[Framers] ExtendScript for save as text, for Git usage ?

[Robert Lauriston]

There is or at least used to be a third-party product that did that
with .fm files. I saw it at a trade show years ago.

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 5:17 PM, Monique Semp <monique.semp at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Do you really find it useful to diff MIF files very often?
>
>
> Well, I haven't done it yet because it'd involve so much extra manual work.
> But what I'd like to be able to do is simply scroll through the commit list
> in my Git client (SourceTree on Windows) and have the diffs show
> automatically, just as they do for source code. And with MIF files, that'd
> be possible.
>
> I have noticed, though, that the MIF files are *much* larger than the
> corresponding FM files (a 197 KB FM file became a 952 KB MIF file!), so now
> that I see this, I might rethink it.
>
> But as one more tool to make it easier to see what's been done to a
> particular file, in a way that's not even possible in the FM/FrameMaker
> view, I'd really like to try it.
>
> -Monique
>