atw: Re: Groktalks for tech writers
- From: Stuart Burnfield <sburnf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 12:05:52 +0800
Well, that's why I suggested "FrameMaker for Word users". I doubt you could
usefully cover All About FrameMaker or even FrameMaker 101 in ten minutes.
I don't think "familiar concept, different name" needs to be in a groktalk.
"Same name, different concept" is much trickier--things like templates and
frames would be well worth covering because they're more likely to trip up
Word users who are learning Frame.
Unfamiliar concepts are definitely worth covering. They are "unknown
unknowns", as Donald Rumsfield might say. These would be things like
generated lists, reference pages, master pages and conditional text.
You won't master any of these things in a brief talk, but having grokked or
grasped them, you're off to a flying head start.
Cheers
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Stuart Burnfield
Information Developer
Australian Programming Centre
Craig said:
> > FrameMaker ...basic concepts would more than take
> > care of the infamous FrameMaker learning curve
>
> Yes, I think a solid grounding would go a long way,
> but FrameMaker is still a big program, and it's
> unlikely that you'd use all of it (eg TOC setup,
> building-blocks for numbering, dictionary-style
> headers) very often, so I believe it still takes a
> long time to learn. (We tend to forget how long
> familiar programs took us to learn, but I reckon most
> take several months of intensive use, if not more. I'm
> talking about "grokking" (immersive understanding) not
> just basic usage -- the latter would normally take
> only around 30 minutes, say.)
>
> As I said in the "Word to Frame" thread back at the
> start of Feb, much of the problem many people have
> when they start using FrameMaker is the unfamiliar
> terminology and UI -- the _concepts_ are familiar, but
> not how they're done or even what they're called! 10
> minutes from a knowledgeable FrameMaker user would go
> a long way to removing those barriers.
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