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Structured FrameMaker 7.2

(Three-day workshop)

Date(s): Mar 26-28 | Jul 23-25

Instructor(s): Karl Hill


Description
This intensive hands-on Adobe FrameMaker structured authoring course is designed to get you up to speed with professional XML structured document creation and repurposing.


Intended Audience:
This course is a must-have for those who must create, edit, re-use and publish information stored as XML; and those who are producing manuals, user guides, maintenance manuals, and reference documentation in a variety of media. You should be familiar with the Windows operating system and have experience with unstructured Adobe FrameMaker.


Topics Include:

 
  • Lesson 1: Working with Structured Documents
    • About Structured Authoring
    • Structured features
    • Setting up for Structured Documents
    • Setting up the application and workspace
    • Working with the Structured window
    • Selecting elements
    • Working with the Element Catalog
    • Structured FrameMaker terms

  • Lesson 2: Editing Structure
    • Manipulating elements
    • Inserting elements and adding text
    • Adding a list element
    • Importing a Structured Flow
    • Importing Structured text
    • Moving elements
    • Wrapping and unwrapping elements
    • Merging, splitting and changing elements

  • Lesson 3: Attributes
    • Working with attributes
    • Changing attribute display
    • Choosing attribute values
    • Changing a string value
    • Changing a choice attribute
    • Inserting new elements and attributes
    • Prompting for attribute values
    • Recognizing and correcting attributes with errors

  • Lesson 4: Validation
    • Validating a document's structure
    • Correcting attribute errors
    • Importing a structured document
    • Fixing validation errors
    • Correcting by nudging and unwrapping
    • Special cases for elements and attributes

  • Lesson 5: Advanced Structure
    • Element keyboard shortcuts
    • Inserting elements
    • Inserting elements using shortcuts
    • Unstructured document conversion
    • Importing element definitions into an unstructured document
    • Applying a conversion table
    • Converting from Structured FrameMaker to XML or SGML
    • Converting a Structured FrameMaker document to XML

  • Lesson 6: Structured Templates
    • Creating structured documents
    • Creating a new structured document with importing
    • Creating a new structured document with Save As
    • Creating a new structured document with a format template and EDD
    • Extracting an EDD from a Structured FrameMaker document
  • Lesson 7: Structured Books
    • Marking text for an index
    • Inserting index elements
    • Modifying existing index elements
    • Working with tables of contents and indexes in a structured book
    • Adding a table of contents and index
    • Formatting a table of contents and index using a template
    • Finalizing the book structure
  • Lesson 8: XML Import, Export, and more
    • Application setup for Structured Authoring
    • Creating read/write rules
    • Enabling namespaces
    • Document schemas
    • Reading XML documents
    • Reading XML fragments
    • Structured Authoring
    • Writing an XML instance
    • XSL stylesheets and CSS stylesheets
    • Working with an XML Schema
  • Lesson 9: Using DITA
    • Creating a DITA map
    • Creating and working with DITA topics
    • Creating and working with DITA tasks
    • Creating and working with DITA references
    • Generating FrameMaker documents from DITA maps
    • Building FrameMaker books from DITA maps
    • Publishing DITA documents

To learn more about nSight training programs and for assistance, please contact our Training department at 781-273-6300 or Training@nSightWorks.com.

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