Engineers as authors

2013-10-07 Thread Milan Davidović
It looks as though the documentation they create has the potential to reduce the time they spend on those tasks. Aside from being "open" to the new responsibilities, do they see how it benefits them? Or do they simply see more work? --Milan Davidovi? Sent from my Yost 10 On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at

Engineers as authors

2013-10-07 Thread Milan Davidović
How are the engineers responding to this? --Milan Davidovi? Sent from my Yost 10 On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Stephen O'Brien wrote: > A few mechanical engineers have been asked, as part of their varied > workload, to author certain documents in English (How To, Webinars, > software essen

Re: Engineers as authors

2013-10-07 Thread Milan Davidović
It looks as though the documentation they create has the potential to reduce the time they spend on those tasks. Aside from being "open" to the new responsibilities, do they see how it benefits them? Or do they simply see more work? --Milan Davidović Sent from my Yost 10 On Mon, Oct

Re: Engineers as authors

2013-10-07 Thread Milan Davidović
How are the engineers responding to this? --Milan Davidović Sent from my Yost 10 On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Stephen O'Brien wrote: > A few mechanical engineers have been asked, as part of their varied > workload, to author certain documents in English (How To, Webinars,

The Adobe credit card issue may indeed be a major issue - PLEASE READ - URGENT

2013-10-06 Thread Milan Davidović
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) wrote: > That added cost would be smaller per person/account than the cost (not just > money) of dealing with the resulting fraud costs. Honestly, just asking questions; no other rationale; I wonder *how* much of a diff

The Adobe credit card issue may indeed be a major issue - PLEASE READ - URGENT

2013-10-06 Thread Milan Davidović
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) wrote: > Without this, the crooks *would* have made off with those $1000 worth of > goods - even though I would NOT have been personally liable. And that cost > would have been "passed on to everybody in general". And

The Adobe credit card issue may indeed be a major issue - PLEASE READ - URGENT

2013-10-06 Thread Milan Davidović
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Alan Litchfield wrote: > some does not thing to reduce the effect of criminals who have been provided > with the means for gaining access to *our money*. So, per the terms and conditions of your credit card, you're on the hook? --Milan Davidovi? Sent from my Yost

Re: The Adobe credit card issue may indeed be a major issue - PLEASE READ - URGENT

2013-10-06 Thread Milan Davidović
h of a difference there is between the two. --Milan Davidović Sent from my Yost 10 ___ 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-un

Re: The Adobe credit card issue may indeed be a major issue - PLEASE READ - URGENT

2013-10-06 Thread Milan Davidović
general". And the cost of better security wouldn't have been? --Milan Davidović Sent from my Yost 10 ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscri

Re: The Adobe credit card issue may indeed be a major issue - PLEASE READ - URGENT

2013-10-06 Thread Milan Davidović
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Alan Litchfield wrote: > some does not thing to reduce the effect of criminals who have been provided > with the means for gaining access to *our money*. So, per the terms and conditions of your credit card, you're on the hook? --Milan Davidović S

PDF publishing with FrameMaker 11

2012-10-16 Thread Milan Davidović
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Kapil Verma wrote: > ...observations with slow performance when publishing to PDF with FrameMaker > 11 > as compared to the previous version of FrameMaker. I wanted to let you know > that we have not found such issues when doing internal testing... I don't work

Re: PDF publishing with FrameMaker 11

2012-10-16 Thread Milan Davidović
I don't work in software, so this may be obvious to those who do: could I infer from the above that Adobe benchmarked FM11 against earlier versions for publishing to PDF? Thanks. -- Milan Davidović http://twitter.com/altmilan http://altmilan.blogspot.com http://ca.linkedin.com/

Scary responsibility in job ad

2011-10-07 Thread Milan Davidović
Have you written on this one in more detail anywhere (e.g. blog, newsletter)? Or do you know of a more extensive account on something similar by someone else? -- Milan Davidovi? http://twitter.com/altmilan http://altmilan.blogspot.com http://ca.linkedin.com/in/milandavidovic On Fri, Oct 7, 2011

Re: Scary responsibility in job ad

2011-10-07 Thread Milan Davidović
Have you written on this one in more detail anywhere (e.g. blog, newsletter)? Or do you know of a more extensive account on something similar by someone else? -- Milan Davidović http://twitter.com/altmilan http://altmilan.blogspot.com http://ca.linkedin.com/in/milandavidovic On Fri, Oct 7

Coaching engineers

2011-10-06 Thread Milan Davidović
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Ron Tillotson wrote: > In the role of a technical writing consultant, contracted to coach or > facilitate a learning process to give > engineers the opportunity to improve specific writing skills, can be very > effective. Quantitative analysts (virtually all of wh

Re: Coaching engineers

2011-10-06 Thread Milan Davidović
ually all of whom use English as a second language), in my case... -- 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

warnings, cautions, notes in sw documentation

2011-08-02 Thread Milan Davidović
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.bl

Re: warnings, cautions, notes in sw documentation

2011-08-02 Thread Milan Davidović
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 Davidović http://twitter.c

Frame Light, what's the potential market?

2011-02-22 Thread Milan Davidović
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Dr Rick Smith wrote: > I admit I'm astonished that any software product manager could ask about the > market for a "Light" version of their product. > > I thought the industry had already proven - time and again - that such things > never thrive. Do you consider

Re: Frame Light, what's the potential market?

2011-02-22 Thread Milan Davidović
gs > never thrive. Do you consider Adobe's "Elements" versions as "light" (e.g. Photoshop Elements)? I have no sales figures for them, but my impression is that they do OK. -- Milan Davidović http://twitter.com/altmilan http://altmila

Structured FM and DITA

2011-01-27 Thread Milan Davidović
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 4:36 PM, VLM TechSubs wrote: > Thinking here about moving from unstructured FM to structured It's off the topic of your request, but could you tell us briefly about what got you thinking about making the move? -- Milan Davidovi? http://twitter.com/altmilan http://altmila

Re: Structured FM and DITA

2011-01-27 Thread Milan Davidović
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 4:36 PM, VLM TechSubs wrote: > Thinking here about moving from unstructured FM to structured It's off the topic of your request, but could you tell us briefly about what got you thinking about making the move? -- Milan Davidović http://twitter.com/altmi

custom master page, reverting back to left/right

2010-12-16 Thread Milan Davidović
In Frame 7, I apply a master page to the first body page of a file in a book. When I update the book, that first body page has gone back to left/right master page usage. What would account for that? Thanks. -- Milan Davidovi? http://twitter.com/altmilan http://altmilan.blogspot.com http://ca.lin

custom master page, reverting back to left/right

2010-12-16 Thread Milan Davidović
In Frame 7, I apply a master page to the first body page of a file in a book. When I update the book, that first body page has gone back to left/right master page usage. What would account for that? Thanks. -- Milan Davidović http://twitter.com/altmilan http://altmilan.blogspot.com http

How do I add a recurring decimal dot above the last digit of a number?

2010-04-13 Thread Milan Davidović
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) wrote: > This document is written in English (specifically, Palatino Linotype for > general text and Consolas fonts in certain places) and have a need to add the > "recurring decimal" dot above a number. (There isn't a

Re: How do I add a recurring decimal dot above the last digit of a number?

2010-04-13 Thread Milan Davidović
r. (There isn't any current need to > change this document into another language, by the way.) This may be of interest to others reading this thread: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeating_decimal#Notation -- Milan Davidović http://twitter.com/altmilan http://altmilan.blogspot.co