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)
Topics include:
- Paragraph and character styles
- Auto-numbering
- Master and reference pages
- Page layout and running headers and footers
- Text flows
- Table layout
- Anchored frames
- Footnotes
- Text insets
- Conditional text
- Cross-reference formats
- Tables of contents and generated lists
- Index markers and indexes
- Creation and use of templates