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Converting to Structured FrameMaker and Developing EDD

Notes:
Attendence in our Intro to FrameMaker, Advanced FrameMaker, and Structured Editing classes, or equalivant knowledge, is required before attending this Structured FrameMaker class. Students in open-enrollment classes wishing to by-pass our Intro and Advanced Frame classes, and go directly into Structured Frame may be required to sign a waiver.

Creating an EDD

  • Importing an DTD or Schema
  • Extracting EDD from existing document
  • Creating EDD from scratch
    • Creating Element tags
    • Element types
    • General Rules
    • Child Containers
      • Using Auto Insertion
    • Setting up Attributes
    • Initial Formats
  • Creating EDD Elements for:
    • Text
    • Heading
    • Bullet Lists
    • Numbered Lists
    • Tables
    • Figures
    • Character Elements
    • Special Elements
      • X-Refs
      • Footnotes
      • Markers
      • Variables
  • Applying formatting via EDD
    • Defining individual formats
    • Applying Paragraph and Character tags
    • Contextual Rules
    • Level Rules
    • First/Last Paragraph Rules
    • Controlling formatting with Attributes
  • Book Elements
    • Chapters
    • Front Matter

Creating a Conversion Table

Covers:

  • Importing Word documents (if necessary) and making use of Word style formatting
  • Prepping/cleaning up Unstructured Frame documents for conversion
  • Creating a Conversion Table
  • Editing Conversion Table for multi-level structured conversion
  • Applying Conversion Table to unstructured document