Hi John
Nadine has already given you a good description of how to proceed. This is
how you could generate a FrameMaker book from a ditamap with DITA-FMx:
1. Create your DITA topics.
2. Create a bookmap, in which each chapter is a ditamap. The bookmap also
contains bookmeta, which contains
Thank you! This looks like exactly the guidance I need?
On Saturday, December 1, 2012, Writer wrote:
But surely somehow the para tags get mapped to elements for PDF output?
Forget about formatting while you author. Learn to separate creating
content from formatting.
When I publish a
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John, what version of FM are you using?
Nadine
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John,
If you can get the money to do it, hire Suite Solutions
(http://www.suite-sol.com/) to write the EDDs and style sheets (xsl-fo and
xslt) for you. Instead of struggling with it, pulling your hair out, and
getting freustated, let the pros do it. Your manuals and help files will look
What other tools did you consider? If I had carte blanche, I'd
probably use Confluence or MindTouch TCS.
Have you done DITA with FrameMaker before?
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:25 PM, John Sgammato
john.sgamm...@actifio.com wrote:
I just started a new job at a software startup. I have basically a
Thanks Nadine!
Yes, the existing product documentation was authored in oxygen in India. I
don't have good access to those resources, but I have the DITA files. I have to
make them look presentable, and then improve the quality of the writing, fill
in gaps, etc.
So I have no legacy FM content,
I made great progress today. I was able to open the DITA files and get them
pretty consistent with new master pages, etc.
I see two issues right now that I cannot figure out:
* I want to get rid of many, many paragraph formats that I won't need, but I
don't know if it is safe to do that, or if
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I made great progress today. I was able to open the DITA files and get them
At 19:24 -0500 29/11/12, John Sgammato wrote:
* I want to get rid of many, many paragraph formats that I won't need, but I
don't know if it is safe to do that, or if it will break something.
I'm pretty green on structured as well (one project to date, but it was quite a
biggie). While building
I have not done DITA with FM before, but I seem to be learning fast
(despite the seeming utter randomness of related documentation - lots of
reference info, lots of specific procedures, but no single Here's the
procedure to build a user guide in a DITA environment doc).
I got into a project with
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I made great progress today. I
But surely somehow the para tags get mapped to elements for PDF output?
Forget about formatting while you author. Learn to separate creating content
from formatting.
When I publish a procedure to PDF, suppose I want the steps to have 0pt above,
6pt after, etc - the stuff I usually set up in
Sgammato
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I made great progress today. I was able to open the DITA files and
get them
pretty consistent with new
John, what version of FM are you using?
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Congrats on the new job, John. Being the master of your own documentation is
pretty awesome, eh?
I would love to find some EDDs for basic DITA-compliant user manuals, and I'd
love some war stories about getting Structured, tales of heroism and tragedy,
etc. Please feel free to reply to me
T hanks Nadine!
Yes, the existing product documentation was authored in oxygen in India. I
don't have good access to those resources, but I have the DITA files. I have
to make them look presentable, and then improve the quality of the writing,
fill
in gaps, etc.
So I have no legacy FM
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