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[jsr340-experts] Re: EDR change bar confusion

From: Mark Thomas <markt_at_apache.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:28:02 +0000

On 21/12/2012 00:48, Rajiv Mordani wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> The changebars are automatically generated by Framemaker. Yes there
> were
> some places where the formatting was inconsistent and hence was fixed. That
> lead to the change bars. Unfortunately we cannot manually remove only
> certain
> change bars.

The documentation for Framemaker 8 [1], 9 [2], 10 [3] and 11 [4]
describes the process for removing individual change bars. Is there some
reason that won't work in this case?

Mark


[1]
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/8.0/help.html?content=Chap14-Revision-Mgmt_05.html

[2]
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/9.0/Using/WSF4EA09CA-570D-4bd6-A672-E0EAE1828598.html#WS68588045-75E6-49fe-A352-704F16B8E4C7

[3]
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/10.0/Using/WSF4EA09CA-570D-4bd6-A672-E0EAE1828598.html#WS68588045-75E6-49fe-A352-704F16B8E4C7

[4]
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/WSF4EA09CA-570D-4bd6-A672-E0EAE1828598.html#WS68588045-75E6-49fe-A352-704F16B8E4C7


> Either we remove all the change bars at least for the
> chapter or
> we just live with the change bars for now. The other option is to remove
> the
> change bars altogether between drafts and that way you will get diffs
> only from the
> last draft. Let me know if that's an option - we can work on doing that
> going
> forward.
>
> - Rajiv
>
> On 12/20/12 3:21 PM, Mark Thomas wrote:
>> On 09/10/2012 12:16, Mark Thomas wrote:
>>> I have been looking through the EDR from June at the individual changes
>>> and there are a lot of change bars that don't seem to be related to any
>>> actual changes - the text is identical with the 3.0 maintenance release.
>>>
>>> On closer inspection, I think the change bars appear any where Courier
>>> (or something very close to that) font is used as if the font for code
>>> has been changed triggering a whole bunch of change bars. Could this be
>>> looked at for the next draft as it is very hard work identifying real
>>> changes in the current EDR?
>> Ping.
>>
>> This is still an issue in the PDR draft. It needs to be addressed to
>> prevent causing confusion about what has actually changed in 3.1
>>
>> Mark
>>
>