RE: [RPRWG] Missing changebars in Clause 10

["Tom Alexander" <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: [RPRWG] Missing changebars in Clause 10

Robert,

 

The issue here is that it's a balancing act between errors that FrameMaker

makes in adding in changebars, versus errors that editors may make in

causing changebars to occur. I run the automated compare to catch ALL

changes from a previous draft, regardless of whether the editors actually

made changes, backed out of edits, pasted original text on top of new

text, etc. Unfortunately it looks as if FrameMaker is as error-prone as

an average human being ...

 

I'll investigate this curious behavior of Frame with regard to tables and

figures and see if I can find a solution. Note that in the past I have seen

FrameMaker duplicate changed tables and figures, causing immense

confusion during commenting, but this is the first time I've seen it omit

changebars.

 

- Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Castellano, Robert [mailto:RCastellano@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 1:32 PM
To: 'tom@xxxxxxxxxxxx'; 'RPR Reflector'
Subject: RE: [RPRWG] Missing changebars in Clause 10

Hi Tom,

My recommendation is to have the editor's make their changes with
automatic change bars on, rather than rely on the automated compare
feature in Framemaker.

I am finding other areas where Framemaker did properly include change
bars.  The errors tend to be in the area of  tables and figures (the place where
all our normative specifications reside).

Working group members should not have to do manual document compares
for their comments.  We may need to come up with a process for
accepting recirc. comments since we cannot rely on the current
draft to properly indicate the changes.

        robert

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Alexander [mailto:tom@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:11 PM
> To: 'RPR Reflector'
> Subject: [RPRWG] Missing changebars in Clause 10
>
>
>
> Colleagues,
>
> It has been brought to my attention that there were
> some errors in generating changebars for Clause 10
> tables and figures. This was probably caused by the
> large number of changes in what is a fairly large
> clause, resulting in FrameMaker missing a number of
> items during the document compare.
>
> The following tables and figures are not marked by
> changebars, but ARE open for comment:
>
> Figure 10.1 (modified)
> Figure 10.7 (new)
> Figure 10.8 (new)
> Figure 10.14 (new)
> Figure 10.15 (indexing made positive per ringlet)
> Figure 10.16 (indexing made positive per ringlet)
> Figure 10.17 (same as Figure 10.16)
> Figure 10.22 (some changes due to new and removed ATTs)
> Figure 10.26 (new)
> Figure 10.28 (new)
> Figure 10.29 (new)
>
> Table 10.1 (editorial mods)
> Table 10.3 (editorial mods)
> Table 10.5 (WTR added)
> Table 10.7 (a few changes)
> Table 10.8 (many changes)
> Table 10.9 (new, added as part of mods to 10.8)
> Table 10.10 (some columns removed)
> Table 10.11 (new)
> Table 10.12 (transposed topo DB)
> Table 10.13 (new)
> Table 10.14 (new)
> Table 10.15 (many changes)
> Table 10.16 (some changes)
> Table 10.17 (new)
> Table 10.18 (some changes due to new and removed ATTs)
> Table 10.19 (some changes due to new ATTs)
> Table 10.20 (editorial mods)
> Table 10.23 (new)
>
> Note that Figure 10.25 did not change, but is marked
> as changed in the draft (another FrameMaker bug).
>
> My apologies for the errors in the changebars. I'm
> reasonably confident that this is an unlikely to
> recur as the next draft should not have anywhere near
> the volume of changes that are present in this one.
>
> Best regards,
>
> - Tom Alexander
> Chief Editor, P802.17
>