Re: greenfield and new structure

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

greenfield and new structure

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 , which contains information

Re: greenfield and new structure

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

Re: greenfield and new structure

@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: greenfield and new structure John, what version of FM are you using? Nadine ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send

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. -Gillian From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of John Sgammato Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 6:26 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: greenfield and new structure I just started a new job at a software startup. I have

Re: greenfield and new structure

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

Re: greenfield and new structure

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,

Re: greenfield and new structure

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

RE: greenfield and new structure

...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of John Sgammato Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 7:25 PM To: Writer Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: greenfield and new structure I made great progress today. I was able to open the DITA files and get them

RE: greenfield and new structure

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

Re: greenfield and new structure

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

Re: greenfield and new structure

Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of John Sgammato Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 7:25 PM To: Writer Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: greenfield and new structure I made great progress today. I

Re: greenfield and new structure

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

Re: greenfield and new structure

Sgammato Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 7:25 PM To: Writer Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: greenfield and new structure I made great progress today. I was able to open the DITA files and get them pretty consistent with new

Re: greenfield and new structure

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greenfield and new structure

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

greenfield and new structure

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

greenfield and new structure

> -Original Message- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of John Sgammato > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 7:25 PM > To: Writer > Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Re: greenfield and

greenfield and new structure

>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

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es at lists.frameusers.com> > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > <mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com>] On Behalf Of John > Sgammato > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 7:25 PM > To: Writer > Cc: framers at lists.frameuser

greenfield and new structure

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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

greenfield and new structure

Fm11/TCS4 with DITA-FMx Sent from my Kindle Fire _ From: Writer <generic...@yahoo.ca> Sent: Sat Dec 01 22:53:53 EST 2012 To: John Sgammato Cc: Rick Quatro , "framers at lists.frameusers.com" Subject: Re: greenfield and new struct

greenfield and new structure

...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of John Sgammato Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 7:25 PM To: Writer Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: greenfield and new structure I made great progress today. I was able to open the DITA files and get

Re: greenfield and new structure

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

Re: greenfield and new structure

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

greenfield and new structure

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

greenfield and new structure

>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

greenfield and new structure

. -Gillian From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of John Sgammato Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 6:26 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: greenfield and new structure I just started a new job at a software startup. I

greenfield and new structure

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 wrote: > > I just started a new job at a software startup. I have basically a carte > blanche to

greenfield and new structure

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,

greenfield and new structure

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

greenfield and new structure

I just started a new job at a software startup. I have basically a *carte blanche* to build an awesome doc system. The existing doc is mostly in DITA xml, but not yet in FM. I have TCS4 and DITA-FMx. I plan to go Structured. First deliverables will be PDFs, but I have flexibility after that. I