Imported text

[Alison Craig]

I write for a Medical Device company and repeated Warnings and Cautions are common - so I keep that text in file and import it as needed. It's much simpler to update a single Warning in the Inset file than to try to find every occurrence of that Warning within 20+ files.

It also saves on translation costs.

Alison 

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Rickaby
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 4:34 AM
To: meg miranda; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Imported text

At 11:04 -0700 22/4/13, meg miranda wrote:

>I just wanted to see how common it is to use imported text files in Frame books.
>
>Do you use this Frame feature?
>If so, do you use it to reuse or share text?

In contrast to what others have posted, I work on textbooks mainly in Frame and the copyright info tends to change, so I don't use text imports for that. Perhaps the most common use for me is importing the author's software code examples. But now that I think about that, there's not a lot of advantage over copy-paste unless they get updated often.

Duplicated common text can also be handled using xrefs.

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