RE: Switching to Structured FrameMaker

2009-12-14 Thread Randall C. Reed
or replaced. Structured FM is an effective truth-teller in a multiple-writer environment, provided efficient and competent tools and training have been provided. Randall C. Reed Senior Technical Writer Technical Publications Total Life Cycle Support (o) 843-574-3899 (c) 843-906-5522 -Original Message

Switching to Structured FrameMaker

2009-12-14 Thread Randall C. Reed
retrained or replaced. Structured FM is an effective truth-teller in a multiple-writer environment, provided efficient and competent tools and training have been provided. Randall C. Reed Senior Technical Writer Technical Publications Total Life Cycle Support (o) 843-574-3899 (c) 843-906-5522 ---

Using Attributes on the Reference Page

2009-12-11 Thread Randall C. Reed
for wpnum in each package? Is there another obvious approach I am missing? 3. Am I being completely addled or was there really a way to do this in the olden days? TIA! Randall C. Reed Senior Technical Writer Technical Publications Total Life Cycle Support Force Protection Industries

Using Attributes on the Reference Page

2009-12-11 Thread Randall C. Reed
nt mil spec pubs doing for in each package? Is there another obvious approach I am missing? 3. Am I being completely addled or was there really a way to do this in the "olden days"? TIA! Randall C. Reed Senior Technical Writer Technical Publications Total Life Cycle Support Force

Opinions on FrameMaker Content Management Systems

2009-01-07 Thread Randall C. Reed
. Should we be thinking little ball (Visual Source Safe) or big ball (enterprise content management)? Any opinions welcome. TIA! Randall C. Reed Senior Technical Writer Technical Publications Total Life Cycle Support Force Protection Industries, Inc. (o) 843-574-3899 (c) 843-906-5522

Opinions on FrameMaker Content Management Systems

2009-01-07 Thread Randall C. Reed
. Should we be thinking "little ball" (Visual Source Safe) or "big ball" (enterprise content management)? Any opinions welcome. TIA! Randall C. Reed Senior Technical Writer Technical Publications Total Life Cycle Support Force Protection Industries, Inc. (o) 843-574-38

Correction: Bad Autonumbers

2007-10-04 Thread Randall C. Reed
ame. That doesn't solve my package number problem. But it is good to know. Thanks! ----------- Randall C. Reed wrote: > I cannot get a "work package number" autonumber to work properly in > the files at the beginning of the book. > "P:000<n+>&

Bad Autonumbers

2007-10-04 Thread Randall C. Reed
To: Combs, Richard; Randall C. Reed; framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Bad Autonumbers richard.combs at Polycom.com wrote: > But the autonumber isn't a page number, it's a paragraph number. You > need to set paragraph numbering to continue. Note, however, that this > af

Bad Autonumbers

2007-10-03 Thread Randall C. Reed
to troubleshoot an autonumber problem. Except for digesting 400 files in the book, it should work like a champ, but it is not. What stupid thing am I doing wrong? TIA, Randall C. Reed Senior Technical Writer Force Protection Industries, Inc. This material contains confidential and proprietary

Bad Autonumbers

2007-10-03 Thread Randall C. Reed
09", etc., in this example)? This is crazy. It is just an autonumber. I've been using FM for 13 years and I know it is not suppose to be this hard to troubleshoot an autonumber problem. Except for digesting 400 files in the book, it should work like a champ, but it is not. What stupid thing am I

FrameMaker Server User Interface??

2007-04-19 Thread Randall C. Reed
A few years ago, we installed a server-based version of Frame: No documentation, little product knowledge on the part of the Adobe customer service folks. Now, new company, same need. This time, our IT department tells us that we need software programming to build the interface for the

FrameMaker Server "User Interface"??

2007-04-19 Thread Randall C. Reed
A few years ago, we installed a server-based version of Frame: No documentation, little product knowledge on the part of the Adobe customer service folks. Now, new company, same need. This time, our IT department tells us that we need "software programming to build the interface for the

FrameMaker Tech Writer Positions in Charleston, SC

2007-03-09 Thread Randall C. Reed
, military documentation, electrical harnesses, etc. desirable. Full details are available on the company's web site: http://www.forceprotection.net/about/employment.html. Thanks, Randall C. Reed This material contains confidential and proprietary information of Force Protection, Inc. and its

FrameMaker Tech Writer Positions in Charleston, SC

2007-03-09 Thread Randall C. Reed
, military documentation, electrical harnesses, etc. desirable. Full details are available on the company's web site: http://www.forceprotection.net/about/employment.html. Thanks, Randall C. Reed This material contains confidential and proprietary information of Force Protection, Inc. and its

RE: [BULK] RE: Reasons to structure

2007-02-15 Thread Randall C. Reed
Russ West says: It is so important for any tech writer to learn about structured content... The funny thing is, in the majority of cases, we are not in a position to proselytize for or against structured documentation. That's usually decided several pay grades higher by contract deliverable or

[BULK] RE: Reasons to structure

2007-02-15 Thread Randall C. Reed
Russ West says: "It is so important for any tech writer to learn about structured content..." The funny thing is, in the majority of cases, we are not in a position to proselytize for or against structured documentation. That's usually decided several pay grades higher by contract deliverable or

List of Figures

2007-02-14 Thread Randall C. Reed
I slept through this part of Professor O'Keefe's lecture on using building blocks when making generated lists, so I'm stumped on what should be very easy: I'm doing an LOF that needs to be: tab tab Where the Page Number is a compound running H/F = ( - ) I got <$pagenum>, but that just gets