RE: Fixing condition text mess--RESOLUTION

[Ed Treijs <etreijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all;

A lot of interesting suggestions from the list!

We discovered one thing:  got in touch with a writer who had worked on the
docs before, who told us that a good effort had already been made to clean
up and remove conditionally-tagged text (but, alas, not the multitude of
tags/formats themselves).  So it's unlikely that there is any
conditionally-tagged text that we would miss.

The person working on the docs did a manual clickfest to remove conditional
text from one doc, and is satisfied with the results.  Tackling one doc a
day is reasonable with this approach.  Basically, we are trading away any
elegance (and the thought/effort needed to implement it) for a
straightforward approach of "clamp it with Vise-Grips and hit vigorously
with hammer".

FrameScript is pretty cheap, but I think all our software acquisition funds
are going to our upgrade from Frame 5.5.6/Acrobat 4.0.5 to Frame 7.0/Acrobat
6.0.  We'd have to justify FrameScript based on a lot of recurrent
batch-oriented tasks that could be automated; I'm not sure we have any of
these.

Thomas Michanek's scripts certainly warrant further investigation.  I think
we have forgotten what we could do with Frame on UNIX.  The chances of the
Frame 5.5 UNIX licence being upgraded to 7.0 are very slim, and we "missing
font" messages are inevitable because the fonts we use in our docs are
installed on our PCs.  Oh yeah, and the forgotten takes a while to remember.

Ed (now, where's my hammer?) Treijs



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