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