Re: On the topic of migrating Word dox to Frame

["Rick Quatro" <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bart,

You should consider a suite of FrameScript scripts that would automate the
down and dirty work. If you spend a lot of time cleaning up Word documents,
they would likely pay for themselves very quickly.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
rick@frameexpert.com
http://www.frameexpert.com

<snip>
> I know I cannot rid the word dox of many of its default styles, and it's
no
> big deal to eliminate them in Frame.
>
> But the need to virtually manually reformat the entire doc remains, and
> that's what I'm striving to overcome. I don't mean recheck the doc to
tweak
> style application and make editing and doc-shaping decisions, I mean the
> down and dirty search and destroy which burns so much time; these dox are
> laced with phrases that require character formatting in addition to the
> paratag flows of moderate complexity.
>
> Bottom line: is there one or more comprehensive resource (article,
archive,
> book, seminar) that dissects the issue of taking Word source material and
> repurposing it for Frame?
>
> Btw, these are not terribly intensive dox (tables and pix are rare;
they're
> rarely longer than 30 pps; typically programmer guide content from the
> SMEs).
>
> __________
> Bart Windrum
> GUI Fit&Finish and Documentation
> Diogenes Inc.
> 410 17th St. #1260
> Denver CO 80202
>
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