HTML Mapping Table

Fri Apr 11 13:48:56 PDT 2014

It also saves me the time and space of describing them in my template documentation (where all the different FM objects used, including reference pages are described).

But you're right, it probably is not something you should do retroactively if your template documentation is meager. You might break something. (In this case, if you know you aren't producing HTML that is very unlikely.)

Craig

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To: craigede at hotmail.com; jeff.coatsworth at jonasclub.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: HTML Mapping Table
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:32:40 -0400

Yeah, and what a huge space savings it is. About 22 KB according to some tests I ran a while back to see if it was worth the bother. If you delete it from 50 files, you'll save a whole megabyte. Delete it from 50,000 files and you'll save a whole gigabyte, or about 0.2% of a typical internal hard drive.

The way I see it, the HTML mapping reference page causes no harm, causes only a very minor inconvenience with its presence (how many times do you actually go into the references pages for a given file, anyway?), and takes up an insignificant amount of additional disk space, even if I'm compulsive and save 20 intermediate versions of a document. It's simply not worth my time to pay any attention to it. 

In my experience, people who get obsessive about removing *all* unused formats and features from FrameMaker documents spend a lot of time for no day-to-day performance or stability improvement, and often inadvertently break something in the bargain. If a legacy document works properly, don't go looking for trouble in the name of reducing file size, because gigabytes are very cheap these days--on the order of $0.10 per gigabyte. And for most of us, $0.10 only pays for about 10 *seconds* of our time. 

-Fred Ridder

From: craigede at hotmail.com
To: jeff.coatsworth at jonasclub.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: HTML Mapping Table
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 13:34:14 -0500

You can delete them. There are multiple HTML pages and you have to delete them one by one. They will reappear if you do a saveAs HTML. I routinely delete them in templates that don't use them as a space saving measure.

This is the behavior in FM11 and before. I expect it is the same in FM12.

Craig

From: Jeff.Coatsworth at jonasclub.com
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: HTML Mapping Table
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 12:24:16 +0000

I’m pretty sure it just in there in the off-chance that you create HTML straight out of FM (which you wouldn’t because it’s supposedly pretty horrible – thus MIF2Go). I think it’s completely harmless to leave
 in there.

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On Behalf Of Pam Harper

Sent: April-08-14 5:12 PM

To: framers at lists.frameusers.com

Subject: HTML Mapping Table

I have an HTML mapping table showing up my reference pages. I’m fairly certain I don’t need it—unless someone can explain why I may need it? I don’t create any help from Frame, but I may just be showing my ignorance,
 hence my first question. This mapping table came from an old Frame 7 template (which we were creating help files), which unfortunately carries over even though I’ve updated the templates.

Next, I tried to delete the table from the reference pages, and when I delete the page, it reproduces itself about 8 times, and I have to manually delete all the “new” ones that popped up. Any suggestions on what is going
 on and how to delete once?

I use Frame 12 on a 64-bit Windows 7 system.

Pam

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