RE: Font Selection, Name Changes, and Fainting Goats

Subject: RE: Font Selection, Name Changes, and Fainting Goats
From: Jason Willebeek-LeMair <jlemair -at- cisco -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 12:38:35 -0500


Johanne says,

"Well, here's an irritating (hypothetical) situation that throws that
solution out the window in FrameMaker, anyway: A product, let's call it
CoolThing, is always referred to as "the CoolThing system" in the doc (as
in, "The CoolThing system enables the accomplishment of miracles,"). A name
change occurs. The product is now CoolThingSS, where SS stands for Special
Solution. The writer changes the variable 'product name' to CoolThingSS,
but is now faced with countless instances of "the CoolThingSS system" and
must now search the book for all the instances of CoolThingSS system and
remove system (because it can't be a solution system), as well at "the."
Fun!"

Jason is all like,

That would put a damper on things. Unless, of course, you used "CoolThing
system" in the original text entity (or variable or container object or
whatever) because that was what it was always called.

Or, you declare "the CoolThingSS system" a standard. Sometime, simple
stubbornness is the solution. ;-)

Jason

(By the way, I hit ctrl-s on my previous message during typing--What I meant
to conclude with is that you don't see "fainting goat" in e-mail subject
lines enough.)

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