Structured and Standard FM 7.2

[Klaus Mueller]

Hello Art,

I totally agree: When opening structured documents with
unstructured FrameMaker, a warning message should appear.

The only problem is that Structured FrameMaker does
unnecessarily and counterproductively write structure
information in unstructured documents when creating
MIF files which is causing unneeded error messages in
different workflows.

Kind regards,
Klaus


--- Original Message ---
From: Art Campbell
Date: 04.12.2008 20:21
> Well,
> 
> I'd venture the minority opinion that I'd rather have the warning
> messages display, even if they're a false warning... If I'm opening a
> new document, I'd much rather know that I may be blowing away
> structured info (the warning appears when you're opening a correctly
> structured doc too, as far as I know) before I do it.
> 
> And... I think a key statement is: "If multiple people (with
> differently set FM structure modes) are working with such documents, "
> -- in most production environments, including those that include
> routine translation, there should be tight enough control that only
> one flavor of a program (in this case, the structured interface of FM
> is in use).
> 
> Art