FW: Requesting help with 40051-2, conditional text: SUMMARY

Tue Sep 29 05:25:38 PDT 2009

2009-09-29-02T12:25Z

Thanks to all who responded, naming (only the first five in order of receipt):  Alan Houser, Sarah O'Keefe, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson, Nadine Murray, "theboggette," et al.

To help clarify:
  1.  We were provided the document type definition by a US Army major command, and (until permitted otherwise), we're not allowed to change it.  Therefore, our .edd is similarly fixed.
  2.  We are not using Darwin Information Typing Architecture.
  3.  In FrameMaker (unstructured), we encoded only whole paragraphs with conditional text.  It seems as though we need to continue doing that in structured - including the opening and closing tags for those paragraphs.
  4.  For those who read my posting as a possible solicitation for employment, sorry.  I didn't mean to imply that and wish all of you well in whatever your journeys hold next.

Art Campbell, thanks for the tips about Free Framers list at omsys.com, the Yahoo Structured FM group, and the structured and unstructured FrameMaker forums at adobe.com.  I might try Free Framers.  As for Yahoo, I don't think I can "get there from here" because of information security restrictions.  My postings to the forum at adobe dot com did not get through, either.

Fei Min Lorente, I might check in with you.

¡Thanks! and regards to all,

Dave Stamm
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General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc.
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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Stamm, David-P45904
Sent: 2009-September-28-Monday 09:19
To: FrameMaker user's list posting
Subject: Requesting help with 40051-2, conditional text

Posting a fourth time:  earlier postings did not get through

Adobe® FrameMaker® 8.0p277 (2008-05-23-07) structured

US Army DTD as provided by Writer / Editor, US Army major command.

We are shifting from FrameMaker unstructured into structured.  Our first project is to conform to the DTD.  We have _lots_ of passages encoded with conditional text, and I hoping there's a wise, reasonably-easy way to sort this out.

If you have experience with adapting to the DTD - especially in transition from unstructured documents, please contact me off-line.

"¡Thanks! in advance for your help and
Regards