A vague notion that XML might have some benefits unsupported by any
research is not a sane reason for investing the massive amount of time
and effort required to migrate your source from one format to another.
And if you are considering migrating, you should evaluate other tools
besides
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Unstructured to structured FM?
Hi all
My boss has mentioned the possibility of transferring our unstructured Frame
docs to structured XML format. I have NO experience of structured FM and to be
honest I'm a bit intimidated by it! (Boss is technical but knows
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Unstructured to structured FM?
Hi all
My boss has mentioned the possibility of transferring our unstructured Frame
docs to structured XML format. I have NO experience of structured FM and to be
honest I'm a bit intimidated by it! (Boss is technical
A vague notion that XML might have some benefits unsupported by any
research is not a sane reason for investing the massive amount of time
and effort required to migrate your source from one format to another.
And if you are considering migrating, you should evaluate other tools
besides
Bottom line is that he's correct, but the implementation is pretty labor
intensive especially if you're a small shop, and the payback he's thinking
about may not materialize. Basically, you're adding a set of rules to your
documents that control the formatting and possible uses of different chunks
On top of Art's comments, make sure that you understand what outputs you
need to create and how to create them from structured sources. In terms
of DITA, authoring is easy once you get the hang of it; however, you
need to figure out which tools allow you to create PDFs, online help,
mobile
Hi Laura,
I'd recommend talking to Sarah O'Keefe at Scriptorium Publishing. I'd also
take a look at these:
http://www.scriptorium.com/structure.pdf
http://www.scriptorium.com/category/resources/xmldita/xml-xmldita/
The key question I'd have is ROI on doing this, since these types of
conversions
One other thought is to convert FrameMaker books into a web help system and
deploy that to a web server that anyone in your company could access.
That's a fairly simple exercise to do if you have the technical
communication suite and I can provide a detailed explanation on how to do
that if you
Bottom line is that he's correct, but the implementation is pretty labor
intensive especially if you're a small shop, and the payback he's thinking
about may not materialize. Basically, you're adding a set of rules to your
documents that control the formatting and possible uses of different chunks
On top of Art's comments, make sure that you understand what outputs you
need to create and how to create them from structured sources. In terms
of DITA, authoring is easy once you get the hang of it; however, you
need to figure out which tools allow you to create PDFs, online help,
mobile
Hi all
My boss has mentioned the possibility of transferring our unstructured Frame
docs to structured XML format. I have NO experience of structured FM and to be
honest I'm a bit intimidated by it! (Boss is technical but knows little about
tech writing tools btw)
He thinks that it will make
Hi Laura,
I'd recommend talking to Sarah O'Keefe at Scriptorium Publishing. I'd also
take a look at these:
http://www.scriptorium.com/structure.pdf
http://www.scriptorium.com/category/resources/xmldita/xml-xmldita/
The key question I'd have is ROI on doing this, since these types of
conversions
One other thought is to convert FrameMaker books into a web help system and
deploy that to a web server that anyone in your company could access.
That's a fairly simple exercise to do if you have the technical
communication suite and I can provide a detailed explanation on how to do
that if you
Hi all
My boss has mentioned the possibility of transferring our unstructured Frame
docs to structured XML format. I have NO experience of structured FM and to be
honest I'm a bit intimidated by it! (Boss is technical but knows little about
tech writing tools btw)
He thinks that it will make
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