RE: Top 10 mistakes unstructured FrameMaker Users make incontentbeforetranslation

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

Outlook stole my line breaks. Corrected below.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Goldstein
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 3:22 PM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Top 10 mistakes unstructured FrameMaker Users 
> make incontentbeforetranslation
> 
> ...avoid the following in Word documents, as in the 
> original article:
> 
> 1. Unanchored graphics
> 
> 2. Forced upper-case character styles
> 
> 3. Single-line page headers pulled from paragraph headings
> 
> 4. Side-head layouts
> 
> 5. Single tables that fill a whole page
> 
> 6. Forced page breaks
> 
> To these I would add:
> 
> 7. Manual character and paragraph formatting
> 
> 8. Style-based list numbering
> 
> 9. Floating tables
> 
> 10. Tracked changes
> 
> 11. Embedded objects
> 
> 12. Inconsistent index marks
> 
> 13. Inconsistent heading styles (think about the TOC!)
> 


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