Re: wrapping DITA steps in tables

2014-10-21 Thread Scott Prentice
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

Re: wrapping DITA steps in tables

2014-10-21 Thread Jang F.M. Graat
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

Re: wrapping DITA steps in tables

2014-10-21 Thread Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp
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

Re: wrapping DITA steps in tables

2014-10-21 Thread Scott Prentice
Nice .. very cool. Thanks Wim! ...scott Sent from my phone. Please excuse any typos or unexpected brevity. On Oct 21, 2014, at 1:40 PM, Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp w...@idtp.eu wrote: Hi Rebecca, interesting question. Theoretically it should be possible to 'translate’ the steps element

RE: wrapping DITA steps in tables

2014-10-21 Thread Rebecca Officer
, 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