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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Cross posted to dita-frameusers, so ignore as needed ...<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I had an interesting discussion with the Frame Product Manager a few days ago at<br>the London launch event for TCS3. It seems there is the motivation to develop a<br>business case for 'Frame Light' which could be used by SMEs to create and review<br>content, but little else.<br> <br>I work in an environment where I am the only Frame user (experimenting with 10<br>at the moment) in an organisation with over 100 SMEs producing content in Word.<br>Most do their own thing, or come to me to 'fix' or standardise stuff once it is<br>collected together.<br> <br>So, I would want 'Frame Light' to allow content creation in structured or<br>unstructured format (including DITA one day), but that requires the content<br>provider to use only the pre-determined paragraph formats and a few text styles<br>(emphasis, bold, sub- and superscript); and insert images by reference. I can<br>get around a need to define conditional text by using different paragraph format<br>names. All this in templates that can only be developed or altered by full<br>license holders.<br> <br>To support the development of a business case can you post what (other)<br>functionality you would want Frame Light to have, how many licenses you would<br>(ideally) want in your organisation, how many full Frame licenses you currently<br>have (for comparison purposes), how you would want FL delivered (local install,<br>web-based, floating licenses), and what you would want/need to pay for it to get<br>it accepted as an alternative to Whatever word processing your SMEs currently<br>use?<br> <br>Creating more disciplined (structured), reusable, content which can be output<br>with a similar look and feel, and doesn't reinvent a wheel each time an SME puts<br>fingers to keyboard, is a concept which has almost reached its time in my<br>organisation. Others may be close, or even ahead, so there must be demand for<br>this. Please let me know.<br> <br>Best regards,<br>Ant <o:p></o:p></p></div><BR>
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