Re: questions re Structured FM7.2 to FM11

Tino's instructions are wonderful, but I wanted to clarify one portion…In your structapps.fm, you define the file paths for all necessary files. All files except the DTD itself are genuine FrameMaker files.First, you should make sure that the structapps.fm is of the newest version. Create a new

questions re Structured FM7.2 to FM11

Tino's instructions are wonderful, but I wanted to clarify one portion? > In your structapps.fm, you define the file paths for all necessary files. All > files except the DTD itself are genuine FrameMaker files. > First, you should make sure that the structapps.fm is of the newest version. >

questions re Structured FM7.2 to FM11

Background: My company recently purchased FM11 and after using FM7.2 forever, I'm now learning my way around FM11 one-day-at-a-time. I had created structured FM7.2 files and was working on round-tripping them to-XML-and-back several years ago, when we were overtaken by events and I never did get

Re: questions re Structured FM7.2 to FM11

Hi Cheryl,You'll need to validate your EDD (shouldn't be too tough) and recreate a StructApp for Fm11 based upon what you had for Fm7.Again, shouldn't be too tough to recreate your environment. Fm11 includes a StructApp designer, and other details for the improvements to Fm11 (about 50% of the

Re: questions re Structured FM7.2 to FM11

Hi Cheryl... In general, your FM7.2 structure app should basically work with FM11 .. what is happening to make you think it's not? ...scott On 10/24/13 9:52 AM, dwyer...@verizon.net wrote: Background: My company recently purchased FM11 and after using FM7.2 forever, I'm now learning my

Re: Re: questions re Structured FM7.2 to FM11

Thanks, Tino--I appreciate the 'refresher course' on Structured FM, as it was 2007 when I created all the old XML files for FM7.2. I'll be downloading and reading manuals for a bit before I jump in feet first now! I looked at a sample DITA EDD in FM11 and compared it to my old EDD--the names were

Re: questions re Structured FM7.2 to FM11

It sounds like you're changing structure models (some XML model before, and now to DITA)If that's the case, you'll need to convert the current content to DITA, likely using XSLT, and likely using Scott P, Rick Q, or another expert. -MattMatt R. Sullivanco-authorPublishing Fundamentals:

Re: questions re Structured FM7.2 to FM11

You might also want to check out the very helpful video on using the news (as of FM9) user interface: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/tips-and-tricks-for-technical-communicators-to-maximize-productivity/getting-started-with-the-new-framemaker-9-user-interface/ On 10/24/2013 11:52 AM,

Re: questions re Structured FM7.2 to FM11

Hi Cheryl, as Matt and Scott have already mentioned, there are differences, but you should be able to work with your old files and get some result, at least. FrameMaker works with Unicode characters since FM 8. Some older settings for characters - iso characters in the r/w rules,

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questions re Structured FM7.2 to FM11

Hi Cheryl, You'll need to validate your EDD (shouldn't be too tough) and recreate a StructApp for Fm11 based upon what you had for Fm7. Again, shouldn't be too tough to recreate your environment. Fm11 includes a StructApp designer, and other details for the improvements to Fm11 (about 50% of

questions re Structured FM7.2 to FM11

Hi Cheryl... In general, your FM7.2 structure app should basically work with FM11 .. what is happening to make you think it's not? ...scott On 10/24/13 9:52 AM, dwyercl2 at verizon.net wrote: > > Background: My company recently purchased FM11 and after using FM7.2 > forever, I'm now learning

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questions re Structured FM7.2 to FM11

It sounds like you're changing structure models (some XML model before, and now to DITA) If that's the case, you'll need to convert the current content to DITA, likely using XSLT, and likely using Scott P, Rick Q, or another expert. -Matt Matt R. Sullivan co-author Publishing Fundamentals:

questions re Structured FM7.2 to FM11

You might also want to check out the very helpful video on using the news (as of FM9) user interface: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/tips-and-tricks-for-technical-communicators-to-maximize-productivity/getting-started-with-the-new-framemaker-9-user-interface/ On 10/24/2013 11:52 AM, dwyercl2 at

questions re Structured FM7.2 to FM11

Hi Cheryl, as Matt and Scott have already mentioned, there are differences, but you should be able to work with your old files and get some result, at least. FrameMaker works with Unicode characters since FM 8. Some older settings for characters - iso characters in the r/w rules,