Variables vs Cross-references vs Text Insets [WAS: Hiding Pages?]

[David Bills]

Eric,

It may not be a relevant issue for you, but our department switched from 
xrefs to variables because the less experienced Frame users kept breaking 
the links and generating unresolved xrefs. We didn't think this would be 
difficult problem to resolve, but a number of the writers kept breaking the 
links after they had been trained, so we changed the way we managed the 
nomenclatures.

The point I'm attempting to make is that large departments, particularly 
those that weigh specialized technical skills and experience higher than 
desktop publishing skills, should factor the Frame capabilities of their 
less skilled Frame users into these types of decisions.

Dave Bills


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <eric.dunn at ca.transport.bombardier.com>
To: "John Posada" <jposada01 at yahoo.com>
Cc: <framers at frameusers.com>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: Variables vs Cross-references vs Text Insets [WAS: Hiding 
Pages?]


The text content of a cross-reference is limited by what you can build
using the Xref building blocks. It may be possible to have a Xref that
produces multiple paragraphs (Using \R in the def?) but I doubt it would
be workable.

But to combine multiple paragraphs, you need to have information that's
consistently tagged and organised. Then, it's only really workable to
create strings as I have done.

For multiple paras, I'd stick to insets.

Eric L. Dunn
Senior Technical Writer

framers-bounces+eric.dunn=ca.transport.bombardier.com at lists.frameusers.com
wrote on 06/09/2006 10:41:06 AM:

> No...I've imported documents that were hundreds of pages long into
> another document.

> Of course, everything has a limit...maybe a million pages might be a
> problem?

> > than one chapter.  Is there a limit to how much text you can insert
> > with a cross reference?  My introductions often are two or three
> > paragraphs.

>
> John Posada
> Senior Technical Writer

> "So long and thanks for all the fish."
> _______________________________________________


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