Books as Start menus [was 'RE: Can backup.fm files be stored in a separate folder?']

["Hedley Finger (EPA)" <Hedley.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's a tip.  Create a book file and store it in your
Startup/Start/.profile/.cshrc or whatever so it opens on start-up.

Add BOOKS for the projects you are currently working on to it.  (Not many
people realize that a book file is just a list of files, so you can add
other books to them.)  Then, to start working on any particular project,
double-click to open its book, then double-click the files you want to work
on.

--
Regards,
Hedley Finger   Technical Writer

Ericsson Australia Pty Ltd
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	John Posada [SMTP:jposada01@yahoo.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, August 18, 1999 2:51 AM
> To:	Peter Gold; Savidge, Jim
> Cc:	'Framers@FrameUsers.com'
> Subject:	Re: Can backup.fm files be stored in a separate folder?
> 
> In my last project, I had 5 different books for the
> same project, depending on what activity I was working
> on that day. All the books shared some files that were
> in other books, but none of the books (except the
> Master.bk) were the same and some of the files in the
> books were in different directories, both local and
> network.
> 
> --- Peter Gold <peter@highsoft.com> wrote:
> > Some of FrameMaker's tools have uses that aren't
> > always obvious until you
> > have a problem to solve. For this situation, while
> > you can't change where
> > FM puts its *.backup.fm files, you can use the book
> > feature to manage the
> > files you want to work with often.
> > 
> > * Create a book file based on one of your working
> > files, Save As whatever
> > name you like.
> > * Add all the files you want to use often to this
> > book window. These files
> > don't have to belong to any common project. They
> > don't have to reside in
> > the same folder or disk drive.
> > * Open the book window and choose your working
> > file(s) from it.
> > 
> > To speed things even more, from an active book
> > window, hold down Shift
> > before opening the File menu; you'll see commands to
> > Open, Close, Save All
> > Files In Book.
> > 
> > If you are a typical technical writer, you have many
> > disparate files to
> > tweak, in no particular order other than what comes
> > in by email, sticky
> > note, water-cooler chat fragment, etc. Jumping from
> > one file to another, as
> > in "where is that section where I need to put in
> > this tweak?" can be messy.
> > But, with all these files in a book window, you can
> > create a Table of
> > Contents quickly, and with hyperlinks, you can jump
> > to any topic in any
> > file with a couple of clicks, then tweak away and
> > move on.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Peter
> 
> ===
> John Posada, Merck Research Laboratories
> Sr Technical Writer, WinHelp and html
> (work) john_posada@merck.com
> (pers) jposada01@yahoo.com
> 732-594-0873
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