I have to say I'm surprised, too. This is Conversion to Structured
FrameMaker 101.
-j
On 2014-05-23 13:18, Rick Quatro wrote:
You guys like to do things the hard way! Conversion Tables are so easy
to set and simple to use, especially for a simple structure like you
have. I am sorry, but Smart Paste is not the best way to do this.
Theresa, I offered to help you, but haven't heard from you. Oh well,
have fun with Smart Paste.
Rick
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
585-366-4017
[email protected]
*From:*[email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Chris
Despopoulos
*Sent:* Friday, May 23, 2014 4:51 AM
*To:* Theresa de Valence; [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: Is there a fast way to wrap unstructured text into [Para]
tags?
Open the HTML in a browser. The idea of Smart Paste is that it knows
how to take different formats of data on the clipboard and convert it to
the given Maker Structure App on the fly. Under the covers it uses an
XSLT -- But It think the DITA Topic struct app comes with Smart Paste
already set up. DocBook may also be set up.
Anyway, if you opened the chapter in Maker, then it should be a ton of
body paragraphs, with maybe a title, right? In that case, saving as
HTML will create a ton of <p> elems. Copy those from the browser, and
Smart Paste will turn them into a bunch of DITA <p> elems. I guess this
is kind of round-about. But it looks like it would be very easy, and
let the computer do most of the work.
* Open your chapter in Maker
* Save as HTML
* Open HTML in browser
* Open a new DITA topic in Maker
* Select the chapter and copy from the browser
* Put the insertion point in the DITA topic/body and choose Smart Paste
Now you have the chapter in Maker, with structure.
Smart Paste will go further than that... It can do lists and tables,
for example. And nesting (I believe). It's just my latest favorite
feature, so I figure you should use it for everything, including
databases and cleaning your closet. :)
cud
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*From:*Theresa de Valence <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
*To:* Chris Despopoulos <[email protected]
On 5/22/2014 12:10 PM, Chris Despopoulos wrote:
I'd say what you're doing wrongly is saving as XML first. Save your
unstructured doc as HTML, then copy/smart-paste into the body tag of a
new DITA topic.
I saved the file as .htm and the name of the file in Frame was still
.fm, but I can see that the .htm exists. What do I open the .htm with?
If I choose Frame, a dialogue box pops up wanting to know what kind of
document it is, e.g. RTF Japanese, SGML, Text, XML
Thanks.
--
Johan Anglemark
Tel: 0708-65 10 88
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