Xref: utzoo comp.text.desktop:1277 alt.sys.sun:1102 comp.text:7036 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!rutgers!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!emory!mephisto!mcnc!rti!dg-rtp!matrx!drd!d.cs.okstate.edu!uokmax!apple!salt.acc.com!debra Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop,alt.sys.sun,comp.text,mail.framers Subject: Re: FrameMaker Message-ID: <1990Jul21.021056.27662@Matrix.COM> Date: 19 Jul 90 05:27:02 GMT References: <392@echbull.bull.fr> <12980002@hpspdra.HP.COM> Sender: mcnc!tusun2.mcs.utulsa.edu!framers-request Reply-To: mcnc!drd!salt.acc.com!debra (Debra Tivetsky) Followup-To: alt.sys.sun Organization: Advanced Computer Communications, Santa Barbara, California Lines: 47 Approved: Mail_Input@Matrix.COM Return-Path: X-Received: by DRD.Com (4.0/DRD-4.1) Precedence: bulk In article <12980002@hpspdra.HP.COM> on comp.text.desktop howeird@hpspdra.HP.COM (Howard Stateman) writes: >>I'm a new FrameMaker user. The product is easy to use, but for some specific >>things (like importing troff) it's not trivial. >>My question is : is there a group (or mailing list) of Frame users ? >Me too! I'm installing FrameMaker on a SparcStation cluster, and we need to migrate a stack of existing documentation part of which is done in Microsoft Word and part of which is done in pic/tbl/troff/postscript using a homegrown macro package (extensions to -me). We are having problems getting the Frame import filters to work, and Frame's support group is *very* hard to get in touch with (like several days to call back :-( :-(). So far, the only other person I have talked to about troff import filters, had tried but given up. (1) Has anyone successfully used filters to migrate from a troff environment to a Framemaker environment? I'd be interested to hear what works and what doesn't work. (2) Would you pre-process the macros to "raw" troff, or is the filter supposed to "know" -me macros and translate them to equivalent structures ? If the translation is done AFTER the macro pass, how editable is the resulting FrameMaker document ? (3) Also, what filter packages are available and what are their merits and their problems ? (4) Are there any conversion utilities available from 3rd parties or from net.people ? (5) Same questions about Microsoft imports ? I have crossposted to both comp.text groups and also to alt.sys.sun with followups to alt.sys.sun; the choice of the latter for followups, is because as a system manager, I hardly ever get time to get down to comp.text. If you email me responses, I'll summarize to comp.sys.sun and comp.text.desktop when I've learned something. -- / Debra Tivetsky 805-963-9431 debra@ACC.COM Advanced Computer Communications, 720 Santa Barbara St, SB, CA 93101 /* Opinions ? My employer has no opinions that I'm responsible for */