atw: Re: FrameMaker questions

Ed:
> I don't know if you remember me but I was Secretary of the ASTC (Vic.)
> last year.  We met at the meeting you conducted on FrameMaker, way back
> back in February 2002.
>
> I've been told that you are the resident (i.e. Melbourne-based) expert
> on FrameMaker matters, by both Sonja McShane and Marcia Bascombe.  I'm
> wondering if you'd mind if I fired the occasional FM question at you.  I
> promise that it would only be very infrequently!  :)

Of course I remember you; now what was MY name again?  I don't mind the
occasional query but don't always expect an immediate answer, depending on
my workload at the time.

 A MUCH better idea is to subscribe to the framers lists.  First, the
answers to YOUR queries will educate a lot of OTHER people simultaneously.
Second, you will have access to many more experts, including those using
Structured FrameMaker and XML, or doing wonderful things with FrameScript
scripts.  Third, there is often more than one way to skin the FrameMaker so
you may have a choice of methods, not just Hedley's preferred and possibly
inefficient way of working. Fourth, one of the framers lists has an archive
which may already have the answers. Fifth, reading the framers lists every
day helps to while away those longeurs between 08:30 to 17:30 hours and is
a good incidental way of finding out about FrameMaker's many <marketing>
powerful features </marketing>.

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Regards,
Hedley

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