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RE: Baiting for the single source rant - Bill's last words this t ime around
Subject:RE: Baiting for the single source rant - Bill's last words this t ime around From:"Glenn Maxey" <glenn -dot- maxey -at- voyanttech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 7 Sep 2001 09:11:02 -0600
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> From: Bonnie Granat [mailto:bgranat -at- att -dot- net]
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 8:08 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: Baiting for the single source rant - Bill's last
> words this
> t ime around
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> Michele Marques wrote:
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> >
> > With all this information and tight deadlines, I don't want
> to forget to
> > copy and paste a change to one of the appropriate variants
> of the manuals. I
> > update once, and this change is in place in up to 4
> different versions of
> > the manual.
>
> Can you briefly explain how to do this in
> FrameMaker? I've been told it cannot be done
> without having all the other books open and saving
> manually. Thanks.
Aside from conditional text, variables, and including documents in
multiple books, a handy feature that my co-worker has turned me on to is
text insert. It has the advantage (over using the same document in
multiple books) that it takes on the properties for variables and
whatnot from the container document.
Hence, longer passages or even near complete chapters that are shared
can be put in one file and then text-inserted into other files.
Glenn Maxey
Voyant Technologies, Inc.
Tel. +1 303.223.5164
Fax. +1 303.223.5275
glenn -dot- maxey -at- voyanttech -dot- com
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