Swinburne University Uses Flare From MadCap Software to Teach Online Help Content Development (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

MadCap Software, the leader in multi-channel content authoring and a showcase company for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft XPS, today announced that Swinburne University has adopted MadCap Flare 3.0 for its post-graduate technical communications program.

Off-Topic: Firefox Mobile coming to a cell phone near you (joy!)

One of the few times I’ve been tempted by an Apple product since the Apple II was the arrival of the iPhone, because it brings an unparalleled web browsing experience to the handheld device. (I can’t be bothered by the mobile web– I want the real web, on the move with me.) The Safari browser for the Mac runs on the iPhone, delivering the experience I’m used to from the desktop, only smaller and smoother. 95% of the time, it’s just perfect.

The good news, then, is that a mobile port of Firefox is in the offing. I can even post to my blog from it, when it gets here. I’m terribly curious to see what it’s like, and what kinds of devices it runs on. If it runs on something available for Verizon, I can even stick to the wireless company I like, while getting the services I actually need.

More at:

http://mashable.com/2007/10/10/firefox-mobile/

Framemaker 8 FDK Developer Kit: Download from Adobe

The Framemaker 8/FDK developer kit is now available for download from the Adobe.com web site.

(Interestingly, it looks like the FDK structure import/export programmer’s guide hasn’t been updated.)

The available downloads include:

System requirements

FDK for Windows:

FDK for Unix:

The What’s New document is definitely worth a read. It looks like the big gotchas are around Unicode handling. FDK functions now support a Unicode mode in which they behave rather differently from the older mode… Dialog boxes are handled in Dialog Encodings that also introduce compatibility issues.

Adobe has tried to support compatibility for FDK clients from Framemaker 7.2, 7.1, 7.0 without recompilation. I’m curious to hear from anyone who’s encountered difficulties.

There are also issues with compiler support for anything older than Visual Studio 2005. My favorite quote, after somecode  changes they recommend to work with older compilers, was:

IMPORTANT: Although these fixes resolve linker issues, the behavior under these fixes is unpredictable, and we strongly recommend using Visual C++ 2005.

“It links without errors” isn’t exactly the most reassuring promise. Looks like it’s time to get a new compiler…

Re: equation number, table number, figure number linked to the same paragraph number - Wanted ideas

As I suggested, read the documentation. It's very easy to understand and
the concept is extremely powerful.
But as it was more than 10 years since he last FrameMaker work, I wanted
to try it again:
Heading1 Autonumber Format=n:<A+>-
Equation Autonumber Format=n:Eq <A>-<n+>< >
Figure Autonumber Format=n:fig <A>-< ><n+>

Re: equation number, table number, figure number linked to the same paragraph number - Wanted ideas

As I suggested, read the documentation. It's very easy to understand and
the concept is extremely powerful.
But as it was more than 10 years since he last FrameMaker work, I wanted
to try it again:
Heading1 Autonumber Format=n:<A+>-
Equation Autonumber Format=n:Eq <A>-<n+>< >
Figure Autonumber Format=n:fig <A>-< ><n+>

Re: equation number, table number, figure number linked to the same paragraph number - Wanted ideas

"andreas" <andreas a@t mrs d.t ch> a écrit dans le message de news:
473f6b3f$0$3816$54022...@news. sunrise.ch...
Excuse-me, for B, I want to have also B
In paragraph B, I want to come back to 1,2, 3 for "Eq" and also for "fig"
and I want to recall the number of the paragraph...
Thanks to read this strange but practical question