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Quadralay's WebWorks Publisher, now at version 5/2000, creates HTML and HTML
help from FrameMaker documents. I'm just starting down that path now, so
check back with me in a month <g>.
Sean
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Elna Tymes [mailto:etymes -at- LTS -dot- COM]
>>>Sent: Thursday, April 29, 1999 3:25 PM
>>>To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>>>Subject: Re: Frame, CSS, Netscape problem
>>>
>>>
>>>Chris Hamilton wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm translating Frame to HTML.
>>>
>>>That's your first mistake.
>>>
>>>> It looks nice in IE4, but text in the UL
>>>> and OL tags look like garbage in Netscape. I try to go
>>>into the CSS and
>>>> change the attributes for the related class and the
>>>changes aren't made
>>>> when I save them and reload the page. I can change the
>>>font size, font,
>>>> text indent, or pretty much anything else and the change
>>>is made in IE,
>>>> but not Netscape.
>>>
>>>Yup. Yup. Yup.
>>>
>>>> Has anyone had the same problem with Frame-generated CSSs
>>>or other CSSs
>>>> in Netscape? If so, how did you get around it?
>>>
>>>DO NOT attempt to use Frame to generate HTML. If you're
>>>using Frame as source
>>>files, go through something else - I forget the name, is it
>>>Quadralay? - that
>>>more nearly accurately translates Frame files into HTML.
>>>
>>>I swear the biggest patch of grey hair on my head - no you
>>>can't see it; thank
>>>you Clairol - is because of what happened when we were told
>>>we HAD to use Frame
>>>to generate HTML. You're right - uggggggly!
>>>
>>>Elna Tymes
>>>Los Trancos Systems