Hello,
I am an experienced writer who is new to Structured. I have created plenty of Unstructured templates and have lots of SGML authoring experience. I have a new job in a small company where I am the only writer, my new boss is very insistent about my getting started with Frame 9 to start updating their manuals. They were using an expensive plug-in which introduced lots of system errors so they stopped using it. So the first thing I need to do is create a template. Also, I need to offer an XML output eventually but not right now.
My question is, would it be easier to do the next revision in Unstructured, which I am familiar with and could create right now, then convert the template to Structured at a later date? Or should I bite the bullet and skip the Unstructured and go straight to Structured? I have seen articles that say Unstructured to Structured conversion is easier than Structured from scratch - that much of the work I did for Unstructured would not be lost. By the way I won't be getting any Structured training, like I said it's a small company. So I'm on my own here, please help!