Version Control Suggestions

[Robert Lauriston]

What was the advantage of doing that over using the .fm binaries? Or
was it just that the system didn't support binaries?

I've spent a lot of time poking around in MIF files troubleshooting
problems, and I can't quite imagine doing a merge. It doesn't seem
like a practical format for that kind of workflow.

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Craig Ede <craigede at hotmail.com> wrote:
> MIF is the Framemaker text format. RCS or any other revision control system
> can be used to store revision histories of Framemaker documents stored in
> MIF. I wouldn't expect it to be very efficient in terms of space.
>
> Companies I have worked with have routinely controlled FM documents in RCS
> using scripts that utilized FM fmbatch to convert saved books to MIF check
> them in and out of RCS. The time involved to run the scripts tiny, but the
> storage use was large since MIFs are verbose and change many things beyond
> the actual text in the document from save to save.
>
> Craig
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 10:45 AM
> To: Sonnenberg, Aryeh; framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: Version Control Suggestions
>
> Not to my knowledge. To merge in a source-control system, the source files
> must be in a text format, such as DocBook, DITA XML, or MadCap Flare's
> proprietary XHTML.
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Sonnenberg, Aryeh
> <Aryeh.Sonnenberg at emc.com> wrote:
>> So, in the unstructured environment, there is no tool available for this?
>
>