Formatting Structured Documents

3-day course

Formatting Structured Documents covers the basics of formatting structured FrameMaker documents. It introduces the concept of a template and explains how to create new templates and how to use existing templates. It introduces paragraph and character formats and catalogs as well as master and reference pages. It presents these techniques for use both in setting up automatic formatting and in overriding format rules. The course is intended for application developers responsible for structured templates and EDDs as well as authors and editors who occasionally need to override automatic formatting.

Prerequisite: good working knowledge of the structured FrameMaker authoring environment (provided by Authoring Structured Documents)

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