debra@salt.acc.com (Debra Tivetsky) (07/19/90)
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 */