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Subject:Re: How do we learn Frame? From:"Matthew B. Hicks" <matt -at- UNIDATA -dot- UCAR -dot- EDU> Date:Tue, 1 Aug 1995 10:27:00 -0600
On Tue, 1 Aug 1995, Richard Dimock wrote:
> If you do rent an instructor, be sure to require a special
> alteration to the canned course to emphasize
> specific topicsfor your needs, such as:
> Indexing
One of the tougher aspects of the package to get a handle on, IMHO. I
became quite proficient with this feature through many hours of trial and
error -- it's very powerful, but if you find adding HTML tags to a
document tedious, boy oh boy are you going to hate this! In my case, the
difficulty of creating an index was compounded by the fact that it wasn't
just my first time making one with Frame, it was the first index I ever
created. I actually came to sort of enjoy tagging up the index, but I
have the heart of a programmer.
> Paragraph design (component styles)
> Book design
> Table of contents
Another powerful but initially confusing feature. Takes some tweaking to
get the output you expect.
Do you mean "conditional documents/conditional text"? This is where one
document contains the text for multiple versions. The conditional text
can be toggled on and off depending on which version of the doc you need
to produce. We have used this successfully for a package we support which
runs under both UNIX and OS/2.
> Revision Bars
Frame calls these "change bars". (A minor, unimportant nitpick.)
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