Chunking FM files into Topics for RH

Robert Lauriston robert at lauriston.com
Mon Mar 4 10:39:50 PST 2013


The big plus with using paragraph tags is that you are defining
general rules with exceptions, so can make global changes.

For example, if you have been breaking at Heading 1 and Heading 2, but
want to add breaks for Heading 3, it's one change in RoboHelp, plus
applying Heading 3 Nobreak in FrameMaker for the topics where you
don't want breaks.

With markers, you'd have to add a marker for every Heading 3 except
those where you don't want breaks. General rules are not enforced by
the application so there's no way to make global changes. In the long
run, I think that would be a lot of unnecessary extra maintenance work
and over time you'd be likely to accumulate errors as a document
passes through the hands of various authors and editors.

Using paragraph tags also makes it faster and easier to see how any
individual heading is set or change it.



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