferred signal word to address practices not related to personal injury. The safety alert symbol shall not be used with this signal word. As an alternative to NOTICE the word CAUTION without the safety alert symbol may be used to indicate a message not related to personal injury. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited 3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3 Toronto, ON, Canada M1W 3K5 +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
Re: warnings, cautions, notes in sw documentation
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:42 PM, hessiansx4 hessian...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello all! I've noticed that the legacy docs I'm currently working on use notes and warnings (no cautions) for a software product. Can you share what sort of product it is? -- Milan Davidović http://twitter.com/altmilan http://altmilan.blogspot.com http://ca.linkedin.com/in/milandavidovic ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
RE: warnings, cautions, notes in sw documentation
In the medical device industry (which is where I currently work), we use Warnings, Cautions and Notes in precisely the manner - and order - described below. Only Warnings gets an icon (exclamation point inside a triangle). Alison From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of David Spreadbury Sent: August 1, 2011 5:18 AM To: hessian...@yahoo.com; framers@lists.frameusers.com; mathieu jacquet Subject: RE: warnings, cautions, notes in sw documentation The use of Warnings, Cautions, and Notes, specifically Warnings and Cautions, are used differently in different technologies. Here are some links that may hep you to decide which use best fits your needs: http://www.techcommunicators.com/dkmanual/chap5015.html http://www.techcommunicators.com/emanuals/wrm/chap06/06-13_notes.htm http://www.stc-soc.org/quill/2004-05/warnings.html http://www.tpub.com/content/tentsshelters/TB-9-2320-360-13-P-2/TB-9-2320-360-13-P-20234.htm http://www.techwr-l.com/archives/0403/techwhirl-0403-00541.html http://goodtools.net/pages/SUNstyle/constr8.htm http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/op990/en/SM/SFF/GUID-EA258A9C-D5EA-43BE-9A44-E8B52A0E594F.html And MIL-STD-38784C states: WARNINGS : Highlights an essential operating or maintenance procedure, practice, condition, statement, etc, which, if not strictly observed, could result in injury to, or death of, personnel or long term health hazards. CAUTIONS: Highlights an essential operating or maintenance procedure, practice, condition, statement, etc, which, if not strictly observed, could result in damage to, or destruction of, equipment or loss of mission effectiveness. NOTE: Highlights an essential operating or maintenance procedure, condition, or statement. Another thing that most people don't adhere to is that WARNINGS should come before CAUTIONS, which should come before NOTES, when any two, or all three, may apply to the following paragraph or section. --- Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:42:37 -0700 From: hessian...@yahoo.com Subject: warnings, cautions, notes in sw documentation To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Hello all! I've noticed that the legacy docs I'm currently working on use notes and warnings (no cautions) for a software product. I asked why a warning was used instead of a caution and was told: that's the way we do it here. I've only used warnings when bodily harm could result from some action. How are those of y'all in the sw world doing it? ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
Linking Problem
Good afternoon I’ve been experiencing a tonload of trouble linking to documents in a server where the address contains backslashes “\” and NOT forward slashes “/” Problem: whenever I write the syntax to go to the hypertext link?...FrameMaker does funny things to the link itself…. Example: message URL \\jetblue.com\Docs\Manuals\jbdocs\Flight Operations Training Manual (FOTM).pdf becomes the following when I click “Edit Hypertext Marker”….. message URL \\jetblue.com‡ocs\smanuals\jbdocsƒlight Operations Training Manual (FOTM).pdf I think the use of the backslash is causing this….or……is it a bug??? So I’m trying to use any tool native to FrameMaker to keep the link intact. This has been bothering me for a long time and it’s one of the laundry list items I’ve been trying to cure. Any assistance would be most appreciated…. Eduardo F. Cidade, Sr. Manager Fleet Publications JetBlue Airways 118-29 Queens Boulevard 5th Floor Forest Hills, NY 11375 Phone: 718-709-2884 (Office) 347-684-2782 (Work Cell) Fax: 718-709-2280 To fly: Call 1-800-JETBLUE or log on to jetblue.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
RE: Linking Problem
Hi Eduardo, The backslash in the marker window (sometimes) escapes the character following it. You need to use forward slashes instead. Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-659-8267 r...@frameexpert.com From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Eduardo F. Cidade Sr. Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 3:42 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Linking Problem Good afternoon I’ve been experiencing a tonload of trouble linking to documents in a server where the address contains backslashes “\” and NOT forward slashes “/” Problem: whenever I write the syntax to go to the hypertext link?...FrameMaker does funny things to the link itself…. Example: message URL \\jetblue.com\Docs\Manuals\jbdocs\Flight Operations Training Manual (FOTM).pdf becomes the following when I click “Edit Hypertext Marker”….. message URL \\jetblue.com‡ocs\smanuals\jbdocsƒlight Operations Training Manual (FOTM).pdf I think the use of the backslash is causing this….or……is it a bug??? So I’m trying to use any tool native to FrameMaker to keep the link intact. This has been bothering me for a long time and it’s one of the laundry list items I’ve been trying to cure. Any assistance would be most appreciated…. Eduardo F. Cidade, Sr. Manager Fleet Publications JetBlue Airways 118-29 Queens Boulevard 5th Floor Forest Hills, NY 11375 Phone: 718-709-2884 (Office) 347-684-2782 (Work Cell) Fax: 718-709-2280 To fly: Call 1-800-JETBLUE or log on to jetblue.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
Re: Linking Problem
My reference from Shlomo Perets says to use either *two* backslashes or single forward slashes to indicate folders. (And this applies regardless of which kind of slash your server uses.) Sr On 02/08/2011 3:45 PM, Rick Quatro wrote: Hi Eduardo, The backslash in the marker window (sometimes) escapes the character following it. You need to use forward slashes instead. Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-659-8267 r...@frameexpert.com From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Eduardo F. Cidade Sr. Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 3:42 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Linking Problem Good afternoon I’ve been experiencing a tonload of trouble linking to documents in a server where the address contains backslashes “\” and NOT forward slashes “/” Problem: whenever I write the syntax to go to the hypertext link?...FrameMaker does funny things to the link itself…. Example: message URL \\jetblue.com\Docs\Manuals\jbdocs\Flight Operations Training Manual (FOTM).pdf becomes the following when I click “Edit Hypertext Marker”….. message URL \\jetblue.com‡ocs\smanuals\jbdocsƒlight Operations Training Manual (FOTM).pdf I think the use of the backslash is causing this….or……is it a bug??? So I’m trying to use any tool native to FrameMaker to keep the link intact. This has been bothering me for a long time and it’s one of the laundry list items I’ve been trying to cure. Any assistance would be most appreciated…. -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited 3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3 Toronto, ON, Canada M1W 3K5 +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
Re: Linking Problem
If your are linking to locations on Windows-based systems, enclose the entire link in double-quotes if you have spaces anywhere in filenames or path. Windows truncates the string at the first space but accepts the complete string if enclosed in double quotes (), for example: \\jetblue.com\Docs\Manuals\jbdocs\Flight Operations Training Manual (FOTM).pdf should work. If linking to a server from a Windows platform, backslashes are all that will work. A forward slash results in and error - Invalid switch - /. --- On Tue, 8/2/11, Eduardo F. Cidade Sr. ecid...@zoominternet.net wrote: From: Eduardo F. Cidade Sr. ecid...@zoominternet.net Subject: Linking Problem To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Date: Tuesday, August 2, 2011, 2:41 PM Good afternoon I’ve been experiencing a tonload of trouble linking to documents in a server where the address contains backslashes “\” and NOT forward slashes “/” Problem: whenever I write the syntax to go to the hypertext link?...FrameMaker does funny things to the link itself…. Example: message URL \\jetblue.com\Docs\Manuals\jbdocs\Flight Operations Training Manual (FOTM).pdf becomes the following when I click “Edit Hypertext Marker”….. message URL \\jetblue.com‡ocs\smanuals\jbdocsƒlight Operations Training Manual (FOTM).pdf I think the use of the backslash is causing this….or……is it a bug??? So I’m trying to use any tool native to FrameMaker to keep the link intact. This has been bothering me for a long time and it’s one of the laundry list items I’ve been trying to cure. Any assistance would be most appreciated…. Eduardo F. Cidade, Sr. Manager Fleet Publications JetBlue Airways 118-29 Queens Boulevard 5th Floor Forest Hills, NY 11375 Phone: 718-709-2884 (Office) 347-684-2782 (Work Cell) Fax: 718-709-2280 To fly: Call 1-800-JETBLUE or log on to jetblue.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
Frame 10 crashes and corruption
A couple of us here at work are experiencing repeated Frame 10 crashes and file corruptions while doing *simple* tasks. It so bad that one writer is considering saving all of her work back down to FM9 format and returning to that. Are others having the same problem? We're on WinXP SP3 with FM10.0.1.402. And, on a related note, although I'm sure the developers considered it a feature and not a bug that they introduced, I noticed that the sort order for para styles has been messed with. Again. NOW FM10 is sorting UPPERCASE letters prior to lowercase letters, whereas in FM9 it was lowercase then uppercase. I and a few others fought this battle during the FM9 beta, and as a result the SymbolSortingBeforeAlphaNumeric=On/Off parameter was added to the maker.ini file so you could specify your preferred sort order (in FM8 and older, symbols sorted before alpha/numeric - in FM9, they had them sorting afterwards, unless you changed the parameter.) Might not be a big issue to some people, but when you have shortcuts for the F8 and F9 keys built into your style names, it plays havoc with what styles are applied as compared to what you expect to be applied. -C - CONFIDENTIAL- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may also be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not review, use, copy, or distribute this message. If you receive this email in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply email and then delete this email. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
Re: Re: Linking Problem
nah.that didn't work either.. On Tue 02/08/11 15:57 , Stuart Rogers srog...@phoenix-geophysics.com sent: My reference from Shlomo Perets says to use either *two* backslashes or single forward slashes to indicate folders. (And this applies regardless of which kind of slash your server uses.) Sr On 02/08/2011 3:45 PM, Rick Quatro wrote: Hi Eduardo, The backslash in the marker window (sometimes) escapes the character following it. You need to use forward slashes instead. Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-659-8267 rick@fra meexpert.com From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Eduardo F. Cidade Sr. Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 3:42 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Linking Problem Good afternoon I’ve been experiencing a tonload of trouble linking to documents in a server where the address contains backslashes “\” and NOT forward slashes “/” Problem: whenever I write the syntax to go to the hypertext link?...FrameMaker does funny things to the link itself…. Example: message URL \\jetblue.com\Docs\Manuals\jbdocs\Flight Operations Training Manual (FOTM).pdf becomes the following when I click “Edit Hypertext Marker”….. message URL \\jetblue.com‡ocs\smanuals\jbdocsƒlight Operations Training Manual (FOTM).pdf I think the use of the backslash is causing this….or……is it a bug??? So I’m trying to use any tool native to FrameMaker to keep the link intact. This has been bothering me for a long time and it’s one of the laundry list items I’ve been trying to cure. Any assistance would be most appreciated…. -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited 3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3 Toronto, ON, Canada M1W 3K5 +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
RE: Linking Problem
As others have noted, the backslash is a reserved character in FrameMaker dialog boxes. There is a whole series of backslash codes defined to allow you to type special characters (i.e., characters that you can't produce directly from the keyboard with only the Shift key as a modifier) in dialogs. If you refer to Appendix B of the FrameMaker User Guide (in PDF form in the Documents directory of your FrameMaker installation) you will see that the substitutions in your hypertext command mostly match the backslash codes: \D (Shift+d) produces a double dagger, as in your example \M (Shift+m) is supposed to produce an em-space--no idea why it came through as sm in your example \F (Shift+f) produces a florin, as in your example \j is not defined and therefore comes through as literal characters, as in your example The trick to get FrameMaker to render a literal backslash is to double it. But that doesn't explain why the doubled backslashes at the start of your pathname came through as doubled backslashes in the result--it should have come through as a single. To get doubled backslashes, you should theoretically have needed to type four in a row. -Fred Ridder To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 15:41:49 -0400 Subject: Linking Problem From: ecid...@zoominternet.net Good afternoon I’ve been experiencing a tonload of trouble linking to documents in a server where the address contains backslashes “\” and NOT forward slashes “/” Problem: whenever I write the syntax to go to the hypertext link?...FrameMaker does funny things to the link itself…. Example: message URL \\jetblue.com\Docs\Manuals\jbdocs\Flight Operations Training Manual (FOTM).pdf becomes the following when I click “Edit Hypertext Marker”….. message URL \\jetblue.com‡ocs\smanuals\jbdocsƒlight Operations Training Manual (FOTM).pdf I think the use of the backslash is causing this….or……is it a bug??? So I’m trying to use any tool native to FrameMaker to keep the link intact. This has been bothering me for a long time and it’s one of the laundry list items I’ve been trying to cure. Any assistance would be most appreciated…. Eduardo F. Cidade, Sr. Manager Fleet Publications JetBlue Airways 118-29 Queens Boulevard 5th Floor Forest Hills, NY 11375 Phone: 718-709-2884 (Office) 347-684-2782 (Work Cell) Fax: 718-709-2280 To fly: Call 1-800-JETBLUE or log on to jetblue.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as docu...@hotmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/docudoc%40hotmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
Re: Frame 10 crashes and corruption
Could you give more details on your environment? Could you give some details on how much RAM, how much free space; are the FM files and graphics local or on a server, etc and what exactly do you mean by simple tasks? Are the files and books you're working with FM 10 files, or legacy files that you rolled forward from earlier releases? If they did come from earlier releases, did you MIF-wash the files in 10? For the record, on Win 7 32 and 64 systems with 4-8 G RAM, I don't remember the last time I had a 10 crash. Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com ... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl. -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 I support www.TheGrotonLine.com, hyperlocal news for Groton MA. On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Martinek, Carla cmarti...@zebra.com wrote: A couple of us here at work are experiencing repeated Frame 10 crashes and file corruptions while doing *simple* tasks. It so bad that one writer is considering saving all of her work back down to FM9 format and returning to that. Are others having the same problem? We're on WinXP SP3 with FM10.0.1.402. And, on a related note, although I'm sure the developers considered it a feature and not a bug that they introduced, I noticed that the sort order for para styles has been messed with. Again. NOW FM10 is sorting UPPERCASE letters prior to lowercase letters, whereas in FM9 it was lowercase then uppercase. I and a few others fought this battle during the FM9 beta, and as a result the SymbolSortingBeforeAlphaNumeric=On/Off parameter was added to the maker.ini file so you could specify your preferred sort order (in FM8 and older, symbols sorted before alpha/numeric - in FM9, they had them sorting afterwards, unless you changed the parameter.) Might not be a big issue to some people, but when you have shortcuts for the F8 and F9 keys built into your style names, it plays havoc with what styles are applied as compared to what you expect to be applied. -C - CONFIDENTIAL- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may also be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not review, use, copy, or distribute this message. If you receive this email in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply email and then delete this email. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as art.campb...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/art.campbell%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
Linking Problem......solved
I think it was the way I used the marker I've been using message URL to make the jump Instead, on a Hail Mary Pass, I used this: openlink //jetblue.com/Docs/Manuals/jbdocs/MANUAL SUPPLEMENTS/Onboard Delay Escalation Policy (ODEP).pdf notice how it now reads openlink to make the jump .and it works!.what a lesson I learned today Thank you to all who offered their assistance! Much appreciated Fellow Framers! On Tue 02/08/11 16:28 , Fred Ridder docu...@hotmail.com sent: As others have noted, the backslash is a reserved character in FrameMaker dialog boxes. There is a whole series of backslash codes defined to allow you to type special characters (i.e., characters that you can't produce directly from the keyboard with only the Shift key as a modifier) in dialogs. If you refer to Appendix B of the FrameMaker User Guide (in PDF form in the Documents directory of your FrameMaker installation) you will see that the substitutions in your hypertext command mostly match the backslash codes: D (Shift+d) produces a double dagger, as in your example M (Shift+m) is supposed to produce an em-space--no idea why it came through as sm in your example F (Shift+f) produces a florin, as in your example j is not defined and therefore comes through as literal characters, as in your example The trick to get FrameMaker to render a literal backslash is to double it. But that doesn't explain why the doubled backslashes at the start of your pathname came through as doubled backslashes in the result--it should have come through as a single. To get doubled backslashes, you should theoretically have needed to type four in a row. -Fred Ridder To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 15:41:49 -0400 Subject: Linking Problem From: ecid...@zoominternet.net Good afternoon I’ve been experiencing a tDEFANGED_Onload of trouble linking to documents in a server where the address contains backslashes “” and NOT forward slashes “/” Problem: whenever I write the syntax to go to the hypertext link?...FrameMaker does funny things to the link itself…. Example: message URL \jetblue.comDocsManualsjbdocsFlight Operations Training Manual (FOTM).pdf becomes the following when I click “Edit Hypertext Marker”….. message URL \jetblue.com‡ocssmanualsjbdocsƒlight Operations Training Manual (FOTM).pdf I think the use of the backslash is causing this….or……is it a bug??? So I’m trying to use any tool native to FrameMaker to keep the link intact. This has been bothering me for a long time and it’s one of the laundry list items I’ve been trying to cure. Any assistance would be most appreciated…. Eduardo F. Cidade, Sr. Manager Fleet Publications JetBlue Airways 118-29 Queens Boulevard 5th Floor Forest Hills, NY 11375 Phone: 718-709-2884 (Office) 347-684-2782 (Work Cell) Fax: 718-709-2280 To fly: Call 1-800-JETBLUE or log on to jetblue.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as docu...@hotmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/docudoc%40hotmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
warnings, cautions, notes in sw documentation
On 31/07/2011 11:42 PM, hessiansx4 wrote: > Hello all! I've noticed that the legacy docs I'm currently working on > use notes and warnings (no cautions) for a software product. I asked > why a warning was used instead of a caution and was told: that's the > way we do it here. I've only used warnings when bodily harm could > result from some action. How are those of y'all in the sw world doing > it? ___ ANSI 2007 says: DANGER: Indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, will result in death or serious injury. This signal word is to be limited to the most extreme situations. WARNING: Indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, could result in death or serious injury. CAUTION: Indicates a hazardous situation which, if not avoided, could result in minor or moderate injury. It may also be used without the safety alert symbol as an alternative to "Notice". NOTICE: "NOTICE" is the preferred signal word to address practices not related to personal injury. The safety alert symbol shall not be used with this signal word. As an alternative to "NOTICE" the word "CAUTION" without the safety alert symbol may be used to indicate a message not related to personal injury. HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited 3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3 Toronto, ON, Canada M1W 3K5 +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com
warnings, cautions, notes in sw documentation
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:42 PM, hessiansx4 wrote: > Hello all! I've noticed that the legacy docs I'm currently working on use > notes and warnings (no cautions) for a software product. Can you share what sort of product it is? -- Milan Davidovi? http://twitter.com/altmilan http://altmilan.blogspot.com http://ca.linkedin.com/in/milandavidovic
warnings, cautions, notes in sw documentation
In the medical device industry (which is where I currently work), we use Warnings, Cautions and Notes in precisely the manner - and order - described below. Only Warnings gets an icon (exclamation point inside a triangle). Alison From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of David Spreadbury Sent: August 1, 2011 5:18 AM To: hessiansx4 at yahoo.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com; mathieu jacquet Subject: RE: warnings, cautions, notes in sw documentation The use of Warnings, Cautions, and Notes, specifically Warnings and Cautions, are used differently in different technologies. Here are some links that may hep you to decide which use best fits your needs: http://www.techcommunicators.com/dkmanual/chap5015.html http://www.techcommunicators.com/emanuals/wrm/chap06/06-13_notes.htm http://www.stc-soc.org/quill/2004-05/warnings.html http://www.tpub.com/content/tentsshelters/TB-9-2320-360-13-P-2/TB-9-2320-360-13-P-20234.htm http://www.techwr-l.com/archives/0403/techwhirl-0403-00541.html http://goodtools.net/pages/SUNstyle/constr8.htm http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/op990/en/SM/SFF/GUID-EA258A9C-D5EA-43BE-9A44-E8B52A0E594F.html And MIL-STD-38784C states: WARNINGS : Highlights an essential operating or maintenance procedure, practice, condition, statement, etc, which, if not strictly observed, could result in injury to, or death of, personnel or long term health hazards. CAUTIONS: Highlights an essential operating or maintenance procedure, practice, condition, statement, etc, which, if not strictly observed, could result in damage to, or destruction of, equipment or loss of mission effectiveness. NOTE: Highlights an essential operating or maintenance procedure, condition, or statement. Another thing that most people don't adhere to is that WARNINGS should come before CAUTIONS, which should come before NOTES, when any two, or all three, may apply to the following paragraph or section. --- > Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:42:37 -0700 > From: hessiansx4 at yahoo.com > Subject: warnings, cautions, notes in sw documentation > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > > Hello all! I've noticed that the legacy docs I'm currently working on use > notes and warnings (no cautions) for a software product. I asked why a > warning was used instead of a caution and was told: that's the way we do it > here. I've only used warnings when bodily harm could result from some action. > How are those of y'all in the sw world doing it? -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20110802/3de71276/attachment.html>
Linking Problem
Good afternoon I?ve been experiencing a tonload of trouble linking to documents in a server where the address contains backslashes ?\? and NOT forward slashes ?/? Problem: whenever I write the syntax to go to the hypertext link?...FrameMaker does funny things to the link itself?. Example: message URL \\jetblue.com\Docs\Manuals\jbdocs\Flight Operations Training Manual (FOTM).pdf becomes the following when I click ?Edit Hypertext Marker??.. message URL \\jetblue.com?ocs\smanuals\jbdocs?light Operations Training Manual (FOTM).pdf I think the use of the backslash is causing this?.or??is it a bug??? So I?m trying to use any tool native to FrameMaker to keep the link intact. This has been bothering me for a long time and it?s one of the laundry list items I?ve been trying to cure. Any assistance would be most appreciated?. Eduardo F. Cidade, Sr. Manager Fleet Publications JetBlue Airways 118-29 Queens Boulevard 5th Floor Forest Hills, NY 11375 Phone: 718-709-2884 (Office) 347-684-2782 (Work Cell) Fax: 718-709-2280 To fly: Call 1-800-JETBLUE or log on to jetblue.com
Linking Problem
Hi Eduardo, The backslash in the marker window (sometimes) escapes the character following it. You need to use forward slashes instead. Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-659-8267 rick at frameexpert.com From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Eduardo F. Cidade Sr. Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 3:42 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Linking Problem Good afternoon I?ve been experiencing a tonload of trouble linking to documents in a server where the address contains backslashes ?\? and NOT forward slashes ?/? Problem: whenever I write the syntax to go to the hypertext link?...FrameMaker does funny things to the link itself?. Example: message URL \\jetblue.com\Docs\Manuals\jbdocs\Flight Operations Training Manual (FOTM).pdf becomes the following when I click ?Edit Hypertext Marker??.. message URL \\jetblue.com?ocs\smanuals\jbdocs?light Operations Training Manual (FOTM).pdf I think the use of the backslash is causing this?.or??is it a bug??? So I?m trying to use any tool native to FrameMaker to keep the link intact. This has been bothering me for a long time and it?s one of the laundry list items I?ve been trying to cure. Any assistance would be most appreciated?. Eduardo F. Cidade, Sr. Manager Fleet Publications JetBlue Airways 118-29 Queens Boulevard 5th Floor Forest Hills, NY 11375 Phone: 718-709-2884 (Office) 347-684-2782 (Work Cell) Fax: 718-709-2280 To fly: Call 1-800-JETBLUE or log on to jetblue.com
Linking Problem
My reference from Shlomo Perets says to use either *two* backslashes or single forward slashes to indicate folders. (And this applies regardless of which kind of slash your server uses.) Sr On 02/08/2011 3:45 PM, Rick Quatro wrote: > Hi Eduardo, > > The backslash in the marker window (sometimes) escapes the character > following it. You need to use forward slashes instead. > > Rick > > Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-659-8267 rick at frameexpert.com > > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Eduardo F. > Cidade Sr. Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 3:42 PM To: > framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Linking Problem > > Good afternoon > > I?ve been experiencing a tonload of trouble linking to documents in a > server where the address contains backslashes ?\? and NOT forward > slashes ?/? > > Problem: whenever I write the syntax to go to the hypertext > link?...FrameMaker does funny things to the link itself?. > > Example: > > message URL \\jetblue.com\Docs\Manuals\jbdocs\Flight Operations > Training Manual (FOTM).pdf becomes the following when I click ?Edit > Hypertext Marker??.. message URL > \\jetblue.com?ocs\smanuals\jbdocs?light Operations Training Manual > (FOTM).pdf > > I think the use of the backslash is causing this?.or??is it a bug??? > > So I?m trying to use any tool native to FrameMaker to keep the link > intact. > > This has been bothering me for a long time and it?s one of the > laundry list items I?ve been trying to cure. > > Any assistance would be most appreciated?. > -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited 3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3 Toronto, ON, Canada M1W 3K5 +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com
Linking Problem
If your are linking to locations on Windows-based systems, enclose the entire
link in double-quotes if you have spaces anywhere in filenames or path. Windows
truncates the string at the first space but accepts the complete string if
enclosed in double quotes ("), for example:
"\\jetblue.com\Docs\Manuals\jbdocs\Flight Operations Training Manual (FOTM).pdf"
should work.
If linking to a server from a Windows platform, backslashes are all that will
work. A forward slash results in and error - "Invalid switch - "/".
--- On Tue, 8/2/11, Eduardo F. Cidade Sr. wrote:
From: Eduardo F. Cidade Sr. <ecid...@zoominternet.net>
Subject: Linking Problem
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Date: Tuesday, August 2, 2011, 2:41 PM
Good afternoon
I?ve been experiencing a tonload of trouble linking to documents in a server
where the
address contains backslashes ?\? and NOT forward slashes ?/?
Problem:? whenever I write the syntax to go to the hypertext link?...FrameMaker
does funny
things to the link itself?.
Example:
message URL \\jetblue.com\Docs\Manuals\jbdocs\Flight Operations Training Manual
(FOTM).pdf
becomes the following when I click ?Edit Hypertext Marker??..
message URL \\jetblue.com?ocs\smanuals\jbdocs?light Operations Training Manual
(FOTM).pdf
I think the use of the backslash is causing this?.or??is it a bug???
So I?m trying to use any tool native to FrameMaker to keep the link intact.
This has been bothering me for a long time and it?s one of the laundry list
items I?ve been
trying to cure.
Any assistance would be most appreciated?.
Eduardo F. Cidade, Sr.
Manager Fleet Publications
JetBlue Airways
118-29 Queens Boulevard
5th Floor
Forest Hills, NY? 11375
Phone:? 718-709-2884 (Office)
? ? ? ? ? ? 347-684-2782 (Work Cell)
Fax:? ???718-709-2280
To fly:? Call 1-800-JETBLUE or log on to jetblue.com
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Frame 10 crashes and corruption
A couple of us here at work are experiencing repeated Frame 10 crashes and file corruptions while doing *simple* tasks. It so bad that one writer is considering saving all of her work back down to FM9 format and returning to that. Are others having the same problem? We're on WinXP SP3 with FM10.0.1.402. And, on a related note, although I'm sure the developers considered it a "feature" and not a "bug" that they introduced, I noticed that the sort order for para styles has been messed with. Again. NOW FM10 is sorting UPPERCASE letters prior to lowercase letters, whereas in FM9 it was lowercase then uppercase. I and a few others fought this battle during the FM9 beta, and as a result the SymbolSortingBeforeAlphaNumeric=On/Off parameter was added to the maker.ini file so you could specify your preferred sort order (in FM8 and older, symbols sorted before alpha/numeric - in FM9, they had them sorting afterwards, unless you changed the parameter.) Might not be a big issue to some people, but when you have shortcuts for the F8 and F9 keys built into your style names, it plays havoc with what styles are applied as compared to what you expect to be applied. -C - CONFIDENTIAL- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may also be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not review, use, copy, or distribute this message. If you receive this email in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply email and then delete this email.
Linking Problem
nah.that didn't work either.. On Tue 02/08/11 15:57 , Stuart Rogers srogers at phoenix-geophysics.com sent: > My reference from Shlomo Perets says to use either *two* backslashes or > single forward slashes to indicate folders. (And this applies > regardless of which kind of slash your server uses.) > > Sr > > > On 02/08/2011 3:45 PM, Rick Quatro wrote: > > Hi Eduardo, > > > > The backslash in the marker window (sometimes) > escapes the character> following it. You need to use forward slashes > instead.> > > Rick > > > > Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-659-8267 rick at fra > meexpert.com> > > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com> [framers-bounces at > > lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Eduardo > F.> Cidade Sr. Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 3:42 PM > To:> > framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Linking Problem> > > Good afternoon > > > > I?ve been experiencing a tonload of trouble > linking to documents in a> server where the address contains backslashes > ?\? and NOT forward> slashes ?/? > > > > Problem: whenever I write the syntax to go to the > hypertext> link?...FrameMaker does funny things to the link > itself?.> > > Example: > > > > message URL > \\jetblue.com\Docs\Manuals\jbdocs\Flight Operations> Training Manual > (FOTM).pdf becomes the following > when I click ?Edit> Hypertext Marker??.. message URL > > \\jetblue.com?ocs\smanuals\jbdocs?light > Operations Training Manual> (FOTM).pdf > > > > I think the use of the backslash is causing > this?.or??is it a bug???> > > So I?m trying to use any tool native to > FrameMaker to keep the link> intact. > > > > This has been bothering me for a long time and > it?s one of the> laundry list items I?ve been trying to > cure.> > > Any assistance would be most > appreciated?.> > > > -- > Stuart Rogers > Technical Communicator > Phoenix Geophysics Limited > 3781 Victoria Park Avenue, Unit 3 > Toronto, ON, Canada M1W 3K5 > +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 > > http://www.phoenix-geophysics.com > >
Linking Problem
As others have noted, the backslash is a reserved character in FrameMaker dialog boxes. There is a whole series of backslash codes defined to allow you to type special characters (i.e., characters that you can't produce directly from the keyboard with only the Shift key as a modifier) in dialogs. If you refer to Appendix B of the FrameMaker User Guide (in PDF form in the Documents directory of your FrameMaker installation) you will see that the substitutions in your hypertext command mostly match the backslash codes: \D (Shift+d) produces a double dagger, as in your example \M (Shift+m) is supposed to produce an em-space--no idea why it came through as "sm" in your example \F (Shift+f) produces a florin, as in your example \j is not defined and therefore comes through as literal characters, as in your example The trick to get FrameMaker to render a literal backslash is to double it. But that doesn't explain why the doubled backslashes at the start of your pathname came through as doubled backslashes in the result--it should have come through as a single. To get doubled backslashes, you should theoretically have needed to type four in a row. -Fred Ridder > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 15:41:49 -0400 > Subject: Linking Problem > From: ecidade at zoominternet.net > > Good afternoon > > I?ve been experiencing a tonload of trouble linking to documents in a server > where the > address contains backslashes ?\? and NOT forward slashes ?/? > > Problem: whenever I write the syntax to go to the hypertext > link?...FrameMaker does funny > things to the link itself?. > > Example: > > message URL \\jetblue.com\Docs\Manuals\jbdocs\Flight Operations Training > Manual (FOTM).pdf > becomes the following when I click ?Edit Hypertext Marker??.. > message URL \\jetblue.com?ocs\smanuals\jbdocs?light Operations Training > Manual (FOTM).pdf > > I think the use of the backslash is causing this?.or??is it a bug??? > > So I?m trying to use any tool native to FrameMaker to keep the link intact. > > This has been bothering me for a long time and it?s one of the laundry list > items I?ve been > trying to cure. > > Any assistance would be most appreciated?. > > > Eduardo F. Cidade, Sr. > Manager Fleet Publications > JetBlue Airways > 118-29 Queens Boulevard > 5th Floor > Forest Hills, NY 11375 > Phone: 718-709-2884 (Office) > 347-684-2782 (Work Cell) > Fax: 718-709-2280 > > To fly: Call 1-800-JETBLUE or log on to jetblue.com > > > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as DocuDoc at hotmail.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/docudoc%40hotmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20110802/f9b35273/attachment.html>
Frame 10 crashes and corruption
Could you give more details on your environment? Could you give some details on how much RAM, how much free space; are the FM files and graphics local or on a server, etc and what exactly do you mean by "simple tasks"? Are the files and books you're working with FM 10 files, or legacy files that you rolled forward from earlier releases? If they did come from earlier releases, did you MIF-wash the files in 10? For the record, on Win 7 32 and 64 systems with 4-8 G RAM, I don't remember the last time I had a 10 crash. Art Campbell ? ? ? ? ? ? ? art.campbell at gmail.com ? "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? No disclaimers apply. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? DoD 358 I support www.TheGrotonLine.com, hyperlocal news for Groton MA. On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Martinek, Carla wrote: > A couple of us here at work are experiencing repeated Frame 10 crashes and > file corruptions while doing *simple* tasks. It so bad that one writer is > considering saving all of her work back down to FM9 format and returning to > that. > > Are others having the same problem? > > We're on WinXP SP3 with FM10.0.1.402. > > And, on a related note, although I'm sure the developers considered it a > "feature" and not a "bug" that they introduced, I noticed that the sort order > for para styles has been messed with. ? ? ? ? Again. ? ? ? ? ? NOW FM10 is > sorting UPPERCASE letters prior to lowercase letters, whereas in FM9 it was > lowercase then uppercase. > > I and a few others fought this battle during the FM9 beta, and as a result > the SymbolSortingBeforeAlphaNumeric=On/Off parameter was added to the > maker.ini file so you could specify your preferred sort order (in FM8 and > older, symbols sorted before alpha/numeric - in FM9, they had them sorting > afterwards, unless you changed the parameter.) > > Might not be a big issue to some people, but when you have shortcuts for the > F8 and F9 keys built into your style names, it plays havoc with what styles > are applied as compared to what you expect to be applied. > > -C > > > - CONFIDENTIAL- > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may also > be legally privileged. ?If you are not the intended recipient, you may not > review, use, copy, or distribute this message. If you receive this email in > error, please notify the sender immediately by reply email and then delete > this email. > ___ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as art.campbell at gmail.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/art.campbell%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >
Linking Problem......solved
I think it was the "way" I used the marker I've been using "message URL" to make the jump Instead, on a "Hail Mary Pass", I used this: openlink //jetblue.com/Docs/Manuals/jbdocs/MANUAL SUPPLEMENTS/Onboard Delay Escalation Policy (ODEP).pdf notice how it now reads "openlink" to make the jump .and it works!.what a lesson I learned today Thank you to all who offered their assistance! Much appreciated Fellow Framers! On Tue 02/08/11 16:28 , Fred Ridder docudoc at hotmail.com sent: > As others have noted, the backslash is a reserved character in > FrameMaker dialog boxes. There is a whole series of backslash codes > defined to allow you to type special characters (i.e., characters > that you can't produce directly from the keyboard with only the Shift > key as a modifier) in dialogs. If you refer to Appendix B of the > FrameMaker User Guide (in PDF form in the Documents directory of your > FrameMaker installation) you will see that the substitutions in your > hypertext command mostly match the backslash codes: > D (Shift+d) produces a double dagger, as in your example > M (Shift+m) is supposed to produce an em-space--no idea why it came > through as "sm" in your example > F (Shift+f) produces a florin, as in your example > j is not defined and therefore comes through as literal characters, > as in your example > The trick to get FrameMaker to render a literal backslash is to > double it. But that doesn't explain why the doubled backslashes at > the start of your pathname came through as doubled backslashes in the > result--it should have come through as a single. To get doubled > backslashes, you should theoretically have needed to type four in a > row. > -Fred Ridder > > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > > Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 15:41:49 -0400 > > Subject: Linking Problem > > From: ecidade at zoominternet.net > > > > Good afternoon > > > > I?ve been experiencing a tDEFANGED_Onload of trouble linking to > documents in a server where the > > address contains backslashes ?? and NOT forward slashes ?/? > > > > Problem: whenever I write the syntax to go to the hypertext > link?...FrameMaker does funny > > things to the link itself?. > > > > Example: > > > > message URL \jetblue.comDocsManualsjbdocsFlight Operations Training > Manual (FOTM).pdf > > becomes the following when I click ?Edit Hypertext Marker??.. > > message URL \jetblue.com?ocssmanualsjbdocs?light Operations > Training Manual (FOTM).pdf > > > > I think the use of the backslash is causing this?.or??is it a > bug??? > > > > So I?m trying to use any tool native to FrameMaker to keep the > link intact. > > > > This has been bothering me for a long time and it?s one of the > laundry list items I?ve been > > trying to cure. > > > > Any assistance would be most appreciated?. > > > > > > Eduardo F. Cidade, Sr. > > Manager Fleet Publications > > JetBlue Airways > > 118-29 Queens Boulevard > > 5th Floor > > Forest Hills, NY 11375 > > Phone: 718-709-2884 (Office) > > 347-684-2782 (Work Cell) > > Fax: 718-709-2280 > > > > To fly: Call 1-800-JETBLUE or log on to jetblue.com > > > > > > ___ > > > > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as DocuDoc at hotmail.com. > > > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/docudoc%40hotmail.com > > > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > >
Internal Error 10014 when generating toc/index
Hello, I'm using FrameMaker 10.0.1.402 on Windows 7. I have a very large book file - 30 files that total over 1000 pages. Track changes is enabled. All conditional text is shown. All cross-references are resolved. Sometimes, after generating the book, I will try to save it. I will then receive the error: Internal Error 10014, 6377587, 6370465, 6383969. FrameMaker has detected a serious problem and must quit. Please describe your recent actions and send this, along with the generated file, to fmerror at adobe.com<mailto:fmerror at adobe.com>. Even if I then deleted the generated files, any time I would generate the book, and then try to save it, I would receive the error. At first, it happened when I added the TOC. Then, I was able to add and generate the TOC, but when I tried to use our template, the book crashed. I finally got that to work. Then, I added an index, and the book crashed when I tried to save it. Then, I could add the index, but when I imported reference and master pages, then generated the book and tried to save it, the book crashed. Today, I just opened the book, which had been fine last night, generated it, tried to save it, and the book crashed. I tried all sorts of things this evening, and sometimes the book crashed, sometimes it didn't. I have a very long file that details what I tried. I have it all working now, but I don't know why it works, and I don't know how long it will work. I saved to MIF, but a working book and non-working book are the same number of pages and the same number of characters. I've seen the Adobe support forum topic on this issue, and it doesn't apply here. Has anyone encountered this problem? Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be happening? Thank you! ~Robyn Robyn Chittister robyn.chittister at calchamber.com<mailto:robyn.chittister at calchamber.com> Mobile: (925) 695-5710 -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20110802/45c9d591/attachment.html>
Immovable objects
Hello All FrameMaker 9.0 p255 on Windows Vista. Has anyone else had problems with pods or other objects that just won't move? I was working yesterday in an unstructured document, with the Paragraph Designer and the Paragraph Catalog open. Neither of these was docked - that is, they were overlying the document, and I believe my document was maximized. Neither of the dialogs would move. Dragging the top bar had no effect. Frustrating. Is this a FM9 bug, or a "feature"? Is there perhaps some secret combination of things that causes this (or more to the point, stops it)? Regards, Roger Roger Shuttleworth Technical Documentation AV-BASE Systems Inc. 1000 Air Ontario Drive, Suite 200 London, Ontario N5V 3S4 Tel. 519 691-0919 ext. 330 -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20110802/f87970bd/attachment.html>
warnings, cautions, notes in sw documentation
All the answers I have seen so far seem to relate to HARDWARE. In a SOFTWARE context, I think it's much more common to use something like the following (this is my wording, so no official): Warning: an irrecoverable action (formatting a disk), permanent data loss or other action that may result in an irreversible change to the system (such as deleting a user account) or damage to the hardware Caution: an action that may seriously affect system performance (memory usage), make take an extremely long time (resulting in inability to use the system), may seriously affect the system integrity (like removing password control or disabling a firewall) or loss or changes as listed for a warning that are reversible. Note: an action that may result in inconvenience or confusion or, positively, actions that may make usage easier. Regards, Simon North Technical Writer, Quintiq.
Any way to hide unconditional text?
Hello again, Framers, (FrameMaker 9.0p255, Windows 7 64-bit.) Does the following make sense? Let's say we have 100 text inset files for use in various chapters of various books. Each TI file starts with this: system variable system variable Not a variable; a text description of the text inset file. Not a variable; an indication whether the text inset is app-specific or global. This information is conditionalized with the Metadata tag (which is used only here and nowhere else in any of the TI files). For reporting and versioning purposes, I want to copy and paste each text inset file into a file called "TextInsets.fm". In this file, I want to show ONLY text bearing the Metadata tag. However, although I can hide all of the other condition tags, I can't hide unconditional text. (And I don't want to have to tag unconditional text with a condition called Unconditional, just to be able to hide it...!) Am I overlooking something obvious, or a better way to accomplish this? Thanks for any suggestions, ~~Gay _ Gay Alson Senior Technical Writer Epicor Retail www.epicor.com <http://www.epicor.com> Tel.: (514) 428-2116 Fax: (514) 426-0824 E-mail: galson at epicor.com <mailto:galson at epicor.com> Epicor (Incorporating NSB and CRS) 2800 Trans Canada Highway, Pointe Claire QC H9R 1T1 This e-mail is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not use, disclose or distribute this e-mail without the author's prior permission. We have taken precautions to minimize the risk of transmitting software viruses, but we advise you to carry out your own virus checks on any attachment to this message. We cannot accept liability for any loss or damage caused by software viruses. Le present courriel est envoye a l'intention exclusive de son ou de ses destinataires. Si vous avez recu ce courriel par erreur, veuillez en aviser immediatement l'expediteur et supprimer ce message. Si vous n'etes pas le destinataire vise, nous vous informons que toute utilisation, divulgation ou distribution de cette communication est strictement interdite sans la permission prealable de l'auteur. Des precautions ont ete prises afin de reduire au maximum le risque de transmission de virus informatique, mais nous tenons a vous conseiller de proceder a vos propres verifications antivirus de toute piece jointe a ce message. Aucune responsabilite ne sera assumee a la suite de toute perte ou de tout dommage causes par des virus. This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. www.websense.com -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20110802/e03a0939/attachment.html>
