Re: Single Sourcing

["Horn, Matthew" <Matthew -dot- Horn -at- TFN -dot- COM>]

Forgive me for being a little naive, but can't you single-source with
Framemaker and conditional text?

Currently, we only produce paper and PDF documentation. Within 6 months we
plan to start producing context-sensitive online help and my intention was
to use the existing doc-set, with modification, and output it with WebWorks
Publisher. Is this, then, not realistic?

-----Original Message-----
From: CASSIN Gilles [mailto:GCassin -at- MEGA -dot- COM]
Sent: Friday, April 16, 1999 1:17 PM
To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
Subject: Re: Single Sourcing


Rebecca Merck wrote:
I don't find single-sources to be... well, possible.

I did this for a few years, being the only TW, and having in charge the
implementation of Help in two languages.
This was done with Word, (no HAT at that time), using tricks with styles
and colors (e.g: hyperliks were in blue), then processing it with a
macro, which took in charge the filtering of styles, the replacement of
tags in hidden text, the replacement of images by calls to shg's ant the
insertion of the image in the proper shg file ...
It was rather difficult, and I soon as the guide happenned to be
modified by people who didn't take care of the future help, it was a
wreck (and a nightmare to rebuild a proper help system). But for some
parts of the doc, it's still in use (glossaries, etc.) I wouldn't dare
to show the macro, it's a 15 page monster built to pass around word 2
then 6 then 97 bugs, and there still are WordBasic.WW2_ commands in it.
Yet it still works (do you know a smiley for 'cross fingers'?)
"On thursday, sir? The time is very short" Shakespeare, Romeo and
Juliet, IV.1
Gilles CASSIN
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