, 22 October 2014 9:40 a.m.
To: Rebecca Officer
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: wrapping DITA steps in tables
Hi Rebecca,
interesting question. Theoretically it should be possible to 'translate’ the
steps element into a FrameMaker table, for presentation, just like we do with
Nice .. very cool. Thanks Wim!
...scott
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> On Oct 21, 2014, at 1:40 PM, Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp wrote:
>
> Hi Rebecca,
>
> interesting question. Theoretically it should be possible to 'translate’ the
> steps element into a Fra
Hi Rebecca,
interesting question. Theoretically it should be possible to 'translate’ the
steps element into a FrameMaker table, for presentation, just like we do with
the properties element.
It would put some heavy constraints on your content however, as each step must
have exactly one cmd and
Hi Rebecca,
As you need to produce PDFs, you do need the result of the transformation in
FM. Changing the EDD is not an options, as that would take you out of the DITA
standard (and changing the DITA EDDs in FM is almost impossible to start with -
I tried and it really is horrible).
Using scri
Hi Rebecca...
I'm not aware of a way to do this via EDD .. I think scripting or a
plugin is your best bet. I do have a plugin called StructureSnippets
that (among other things) will let you wrap a specified
element/attribute in a predefined structure (like a table). I'm not sure
how you'd use