Re: saving marker and topic title during Mif2GO processing

2008-06-17 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
t with titles not filenames) AliasTitle=No This is implemented in the beta h285i.zip, now available at our download sites. We credited you for the idea in hist52h.txt. Download the beta, unzip it, and copy the dwhtm.dll in it to your \windows\system32 dir over the existing copy. Thank you

Re: Pop-up on hypertext in a pdf document/hypertext?

2008-06-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
spots, links, and topics", shows a popup link. Naturally, you have to allow the popups in your browser for them to work. If you want a popup in non-Help HTML, you need to use JavaScript. Mif2Go also supports inclusion of arbitrary JS wherever you want. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at

Re: MIF to SGML/XML

2008-09-03 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
e list on those two points, and you may get more precise assistance. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages

Re: InDesign as a replacement for Framemaker

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
would they, if all they had to do was copy from their colleague? Guess what; it doesn't happen. We have more license purchases for *additional* copies than for singles. If you treat people as honest, they *are*. If you treat them like criminals, well... you say more about yourself than about them

Re: ePublisher Pro vs. other generated online help

2008-09-12 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ordable, way faster, and we think produces better output. Try the free unlimited demo, and see for yourself: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm >Thanks for any "help" on the help anyone has time to give! HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griff

Re: ePublisher Pro vs. other generated online help

2008-09-18 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
zed that. One reason we can give free copies, with full support, to the unemployed and academics, is that the corporate world supports us very well indeed. >So that's the sad story. Because webworks is the only game in town, >they can get away with the

Re: conversion tables

2008-09-24 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
Book XML", is very thorough. You can download the User's Guide in numerous formats (including DocBook itself ;-) from the same page. The same method, BTW, works nicely for moving from unstructured to structured Frame using DITA. We worked with members of both OASIS TC's dev

Re: FW: Russian Frame->ePublisher problem

2008-09-24 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ne. You might want to try it (free): http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm It's a lot less expensive than the ePP upgrade, and does more for you. IMHO. ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/

Re: Mif2Go Content Models

2008-09-25 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
file, which is an object lesson on why programmers should not write docs. Mea culpa! The primary Mif2Go doc, the 1000-page User's Guide, is much better, because it was written by a real TW. Imagine that! ;-) Please feel free to write us directly if you have any other problems! -- Je

Re: ePublisher Pro vs. other generated online help

2008-09-25 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ious aspects of Frame. For example, I'm not going to post about FrameScript because I know Rick will, and he's the expert on it. But I will post about FM8 Unicode issues that are unrelated to conversion because I know those very well. Thank you, Ri

Re: Problem printing Unicode Character

2008-09-26 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
re CE, CYR, GRK, etc. The code page system was made to provide access to characters within an 8-bit space, and it required remapping of various groups of Unicode characters to fit into that space. Frame 7 and earlier supported that, but Frame 8 does not. Even if you have to replace some fonts, it

Re: FrameVector graphics

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
t for you, for free: http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm In the User's Guide, see par. 29.2, "Converting and exporting graphics", for more considerations and instructions on that. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/

Re: Importing files into FM8

2008-09-28 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
You are dragging them from an Explorer window, right? Try reversing the name sequence in Explorer by clicking on the Name header before you select them. When I do that here, I get them added to the book in the same order as in the Explorer window, regardless of how I select them (click/ shift-click o

Re: MIF2Go issues

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
rly sleuth-ish. I appreciate any help. Your mif2htm.ini file looks fine. If you still have any problems, do write us directly. ;-) HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subsc

Re: Odd keyboard behavior

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
also work, if you are using a non-English keyboard. If you want the actual straight character versions, you have to use Ctrl-` and Ctrl-'. That's the same as in FM7. Other characters in the 80-9F range are handled more gracefully. If you use the Ctrl-q sequences, you get

Re: Odd keyboard behavior

2008-10-16 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
tes. It's never worked for me, and seeing what Frame puts in the MIF, it's hard to understand how it could work for anyone... If you want to send me a Frame file with an example of some you put in that way, I'll see if there's a difference viewing it here. -- Jeremy H. Gri

Re: Odd keyboard behavior

2008-10-16 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:37:02 -0700, "Jeremy H. Griffith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If you >want to send me a Frame file with an example of some you put in >that way, I'll see if there's a difference viewing it here. Dr. Winifred Reng sent me one, and provid

Re: Odd keyboard behavior

2008-10-16 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
checked several times, and it doesn't for me. Totally reproducible. >BTW: I am using the U.S. version 8.0p277, in English only, on a Windows >XP SP3 system.) I'm still using 8.0p273, because of the reported issues with p277 when it came out (posted on Framers). Maybe

Re: Underlining index entries

2008-10-22 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
le, go to the reference page named IX, and find the line(s) containing <$pagenum>. Apply a character format to that whole line with the properties you want. Save, regenerate the IX from the book, and all your page numbers (but not the index entry text) will have the properties you set.

Re: MadCap Flare

2008-10-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
*designed* for single-sourcing from Frame, like ePP, and unlike RH (even in TCS) or Flare. Not to mention being way less expensive than any of them... HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ __

Re: Two-column layout and large graphics

2008-10-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
lumn continue >down the left column below the graphic, then continue to top of the right >column, then below the graphic in the right column. > >Is there a way to do that in FM? Not that I know of. But another possibility would be to set such graphics to go always to the top (or botto

Re: Two-column layout and large graphics

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
oved anchored frame? The old standby is to use a one-celled table to package the frame and the caption, if the more limited table placement options work for you. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ __

Re: ADVANCED QUESTION

2008-10-29 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ut what is under it is your job. You can get the handle of the topmost window there, but Windows itself has no idea what Frame is displaying at that point, and Frame won't tell you in the FDK. Hmmm... ;-) Good luck! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni System

Re: Batch production of PDFs

2008-10-31 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
e surprised if there wasn't a free utility around to send an email with an attachment from the command line... ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Fr

Re: Unable to Build FM Book from Ditamap using Framemaker 8 and XP SP3

2008-10-31 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
Scott Prentice offers a 30-day free trial, and provides excellent support. Highly recommended for anyone seriously using DITA in structured Frame. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ ___ Yo

Re: Server-based (hosted) documentation and user comments (DocBook?)

2008-10-31 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
more. For a discussion on that point, see: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/message/12132 HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers a

Re: Mif2Go Prev and Next navigation macros

2008-11-05 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
later in the >document. Is there a way I can do this? It's not really necessary. We had a similar system before the rewrite of the <$_prev>/<$_next> code, and it was hard to maintain. That's one of the main reasons we made this enhancement. If you continue to have any problem

Re: Mif2Go: removing CRLF from CodeStore content

2008-11-17 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
"strip", and the result would be assigned to the var at the start of the macro var expression. We've already built this, but would like to test it with your case before posting a new beta. Could you kindly send us a one-page test case, including the .fm, .mif, .prj, both .inis, and

Re: ANN: Job seeking

2008-12-02 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
message, but I think it is at least useful for us all to see how >the job market is from time to time. I think it's entirely appropriate, considering the current world economic situation. >(Please don't send any condolences -- this is not the end of the >world -- yet!)

Re: Source Control for Frame

2008-12-09 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
said, if you are just looking for text content comparison, you could SaveAs plain text, and archive *that* in CVS or SVN. Then you'll get it working the way programmers do, which could actually be helpful. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ww

Re: ANN: Job seeking

2008-12-11 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
n. >Every thought about taking over for what's-his-name at GM?.:) LOL! No thanks! He dug his own grave, but we shouldn't put all the employees who had no part in that in there with him. IMHO. All the best! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___

Re: Re-installing FM 8 onto a new drive ...

2008-12-11 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
FM7. If you do use it, test *very* thoroughly, and look in odd corners like variable definitions, xref formats, and those numbering strings. You may be fine, but it's best to find out early if you're not. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/

Re: FM 8 Apostrophe Problem

2008-12-15 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
lem, and that solved it for me. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://www.omsys.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a bl

Re: FM 8 Apostrophe Problem

2008-12-15 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
a non-English keyboard. If you want the >actual straight character versions, you have to use >Ctrl-` and Ctrl-'. That's the same as in FM7. For the record, I'm still using 8.0p273, because of the reported issues with p277 when it

Re: OT: Unexpected event

2012-06-20 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:07:12 -0400, "Rick Quatro" wrote: >I hesitate to put this on the list, but I have been around the FrameMaker >community for a long time, and this is the only contact I have with some of >you. Also, in light of Bruce Foster's sudden disappearance last year, I >thought it wou

Re: FM 7.2: Is there a way to Find a cross-ref and Replace it with another cross-ref?

2012-06-21 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
fact, change as little as you can, just the if you want to change the source in the same file. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list

Re: OT: Unexpected event

2012-06-25 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:48:14 -0700 (PDT), Ken Poshedly wrote: >Rick e-mailed me on Monday that the double bypass surgery was a success and >that >he'll be back online in the near future. He's even trying to update his blog. Thanks for the update; very glad it went well fo

Re: OmniHelp files do not display Symbol fonts properly in IE

2012-06-26 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
eed a test case. We haven't noticed the problem here... To update, you need to create an account on the new Web site for Mif2Go: http://mif2go.com Your user name cannot contain punctuation, so don't use your email address for it; also don't use the one we sent you for the p

Re: Is there interest in an update to the List of Plugins?

2012-07-05 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
that site will go away entirely soon. We'd be delighted, of course, to host an update. Also, if you want, you can create a blog on the new (Drupal) site; blog entries are publically readable, but only site members can comment. Thanks for your good work! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni System

Re: Finding broken links in a PDF

2012-07-12 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ield; that's how we sort out real signups from the frequent spammer attempts. We've had to exclude gmail and hotmail addresses for the same reason... HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___

Re: Single sourcing in the new TCS3

2012-07-24 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
free account to access downloads and Forums; put something Frame-related in the bio so we can distinguish you from the spammers who keep trying to sign up every day. ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___ You are c

Re: educational pricing

2012-07-30 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
Windows version since NT, including in VMs. Enjoy! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com.

Re: FM10 paragraph / character tag display disappearing

2012-08-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
, par. 5.3.2, "Working with FrameMaker ObjectIDs", for more details. BTW, it looks like about 50 or 60 messages were hung up from the list for the last three weeks, including many of Robert's posts like this one; anybody know why? -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at

Re: Frame 7.1/Acrobat 9: unable to generate PS or save as PDF

2012-09-10 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
crobat on the same machine; it will mess you up again. Either look for alternatives to Acrobat for whatever you needed it for, or install it on a different machine. It should be OK to patch Frame 7.1 up again, using the patches you already have. HT

Re: Getting started with Context-Sensitive Help

2012-09-22 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
a new account on: http://dita2go.com (needed to prevent spammers from monopolizing the forums on the site), and download the software, a much easier and faster (10x) alternative to the DITA-OT. -- Jeremy H. Griffith DITA2Go site: http://www.dita2go.com/ _

Re: BookMifWash supplied with Adobe FM10

2012-09-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ry to sign up). It's both amusing and sad when Adobe finally adds a free utility we've provided for the last ten years (at least) as a selling point for the newest, most expensive ever, Frame version... ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni

Re: Question about saving to a .mif

2012-09-24 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
rlier, so Unicode characters that lack representation in those encodings will become "?". Only use MIF 7 if you really need someone with FM 7 or earlier to use the file. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ __

Re: save as... FM 8 Mif

2012-09-28 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
an older version of Trados, you might need a different agency. Anybody know if Trados does support versions later than MIF 8? -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@

Re: Buying an old copy of FrameMaker

2012-10-02 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
t turned so sharply downhill it resembled falling off a cliff... IMNSHO. I still use 8; we have the later ones for testing with Mif2Go, but do not use them for any other purpose. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___

Re: Framemaker 8 freezing with Win7, do Frame 8 patches apply to Win7?

2012-10-02 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:00:45 +1300, Helen Borrie wrote: >Fm 8.0p277 is running fine on my Win 7 box. Same here. It's my workhorse on Win 7 Ultimate; never a crash, not even once. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mi

Re: anybody running FM10 in Linux?

2012-10-06 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
has already run it with the very same MIF files and verified the results are as desired. Since you have Mif2Go, why do you need Robo at all? Its Web help is seriously inferior to OmniHelp. ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ _

Re: Can Frame's default color definitions be changed?

2012-10-16 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
processor. I still have both the steel pica sticks we used when specifying for hot-metal (or foundry type) composition in "real picas", and the one with the IBM logo for the MTST... ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___

Re: Can Frame's default color definitions be changed?

2012-10-17 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 09:08:10 +0100, Steve Rickaby wrote: >At 20:32 -0500 16/10/12, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: > >>...because it was invented by IBM for the MTST >(Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter)... > >You mean there was an *automatic* Selectric? Why >didn't I k

Re: how to create an embedded mini-TOC or similar?

2012-10-19 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
les those links correctly. Like the ones in the generated IX, they link to specific paragraph ObjectIDs, all of which Mif2Go preserves when: [HTMLOptions] ObjectIDs=All Same for Word output, when: [WordOptions] ObjectIDs=All -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. ht

Re: FM openObjectId markers > RoboHelp

2012-10-19 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 09:20:44 -0700 (PDT), Writer wrote: >Doesn't RH have a mini-TOC option? Mif2Go does... has had that for years. See User's Guide par. 20.3, "Including local TOCs". -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.

Re: ANN: List of FrameMaker Utilities and Plugins, v4.0, now available

2012-11-18 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
#x27;t. Fixed now. Thanks for the heads-up! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubsc

Re: Confluence 4 export: the one feature that would justify my upgrading from FM10

2012-11-18 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
Mif2Go User's Guide yet, and also you do need to download the current Mif2Go beta components. AFAIK, Mif2Go is currently the only product that supports Confluence 4.x from Frame, and DITA2Go is the only one supporting it from DITA. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith

Re: Confluence 4 export: the one feature that would justify my upgrading from FM10

2012-11-20 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
consulting job. And you have DITA-FMx, from Leximation, that handles a lot of issues Adobe can't seem to fix. For other formats, good luck... -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___ You are currentl

Re: FM 9 Blinking linked images

2012-11-20 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
before purchase. :-( Alter your workflow to copy the docs and graphics to a local drive, and work on them there. Same problem with RH, and possibly other TCS components. Some may say it works for them, but they are a small minority... -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Sy

Re: Confluence 4 export: the one feature that would justify my upgrading from FM10

2012-11-20 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
y wrong. ;-) Thanks again for helping us to get the XHTML format right; that was also a lot of engineering, and it would have been much more without your critical eye on the testing. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ __

Re: Confluence 4 export: the one feature that would justify my upgrading from FM10

2012-11-21 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
oblem was bulk import. Has anyone tried the workaround of a KB macro to do the import, called in a loop? ;-) There are a lot of free KB macro utilities olut there. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___ You are curren

Re: What is a "PI marker" or "programming instruction marker"

2012-11-28 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ment that I could use. That's why we had to use the XML PIs for it: >Any help? I'd check on the DITA2Go forums, but they seem a bit on the >dead side. We do respond ourselves to posts there. >So I'm turning to my fellow Framers because, if nothing else, >I n

Re: FrameMaker -> online help solution

2012-11-28 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
x27;s a one-line setting in the ini file. No changes at all required in the Frame files. And a *lot* less expensive at $295 (and easier to use) than any other option we know of. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/

Re: What is a "PI marker" or "programming instruction marker"

2012-11-29 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
imilar content). Hope that clears up the requirements for CSH in HTML Help for you, and anyone else who cares. ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as ar

Re: What is a "PI marker" or "programming instruction marker"

2012-11-29 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
e may be more, but most just hand you the OT one way or another. There are some links on the home page of DITA2Go (at the link above). I'd say if someone has a looming deadline, that is **not** the time to start learning how to customize the OT... LOL! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems

Re: What is a "PI marker" or "programming instruction marker"

2012-11-30 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
of the output. >(And if you're missing a control, Jeremy often >adds one for you in an amazingly short time.) Jim should know! Thanks for the kind words! ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___ You

Re: What is a "PI marker" or "programming instruction marker"

2012-12-01 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:21:18 -0800, Robert Lauriston wrote: >I don't see any mention of Oxygen in that thread. Oxygen uses the DITA-OT for output, like most others, so it was directly applicable to Oxygen whether the editor used was Oxygen or not. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Sys

Re: Do FrameMaker files automatically get updated when you print as PDF?

2012-12-07 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
t of template import, not as part of book generation. So if you are importing a template to the single file, those will work just the same as for a book. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___ You

Re: Table that won't sort correctly: wash-up

2012-12-09 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
use Download | Demo Software on the left menu. Follow the five-minute install instructions on the Web page and in the User's Guide; don't try to guess at them! Enjoy! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___

Re: Looking for your favorite FM resources

2012-12-10 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
riffiths, MIF2go That would be: Jeremy H. Griffith (no "s" on the end), Omni Systems, Mif2Go (capitalization). >Rick Quatro, Carmen Publishing, FrameScript/ExtendScript >FrameScript There's Frank Elmore here, and a Euro company too, don't remember the name offhand. >HATT &

Re: Looking for your favorite FM resources

2012-12-10 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
re User Assistance Group; also a few DITA groups for those into it (DITA Awareness Group, DITA for Small Teams Group, probably more). And for DITA, we have DITA2Go, which is free and a lot more together than the OT: http://dita2go.com -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://

Re: mif2go questions and requests

2013-01-27 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
Doesn't sound like you should expect any serious problems. FM 11 is, well, FM 11. I don't use it myself; I prefer 8 for productive work, and the FM 9+ UI is not for those with any visual challenges. But we have lots of customers using it without incident. HTH! -- Jeremy H. Griffith

Re: best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?

2013-02-05 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
o is $295 *perpetual*, with $75/year for upgrades and support. IOW, about 10% of ePP's cost... ;-) >Last time I tried Flare, the FrameMaker import was quite good but it >needed some cleanup so wasn't a replacement for RoboHelp. > >Anything else out there? SuiteHelp, perhaps?

Re: OT: HTML Help Related Topics control and character encoding

2013-02-13 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
Help, though you may think it does. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send

Re: OT: HTML Help Related Topics control and character encoding

2013-02-13 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
=vs.85%29.aspx but one of the values is the character set. They don't say what the syntax for that is, but I'd try 1256, CP1256, and cp-1256 to start. There are also advisories about a "security" "upgrade" from MS that broke this control at: http://www.helpware

Re: "FrameMaker has detected a problem and must quit" Really?!

2013-02-14 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
he Hazeltine "glass teletype" was a great improvement, at 300 baud, no paper, and real lower-case. 80 x 25, but the bottom line was its own status. The reason for 80, BTW, was that is the capacity of a keypunch card. Used them too. The VT-100 was *much* later. ;-) -- Jeremy H.

Re: Cost of software charged outside US borders

2013-02-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
Since the downturn, the majority of our sales have been outside the US, perhaps partly because Adobe makes the large cost advantage of Mif2Go over RH (or the TCS) even more glaring there. ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/

Re: Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
nses so far, in one fell swoop. ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe s

Re: Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

2013-03-01 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
if2Go settings, as in par. 5.4.1, "Applying condition Show/Hide settings". Way simpler than the RH GUI. >Does mif2go make either of those actions unnecessary? No, of course not; it just makes them a lot easier to do, automatically, very quickly, while producing extremely clean HTML.

Re: Distill multipage embedded PDFs when you distill a FM doc

2013-03-03 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
version. Sounds like something TimeSavers would do: http://www.microtype.com/TimeSavers.html -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list mes

Re: OT: FM and InDesign

2013-03-06 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
even consider round-tripping. >I'm hoping as they're both Adobe products, >there's some kind of support. >From Adobe? ROFL! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___ You are currently subscrib

Re: OT: FM and InDesign

2013-03-06 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
e hope are all in the waiting; Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. --T. S. Eliot, in The Four Quartets ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2

Re: Paragraph Formats Alternate Reality

2013-03-21 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
t;. There are two variants: Times New Roman(note the spaces) TimesNewRomanPS Try replacing both of those with Arial and see if that works. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed

Re: migrating from FrameMaker to a wiki

2013-03-23 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
s wiki markup and obsolete. If they ever update that to the new >XHTML format that could solve the problem. How? That would just move them up to the same place Mif2Go is at already; all correctly formatted, but no bulk import. This needs work at tha Atlassian end. -- Jeremy H. Griffith

Re: Very slow paging in FM 10 in graphic-heavy files

2013-04-03 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
irtual >memory; less paging equals much higher performance. That's what Tammy said at the very start, first line of the opening post in the thread: >> FM 10.0 (all patched and current)/Win 7, 64 -bit ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems

Re: Usage question - subjunctive mood? (WAS: anyone looking for a writer?)

2013-04-07 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
hen you misuse esoteric grammar - they may think >you are just being an obnoxious smarty-pants. Our goal is clear >communication first. And thus, to avoid being "hifalutin' ", we return to the original Tech Writers' Motto, which I had on my office wall in 1960: &qu

Re: Framers: What good uses are Pods ?

2013-04-22 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
view one at a time, and edit it, but I often left it up next to the main doc window, along with the modeless Find dialog with which you can step through the markers in your doc as you want. The screen never froze. But using *pods* may make you think it has, because everything gets much slower

Re: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only

2013-05-11 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
interest, we can set it up as a SourceForge project pretty easily (we have a couple of others on SourceForge). We're not set on that name, or on much of anything else except GPL. Greed doesn't always have to win out... ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at

Re: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only

2013-05-13 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
e wysiwyg interface for LaTeX >could be a strong unstructured FM alternative. > >It's years since I used LaTeX much but I found it >pretty good when I did. Not easy, but good. I generally like Don Knuth's thinking, but I feel that task belongs to somebody intimately familia

Re: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only

2013-05-13 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
Web site: http://mif2go.com/download/Omni2Book.zip Comments are welcome. Share freely. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list mes

Re: FM8 and Win8 (Was: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only)

2013-05-13 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
ith us a lot longer, given the disaster MS perpetrated with Win 8. They really can't make enterprise customers "upgrade" to something as ill-conceived as 8... I'd give FM 8 on Win 7 another five years, at least. Not to worry. ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.

ANN: Mif2Go Version 4.1, Update 55, released

2013-05-21 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
mulators. Thank you very much for your interest in Mif2Go! -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.

Re: Anyone know of an FM to TeX "converter"

2013-05-28 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
eparated from the master pages... ;-) We've had maybe five requests for LaTEX... in the last ten years. Not exactly huge demand. But you might see what you could do with our "Generic XML" output, which can be tweaked to produce plain text and probably many more non-XML formats

Re: Converting Older Frame Files to Frame 10: Cannot Lock File Error Message

2013-06-11 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
and re-open the problem file. And if you seem to have a shorter set of menus, try Esc F l k to get out of view-only mode. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@

Re: FrameMaker to Confluence via WebWorks

2013-06-21 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
free unlimited demo version of Mif2Go so you can try it yourself. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.c

Re: Consultants to convert from unstructured Frame to DITA

2013-07-04 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
version tables; otherwise, Mif2Go. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe sen

Re: Eclipse Help from Frame books

2013-07-04 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
#x27;t make. One of the User's Guide versions on the mif2go.com Web site is in Eclipse Help, made directly from a Frame book in a few minutes of processing time. (Setup takes a bit longer. ;-) -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. h

Re: ANN: Thinking about migrating to DITA? FM2DITA can help.

2013-07-22 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
at their Fortune 50 companies... ;-) So we're a tad ahead in this area. Check out both, and decide for yourself. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. http://mif2go.com/ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.

Re: An interesting Mif2Go project - will this work?

2013-08-03 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
can help with the FM work, but he >doesn't know Mif2Go yet. This may not be the best time for him to learn. ;-) >I appreciate any thoughts to set up a good, solid, reproducible >process for this. A few answers, please, and we can probably provide one. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni

Re: An interesting Mif2Go project - will this work?

2013-08-03 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
e autonumbering and the anchor with ini settings, leaving: [3,"Graphics","graphics.htm"], which you can add your other four fields to. As for exclusion, which do you have more of, excluded or included? That will determine the best method. Have you considered conditional text?

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