FM has the ability to structure unstructured documents. See tha appendix in the fm 9 manual.
Assuming that the formatting in the fm 9 documents followed a consistent style the transformation won't be horrible. The real work comes in building the EDD. On Apr 7, 2011, at 10:56, Joseph Lorenzini <panopticon23 at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a colleague who may want to make the jump into DITA. I am old school > with unstructured FrameMaker but I know there's plenty out there but I'd like > to get recommendations from you all. I am looking for FrameMaker plugins for > 1) converting unstructured framemaker 9 files into DITA and 2) that help > with DITA authoring in general, though I believe FrameMaker's out of the box > capabilities are pretty decent. Also, are there some good DITA tutorials out > there? Cost is an issue for my colleague so closer to free would be > preferable :). > > Sincerely, > Joseph Lorenzini > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as quills at airmail.net. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/quills%40airmail.net > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
