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Structured FrameMaker 7.2
(Three-day workshop)
Date(s):
Jul 23-25
Instructor(s): Karl Hill
Description
This intensive hands-on Adobe FrameMaker structured authoring course is designed to get you up to speed with professional XML structured document creation and repurposing.
Intended Audience:
This course is a must-have for those who must create, edit, re-use and publish information stored as XML; and those who are producing manuals, user guides, maintenance manuals, and reference documentation in a variety of media. You should be familiar with the Windows operating system and have experience with unstructured Adobe FrameMaker.
Topics Include:
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- Lesson 1: Working with Structured Documents
- About Structured Authoring
- Structured features
- Setting up for Structured Documents
- Setting up the application and workspace
- Working with the Structured window
- Selecting elements
- Working with the Element Catalog
- Structured FrameMaker terms
- Lesson 2: Editing Structure
- Manipulating elements
- Inserting elements and adding text
- Adding a list element
- Importing a Structured Flow
- Importing Structured text
- Moving elements
- Wrapping and unwrapping elements
- Merging, splitting and changing elements
- Lesson 3: Attributes
- Working with attributes
- Changing attribute display
- Choosing attribute values
- Changing a string value
- Changing a choice attribute
- Inserting new elements and attributes
- Prompting for attribute values
- Recognizing and correcting attributes with errors
- Lesson 4: Validation
- Validating a document's structure
- Correcting attribute errors
- Importing a structured document
- Fixing validation errors
- Correcting by nudging and unwrapping
- Special cases for elements and attributes
- Lesson 5: Advanced Structure
- Element keyboard shortcuts
- Inserting elements
- Inserting elements using shortcuts
- Unstructured document conversion
- Importing element definitions into an unstructured document
- Applying a conversion table
- Converting from Structured FrameMaker to XML or SGML
- Converting a Structured FrameMaker document to XML
- Lesson 6: Structured Templates
- Creating structured documents
- Creating a new structured document with importing
- Creating a new structured document with Save As
- Creating a new structured document with a format template and EDD
- Extracting an EDD from a Structured FrameMaker document
- Lesson 7: Structured Books
- Marking text for an index
- Inserting index elements
- Modifying existing index elements
- Working with tables of contents and indexes in a structured book
- Adding a table of contents and index
- Formatting a table of contents and index using a template
- Finalizing the book structure
- Lesson 8: XML Import, Export, and more
- Application setup for Structured Authoring
- Creating read/write rules
- Enabling namespaces
- Document schemas
- Reading XML documents
- Reading XML fragments
- Structured Authoring
- Writing an XML instance
- XSL stylesheets and CSS stylesheets
- Working with an XML Schema
- Lesson 9: Using DITA
- Creating a DITA map
- Creating and working with DITA topics
- Creating and working with DITA tasks
- Creating and working with DITA references
- Generating FrameMaker documents from DITA maps
- Building FrameMaker books from DITA maps
- Publishing DITA documents
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