Who should attend this Adobe Framemaker course?
This specialist course is aimed at
personnel responsible for the development of structured templates using FrameMaker 7 and at
personnel responsible for implementing a full SGML or XML system in the workplace. The course
provides a thorough introduction to the process of defining structure in an Element Defnition
Document using FrameMaker 7.
How long is this Adobe Framemaker course?
2
Days
What are the benefits of attending this course?
The course will give you the
skills necessary to produce structured templates based upon an EDD or SGML/XML DTD. Through a series
of practical exercises, you will learn how to define elements and attributes, how to specify
formatting for elements and attributes according to structural context and how to define book
elements for the preparation of structured books comprising multiple documents and including a Table
of Contents and an Index. You will also learn how to create a Conversion Table to automatically add
structure to unstructured documents.
Course Outline
Getting Started
- Understanding the purpose and use of the
element definition document (EDD)
- Understand document analysis
- Become familiar with
the overall organisation of an EDD
- Identify ways to create an initial
EDD
- Identifying basic types of elements
- Identifying parts of an element
definition
Specifying an element tag and type
- Review the purpose of
preliminary element parts: tag, comments, type, and valid highest level
- Inserting an Element
element
- Typing the element tag
- Inserting the Comments element
- Changing the
formatting of Comments elements
- Selecting the type of element
- Specifying that an
element is valid if it occurs as the highest-level element in a flow
Defining general
rules for containers and footnotes
- Writing a General Rule for Container elements and
Footnote elements
- Using occurrence indicators and connectors in a General Rule
- Using
content symbols and parentheses in a General Rule
- Learning the default General Rule for
Container and Footnote elements
- Importing the EDD into a structured template
- Testing
element definitions in the structured template
Defining general rules for
tables
- Writing a General Rule for a Table element
- Writing a General Rule for
table tiĂle, table heading, table body, table footing, table row, table cell
- Learning
default General Rules for tables and table parts
- Learning restrictions on General Rules for
Table and table part elements
Inclusions and exclusions
- Specifying the use
of an Inclusion
- Defining the included element
- Specifying the Exclusion of an
element
Auto insertions
- Specifying autoinserted child
elements
- Specifying autoinserted nested child elements
Formatting tables and
defining the initial structure pattern
- Specifying the initial structure pattern for
Table and Table Part elements
- Specifying the initial table format for a Table
element
Formatting object elements
- Defining a Cross-reference type
element
- Specifiying the initial object format of a Cross-reference element
- Defining
an equation type element
- Specifying the initial object format of an Equation
element
- Defining a graphic type element
- Specifying the initial object format of a
Graphic element
- Defining a marker type element
- Specifying the initial object format
of a Marker element
- Defining a system variable type element
- Specifying the system
variable format rule
Defining attributes
- Review the uses of
attributes
- Review the basic types of attributes and their parts
- Specifying the
attribute name and type
- Indicating whether the attribute is optional or
required
- Defining read only and hidden attributes
- Defining a range of values for
attributes of numeric types (integer, integers, real, reals)
- Defining a list of choices for
an attribute of type choice
- Specifying a default for optional attributes
Rules
for formatting text
- Define text format rules and their parts
- Specify an element
paragraph format tag
- Write an all contexts rule with if, elseif and else
clauses
- Write a level rule with if, elseif and else clauses
- Refering to a paragraph
format tag and a character format tag
- Individual paragraph and text-range
properties
- Formatting change list tag
- Analysing syntax for naming ancestors,
siblings and attribute values
- Defining subrules and multiple rules
- Writing a context
label
- Defining a format change list
First and last paragraph
rules
- Specifying first paragraph rules for formatting
- Specifying last paragraph
rules for formatting
Prefix and suffix rules
- Defining a prefix and a
suffix
- Specifying prefix rules and suffix rules using a fixed text string
- Specifying
prefix rules and suffix rules referring to attribute values
- Specifying formatting for
prefixes and suffixes
Elements for structuring books
- Defining an element
for the book
- Defining elements for generated files within the book
- Creating a
structured book
- Adding files to the structured book
- Generating and formatting a
Table of Contents
- Generating and formatting an Index
- Wrapping generated files into
elements of the structured book
Automatically adding structure to unstructured
documents
- Learning conversion table syntax
- Generating a new conversion
table
- Learn how to create a conversion table from scratch
- Structuring an
unstructured document
- Structuring a group of unstructured files
- Structuring an
unstructured book
