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Subject:Re: Documentation Group needs advice! From:Peter Gold <pgold -at- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 3 Jan 1997 12:20:24 -0800
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Paul Nagai wrote:
>
> Also, source material SMEs submit may frequently be in Word, ASCII, or some
> other format. Frame (Windows Frame) does not easily import ASCII and apply
> formatting. Neither does it import Word documents very well unless a
> special Word template has been created and distributed to SMEs who then USE
> it. A skilled Word Basic macro writer can often apply huge amounts of
> formatting without much hands on work ... can't do that in WinFrame without
> "real" programming (C++ and the FDK).
>
Just a short note: Frame's simple markup MML (Maker Markup Language) can
be used in ASCII files or WPs that export ascii. You make tags that Frame
can recognize as format names when you import the ascii. See
Help>Contents>Online Manuals>MML Reference for fulll info on MML.
Peter Gold
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