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[jsr340-experts] Re: EDR change bar confusion

From: Rajiv Mordani <rajiv.mordani_at_oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:08:54 -0800

Mark,
     Will go through and remove the change bars appropriate and send out
another draft.

- Rajiv

On 12/21/12 2:28 AM, Mark Thomas wrote:
> 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
>>>