Montreal Techwriter Forum Posting Rules ======================================= Greetings! This is your monthly reminder of the posting rules on this list. If...
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Jul 1, 2004 8:45 am
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I'd also suggest Kurt Ament's book, Building modular documentation. Although I do not agree 100% with everything in the book, I believe it is very well done...
The Montreal Technical Writing community suffered a loss this week. Gayle Lange, a local technical writer, passed away after slipping into a diabetic coma and...
What about just Welcome or Nothing or just the name of the Interface without any welcome. Omitting the welcome is not as polite, but it's quicker! If my...
Hi: If the product runs a diagnostic upon your system or network, reporting the roll over of the log or diagnostic as "X is protecting your network." Either...
Andy G
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Jul 13, 2004 10:25 pm
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--> -----Original Message----- --> From: michthibodeau [mailto:michthibodeau@...] --> --> Just wondering if someone can offer an alternative to -->...
Upon reflection, (I love my Marvin the Martian mirror), and a little while after posting the question, I had decided to just use "Welcome." Thanks for the...
Hi All, I need information about available courses in technical writing/writing effectively in American English. Could anyone help? Thanks in advance!! Aditi...
I'd like a sampling of opinion about the use of heading levels. Question: Is is acceptable to skip heading levels in a document, be it FrameMaker, Word, or...
Jim Royal wondered: <<I'd like a sampling of opinion about the use of heading levels. Question: Is is acceptable to skip heading levels in a document, be it...
Geoff Hart
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Jul 19, 2004 6:18 pm
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This seems wrong to me... I would translate Chapter Head - - Subhead - - Subhead - Section Head - - Subhead To Level1 Level2 Level2 Level2 Level3 I thing the...
I've wanted to skip levels from time to time, but always ended up adhering to the incremental structure for fear of confusing the readers. I just use an...
Susan Guttman
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Jul 19, 2004 7:17 pm
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... Actually, I'm working in HTML without chapters or pages. The chapter nomenclature was intended to decontextualize the example, as getting in H1 H2 H3 tends...
OK.... I see. Still, no matter what name you use, I find that jumping over a heading level is confusing. ... From: Jim Royal [mailto:jimroyal@...] Sent:...
On Jul 19, 2004, at 14:18, Geoff Hart wrote: [a whole lot of stuff] ... Actually, this issue is structure, not appearance versus content. The ... The problem...
Hi Jim, Different heading levels should serve to illustrate relationships between given chunks of content, and the structure should be preserved. It would be a...
I would agree that you could have text betweend heading levels: Chapter (level 0) text Heading (level 1) text Heading (level 1) text Heading (level 2) But ...
Jim Royal observed: << Geoff Hart wrote: [a whole lot of stuff]>> It's been said of me many times, with considerable justice! <g> <<Actually, this issue is...
Geoff Hart
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Jul 19, 2004 10:00 pm
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Dear friends and colleagues, My family and I have received much support since my wife Gayle passed away unexpectedly two weeks ago, including visits, cards,...
Howard Kiewe
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Jul 20, 2004 3:40 am
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Can anybody help me with a problem I'm having in WebWorks? After compiling my FrameMaker document to Microsoft HTML Help, I noticed that my hyperlinks weren't...
Hi Vivian, To get rid of the underlines, you have to change the GoTolinkOpen marker to: $IF_LINKRESOLVED( <a $BP70Marker_LinkAttrs; style="text-decoration:...
Hi Frances, That did take away the underlining, but the character style (defined in the <span> tag) is still not being applied. Thanks anyway, Vivian ... ...
Hi Vivian, This is acceptable behaviour according to the specs because the anchor tag's pseudo-classes may override other formatting. Webworks should not wrap...
I see. I was actually not aware, until Frances told me, that you could even put style info in the <a href> tag. So this is a WebWorks problem then. I was not...
Hi Vivian, You can look at it as a problem - or as a feature :-) Actually, it really is a feature. The ability to modify styles in WebWorks is how you can...
I would definitely call this a problem rather than a feature because the character style that I defined in FrameMaker is not being reflected in the generated...
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