re-use 101

[Kristy Nolan]

The short answer is no, you do not have to purchase anything else from
West Street. And it is pretty quick to get started using.
Kristy

-----Original Message-----
From: Guy K. Haas [mailto:guy at hiskeyboard.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 11:12 AM
To: Kristy Nolan
Cc: Joel; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: re-use 101

Inset Plus [sic] is free, and looks very interesting, but....

the site does not indicate whether it is a product one can just inject
into one's Structured FrameMaker system, of if one needs to BUY any of
the other West Street Consulting products in order to make use of it.

Kristy, can you address this or should we ask West Street?

--Guy K. Haas
  Software Exegete in Silicon Valley, and sometime
   user of LOADS of text insets




On Wed, March 11, 2009 9:01 am, Kristy Nolan wrote:
> Hi, Joel!
>
> Are you using structured or unstructured Frame? Have you considered 
> using text insets? I found this useful when I had a similar scenario a

> few years ago on unstructured Frame. If you are on structured, check 
> out InsetPlus at West Street Consulting. We have found this to be very

> useful for our docs.
>
> Kristy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Joel
> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 7:36 AM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: re-use 101
>
> I am using Frame 8. I have a set of seven manuals that are close to 
> 100 pages each. Many sections of these manuals are identical, some 
> sections differ in detail in minor ways, and fewer sections differ in 
> more substantial ways. Currently they are all Frame books with each 
> chapter being its own file within the book. There is no re-use of 
> anything at the moment.
>
> This is becoming increasingly burdensome to maintain, as a change to 
> something that appears in all seven manuals requires me to make that 
> change manually in all seven files. I would like to get to re-use, or 
> single-sourcing, but I'm puzzled as to how to get there. Would the 
> best strategy be:
>
> (a) To use conditional text and generate several versions;
>
> (b) To try and convert everything to XML and sew things together based

> on individual XML files;
>
> (c) Something else?
> I have zero XML knowledge, and whenever I read about it, my head
hurts.
> I am willing to learn, but the benefit needs to be commensurate with 
> the pain involved in learning. I'm looking for the simplest solution 
> that allows for some common source material using my existing Frame 
> configuration. Ideas are appreciated.
> Joel
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