Hi everyone...I am fairly new to structured framemaker and spent the last week reading every piece of information I could on the subject.
I've been given the task here at work of taking some unstructured framemaker documents and structure them using MIL-STD 40051C as a guide.
If someone could please give me some help on this....I don't even know where to begin. Information overload. I have a DTD provided to me, as well as a folder containing XSL stylesheets for what seems like nearly every tag and a boilerplate folder.
Some of the links for my source material can be found here:
https://pubsweb.redstone.army.mil/DTD-FOSI/40051C-AMCOM.html
http://www.asrl.com/tmconstr.htm
So far I have imported the DTD to framemaker and saved as an EDD. Everything seems to be fine there. As far as the next step, I really have no idea.
I presume that if I wanted to build, lets say, a cover page...I would refer to the standard and build a page using the tags described.
I have given this a try and all I get is a tree structure with no formatting. How am I supposed to link to a stylesheet in Framemaker? What's more...there are about 50 styles in the folder I was provided so how do I know which one I am supposed to refer to?
Basically this is a huge scope of an effort that I am just getting my feet wet in, so if someone who is familiar can PLEASE give me some initial guidance it would be sincerely appreciated. I can't even find any documentation for this stuff on the web so this is my only hope.
Thanks very much
- Doug