Yes, that would be exactly my point. They break it up into multiple chapters / pages appropriate to the content; they don't string it all together. 8 subtopics at the top level, and diving down, 17 in the Developer's Guide, etc.
Art On 5/17/07, Neil Tubb <neil.tubb at solacesystems.com> wrote: > Thanks for the input Art. My books, though, are not large (only about 50 > pages at this point). And also, I don't think this is a real issue > anymore. For an example of what I'm striving for, check out how Google > handles their API docs: > > http://code.google.com/apis/blogger/developers_guide_protocol.html > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Art Campbell [mailto:art.campbell at gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:05 AM > To: Neil Tubb > Cc: framers at frameusers.com > Subject: Re: Creating a single HTML page from Frame book > > Well, depending on long your books are, this could be a really poor > idea if people have enough time to go down to Starbucks and get coffee > while the "page" loads. > > The whole idea of web publishing is usually to have discrete chunks of > information / pages that are linked, not vice versa, so it sounds as > if someone's not quite clear on the concept. > > That aside, I'm 95% sure that MIF2Go by omsys.com has a one-page > option for output to HTML. You could grab the eval and check... > > Art > > On 5/17/07, Neil Tubb <neil.tubb at solacesystems.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > > > For my company's various SDK programming guides, I've been told to > stop > > producing PDF versions, and switch to a single HTML page version for > > each book. Of course, I would like to continue authoring in Frame, and > > my quick initial tests using the FM save-as-HTML look not too > bad...but > > clearly I'm going to spending a fair amount of time cleaning up the > look > > of the document. The FM-produced CSS is not very pretty. > > > > > > > > I considered using ePublisher, but I believe it always creates a > minimum > > of one HTML file per FM chapter. This would not work. > > > > > > > > Does anyone have any other ideas? Or does anyone have a similar > > experience they can share? > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > Neil > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > > > Neil Tubb > > > > Senior Technical Writer > > > > Solace Systems, Inc. > > > > 535 Legget Drive, 6th Floor > > > > Ottawa, ON K2K 3B8 > > > > > -- > Art Campbell > art.campbell at gmail.com > "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent > and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson > No disclaimers apply. > DoD 358 > -- Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358
