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Re: How to convince a coworker to NOT use Structured FrameMaker?
Subject:Re: How to convince a coworker to NOT use Structured FrameMaker? From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:27:40 -0800
Every document created using the current configuration is defective. This
sounds to me like enough reason not to use structured FM until the problem is
corrected.
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Gene Kim-Eng
> However, the more
> compelling problem is that our DTD (or, rather, the FM equivalent) is not
> complete. It was developed by a writer who left the company three years ago,
> and nobody here has the knowledge necessary to update the DTD. The
> incomplete nature of the DTD causes problems such as having red elements in
> the structured view (indicating that the XML is not in a valid structure)
> and having paragraph styles that are changed from the default being switched
> back when you're not looking.
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